Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.5

Outline view

The Outline view shows the program structure if you have opened a generated COBOL file with the pdp COBOL for System z™ LPEX Editor.

To see the content of this view, you must have generated a program. Then, in the Navigator view, right-click on the .cbl file, which contains the generated Cobol, and select Open withPdp Cobol System z LPEX Editor in the popup menu.

The Outline view displays a hierarchical tree containing nodes that correspond to the COBOL divisions, sections and nested program nodes. This view is linked to the editor area, Pac Design View and Generated Code Structure view.

It looks like this

In this view, you can:
  • Filter the parts of the COBOL program: you can show or hide different parts of the program according to their division. This makes it easier to focus on specific aspects of the COBOL program. To do so, click the toolbar button available at the top of the view. These buttons toggle the contents of the view. click a button to activate the filter and click it again to restore the Outline view to its original state.
  • Hide parts of the program according to their name. To do so:
    1. Select Filters from the drop-down menu. The COBOL Element Filters window opens.
    2. Type a name pattern in the text-entry field. You can use the * and ? wildcard characters in the filter string. Separate multiple filter strings with commas.
    3. Click Ignore case to match strings in upper, lower, or mixed case. The Outline view hides any program elements that match the filter strings entered.
    4. Click OK.
    5. To show any of these filtered elements, select Filters again, delete the filter strings from the text entry field, and click OK.
  • Expand each node by selecting Expand outline from the drop-down menu. To collapse the Outline view to the nodes that are displayed when you first edit a COBOL program (the program, division, and nested program nodes), select the Collapse outline from the drop-down menu.
  • Disable the standard behavior according to which, when you place the cursor on a line in the editor, the Outline view expands to display the corresponding node. To disable this behavior, select Link With Editor from the drop-down menu. Now when you move the cursor in the editor, the outline view is not affected.
    Note: When you select a node in the outline view, the corresponding line in the editor is always shown. This action affects only the link from the editor to the outline view. It does not affect the link from the outline view to the editor.

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