Content Assist support for COBOL includes various enhancements and is now also available in JVM COBOL:
- Context sensitive proposal - Content Assist only shows proposal that are relevant for the position of the cursor in the code or for the type of project
- Enhanced proposal lists - lists include any relevant COBOL verbs, clauses and words, copybooks, code templates, data items and section and paragraph names
- Intelligent assistance with completing statements - when you have entered a COBOL verb, Content Assist shows proposals for the relevant clauses and identifiers that you can use to complete the statement.
- Automatic completion for items - Content Assist automatically inserts single suggestions in the code.
- Qualifying non-unique names - Content Assist qualifies data items whose names are not unique.
- Configuration preferences for Content Assist - enable you to configure what suggestions appear in the completion lists, whether suggestions are added in insert or overwrite mode, and the case of the inserted words.
- Code templates - code templates are now included in the Content Assist proposals.
