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.
- 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 is identical, except that in the wizard, only this Data
Structure is selected by default.
Results
This generation creates a file which contains the description
of a Data Structure. This description, which is adapted to your choices
in the generation wizard, 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