You can use the settings in
Tools > Options > Text Editor > Micro Focus COBOL and on the
Advanced page to configure some additional features such as the formatting or some of the tooltips.
Advanced
- Copybook extensions
- Specifies the file extensions that are recognized as copybook files. Separate the extensions by a comma.
Note: To ensure the file extensions will be recognized as COBOL copybooks, you also need to add them to your project properties (type
copyext(ext1,ext2) in
Additional Directives on the
COBOL page in your project's properties).
- Debug tooltip style for OCCURS items
- Specifies what information should be displayed by the debug tooltip for subscripted OCCURS items.
- Expandable tooltip
- Choose this if you wish the tooltip to display the elements of arrays.
- Value of expression
- Choose this if you wish the tooltip to display the value of the current expression.
- Note: You can switch between the two styles of the tooltip in the editor. To do this, press and hold
Ctrl and hover over the data item to display the alternative tooltip.
- Enable expanded copybook view
- Enables support for showing copybooks in an open source file. It is not possible to change this setting while debugging.
- Enable quoted syntax IntelliSense
- Enables IntelliSense support for code that uses the old quoted syntax of the .NET COBOL language.
- Find All References scope
- Enables you to configure whether
Find All References searches only in the current project or, only for managed COBOL, in all managed COBOL projects within your solution. See
General Visual Studio IDE Issues for information about the limitations when using
Find All References.
- Maintain expanded copybook view state
- Enables you to specify whether the state of the expanded copybook view should be preserved between closing and reopening a file or the project.
Error Reporting
- Background syntax check timeout
- Specifies the response time (in seconds) after which the background parse is aborted.
- Display error by program name
- When set to
True, the
File column in the
Error List window displays the name of the program in error - for example:
Program1.cbl[copy1.cpy]. When set to
False, the
File column displays the name of the resource in error - for example,
copy1.cpy.
- Enable background syntax checking
- Enables automatic syntax checking of the code as you type.
Generally, it is recommend that you leave Background Syntax Checking turned on as a number of IDE features rely on it and are not available when it is disabled. You might consider turning it off only when editing exceptionally large files. See
Known Issues and Restrictions for more information about which IDE features are not available in that scenario.
- Enable DB2 background syntax checking
- Enables DB2 syntax checking during background compile.
- Enable OpenSQL background syntax checking
- Enables OpenSQL background syntax checking to a specified level.
- Enable SQL Option background syntax checking
- Enables SQL background syntax checking to a specified level.
