Preferences on the Pacbase patterns

In this wizard, you can change the colors of the generated lines and of the Macro lines.

Generated code color settings
Click the color rectangles that represent the foreground and background colors of the Pacbase generated lines, when they are viewed through the PDP COBOL editor.

Clicking the color rectangles opens a palette where you can select colors.

Macro color settings
Click the color rectangles that represent the foreground and background colors of the Pacbase Macro lines in the generated program, when these lines are viewed through the PDP COBOL editor.

Clicking the color rectangles opens a palette where you can select colors.

Function color settings
With this option, you can differentiate the colors of the start and end tags of the Pacbase functions and subfunctions in the specific code and the code from the Macros. This option applies to the PDP COBOL editor.

If this option is selected, you can click the color rectangles that represent the text color of the tags. In the palette that opens, you can select a new color. Moreover, you can specify whether the text is to be displayed in bold.

If this option is not selected, the tags are displayed like the other lines.

COBOL comparison
The following two preferences filter the differences that are displayed in the COBOL compare editor of Rational® Developer for System z® and Rational Developer for AIX® and Linux. They apply when the compare editor opens but they can be modified for each comparison from the editor contextual menu.
  • Ignore comments: This option only applies to the display of the migration differences. If it is selected (default value), the differences in the comments are not flagged. If you change the selection of this option in the compare editor, you must close and open the editor again to take the modification into account. Moreover, this modification is saved and changes the default preference.
  • Ignore EXIT: If this option is selected (default value), the differences in the presence or absence of the EXIT statements after the tags are not flagged in the compare editor. Changing the selection of this option in the compare editor immediately modifies the display of the differences. However, it does not modify the default preference.
COBOL syntax for type 3 (UNIX, Windows) certified as compatible with IBM COBOL for AIX syntax
This option applies to the COBOL files that were generated with a type 3: UNIX, Windows and transformed by the transform.txt file upon the migration to become compatible with the IBM® compiler.

You must select this option to restore the syntactic control of their COBOL code.


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