Generating applications with the COBOL Software Development Kit
If you generate a COBOL Program or COBOL Copybook, you obtain COBOL code. If you generate a Source Code, you obtain a code other than a COBOL code.
Before you begin
Procedure
You can generate instances in different ways:
- Right-click a COBOL Program, COBOL Copybook, or Source Code in the Design Explorer view. Select Generate, and Generate COBOL Code for a COBOL Program or COBOL Copybook, or Generate Source Code for a Source Code.
- Click
in the Design view of the instance. To be able to do so, you must have previously generated the instance a first time and opened its code in the PDP COBOL editor.
Results
A progress information message box is displayed until the generation is complete.
The generation produces a file under
the instance in the Design Explorer view:
- A .cbl file for a COBOL Program,
- A .cpy file for a COBOL Copybook,
- A file whose extension is indicated in the called Skeleton or is the name of the called Skeleton, for a Source Code.
The generation replaces all the properties with their values. Furthermore, if Static Micropatterns have been inserted in the code, they are replaced with the corresponding code lines, if these Static Micropatterns have been defined and described.