Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.5

Generating Copybooks

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 Generate > Copybook generation. 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 Open with > System z LPEX editor
Related reference
Copybook generation wizard

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