From the Generate choice of the Design
explorer view, you can generate the COBOL description of one or
more Data Structure(s) in a file.
To generate the Copybooks of a Data Structure, you must:
- Either right-click on an open location and select . In the wizard which
opens up, all the Data Structures present in the location are selected by
default. You can leave them all selected or deselect some of them and fill
in the other fields of the wizard (A contextual help is available on this
wizard). Click Finish.
- Or right-click on a given Data Structure. The rest of the operations are
identical, except that in the wizard, only this Data Structure is selected
by default.
This generation creates a file which contains the description of a
Data Structure, adapted to your choices in the generation wizard. This description
is formatted as COBOL source language and is available for a subsequent insertion
in a program via a COPY clause. To see the
content of this file, you must right-click on it in the Navigator view
and choose