PROJECTS PAGE

COBOL Program Files List Box:
Select the drive where your programs/copy files reside.

Select the directory where your programs/copy files reside.

Hi-light all your programs/copy files and click on the "Prepare" button to start the pre-processor. The Pre-Processor will put changed version of your files in the Repository Directory as listed in the SETUP SCREEN.

Double clicking on a file in the File-list box will open the file using the default editor.

Prepare Button:
Click on the "Prepare" button to prepare all the selected files in the Program Files list box.

Edit Button:
Click on the "Edit" button to open a source COBOL file using the default editor

Launch DataGen Button:
Click on the Launch DataGen button to launch the special utility for generation of stub-programs for FD and WS definitions.

Prepared Files List Box:
The current project"s prepared files are listed in the right hand list box.

Double clicking on a file in the list box will open the file using default editor.

Clear Button:
Deletes all files in the Repository Directory.

Edit Button:
Click on the "Edit" button to open a prepared file from the Prepared Files List Box using the default editor

Prepared Files Format:
COBOL Translation Toolkit prepares COBOL modules by doing the following:

1. Remove all non-required tabs / spaces, characters in columns 1- 6 and columns 72 onwards (depending on your COBOL Columns Settings.
2. Replace ( and ) characters with '{' and '}' characters respectively.
3. Replace '-' character with '_' character in all but where used as an negative sign.
4. Replace '.' character with ' \.' characters in all but where used as an decimal sign.
5. Quote the Picture elements (e.g. 01 var1 pic 99. will be translated to 01 var1 pic "99" \.)
6. Replace comment sign '*' at column 7 with '// ' characters.
7. USE ';;' internally to represent comments - parser module will not pick these up.