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Eclipse Editor Coding Assistance

This release includes various improvements in the Content Assist support for COBOL in the following areas:

  • Native COBOL - support is now available for OCCURS statements
  • Managed COBOL - suggestions are now available in the working storage section and in the following scenarios:
    • Arithmetic expressions in method arguments
    • Casting variables and some expressions
    • Creating arrays using the TABLE OF expression and indexers
    • Generics
    • Implements and inherits
    • Javadoc comments are now displayed (Eclipse)
    • Type name filtering in constructs and attributes
    • Managed type headers, method heathers and index headers.
    • Nested types
    • SIZE OF expressions
    • String concatenations
    • TYPE OF constructs
    • Unqualified members access - using the SELF:: or SUPER:: syntax
  • Support for float literals has been enhanced.
  • Suggestions are now available for more COBOL verbs such as TRY and RAISE (in managed COBOL) and EXAMINE, INSPECT, SEARCH, GO TO, INITIALIZE, INVOKE, and UNLOCK (in native COBOL).
  • There are new IDE configuration settings for inserting suggestions and for case handling.
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