Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.5

Copybook generation wizard

This wizard enables you to generate the COBOL description (COPY book) of one or more Data Structures in a file. A single Data Structure can be used to generate several different descriptions, each one adapted to a particular need in the programs. (i.e. in FILE SECTION or WORKING-STORAGE SECTION, taking the internal and input formats into account). This file is then available for a subsequent insertion in a Program, through the use of the COPY clause. The file is created in the Navigator view. To see its content, you must right-click on it and choose Open with > System z LPEX editor.

Selected Data Structures
If you have requested the Copybook generation from the location or the entity level, all the Data Structures are selected by default, whereas if you have requested the generation from a given Data Structure, only this Data Structure is selected by default.

You are free to check or clear the Data Structure(s) you want.

Destination
This field must contain the entire path to the destination file which will contain the generated COBOL descriptions of the selected Data Structure(s).

This file must have a .cpy extension. If you have launched the Copybook generation wizard from a selected Data Structure, the filename defaults to the name of this Data Structure. On the other hand, if you have launched the wizard from a location or the Data Structure entity level, the filename defaults to the first Data Structure of the location.

The destination file is created in the Navigator view. By default, it is created in the project and package which already holds the corresponding Data Structure(s).


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