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General Product Options

You can use the General page in Tools > Options > Micro Focus to set general options for this product.

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COBOL Project Upgrade

Check Additional Directives for project properties

Micro Focus recommends you always use the project's properties rather than the Additional directives field on the COBOL tab in the properties to set Compiler directives that have an IDE equivalent.

If a file in your project has properties that differ from the ones set in the project's properties, the file properties take precedence over the project's properties but not over any directives specified in Additional directives that have an IDE equivalent. This might result in receiving unexpected build issues at build time.

To help work around such issues, Visual COBOL you to convert any directives specified in Additional directives to their project's properties equivalents. With the Check Additional Directives for project properties option checked, when you open a solution Visual COBOL reviews all directives specified as Additional directives for the projects in the solution. If there are directives that have IDE equivalents, you receive an Update Project Properties dialog box that recommends converting those directives to project's properties.

Micro Focus Code Analysis

Enable Code Analysis: You can use this checkbox to enable or disable the Code Analysis functionality (the context menu commands and the Micro Focus Code Analysis manager) in the IDE. You must restart the IDE in order to apply the change.