Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.5

Macro editor view

The macro editor view enables you to enter, modify, delete lines in a generated macro file. It offers the standard editing functions and features of LPEX Editor (program parsing, view filtering...) and with a system of colors, it enables you to clearly identify lines and tags in the macrostructure.

The Macro editor view is accessible from the Navigation view in the Design perspective where the generated macros (.cblgen files) are saved. A right-click on a MacroName.cblgen file and Open with > PDP Macro editor (batch or dialog model) opens the PDP Macro editor which consists of an editor view and of a macrostructure tags tree tab. This page is presenting the editor view which looks like the following one (indicated by the red arrow in figure 1):

Figure 1: PDP macro editor (the red arrow points at the macro editor view)

The lines in the macro code are identified by different colors:

All these colors can be modified in a wizard accessible via Window > Preferences > LPEX editor > Parser > Parser styles.

A context menu enables you to show up the tags or to hide them, you just have to right-click in the macro editor and select Macrostructure > Filter view > With tags or Without tags.

The editor instantly displays all updates performed in the Macrostructure tags tree view and when you select a tag in the tree, the item selected is highlighted in the macro editor.

Related tasks
Modifying the macro editor preferences

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