isCOBOL IDE

Suppose you have 4 GUI controls as seen on the following screen, and you want the "Code" label and the code-entry-field to appear alone in one moment and the "Yes/No?" check-box with the combo-box to appear without the entry-field on a different... Read More

The isCOBOL IDE includes a text file comparison feature. In order to take advantage of this feature 1. Copy or link your text files to one of your project folders, unless they're already there 2. Select the two files that you want to compare by... Read More

From the isCOBOL IDE, in addition to set the encoding on project level, you have also to declare the property 'file.encoding' into the iscobol.properties that you find in the 'resources' folder of the project. Read More

Question: When I attempt to run my program nothing happens, but I notice the following error in the Error Log view: Message Plug-in ------------------------------ -------------- Unhandled event loop exception org... Read More

If you create a run configuration then you can specify the current working directory in the Working Directory field. If you leave the Working Directory field blank then the current working directory is set to the project folder. If you launch a... Read More

Question: By default, trace logs and data files are created in my project's output folder. How do I configure the IDE to put these and other files in separate project folders? Answer: When running or debugging the isCOBOL IDE sets the current... Read More

(This information applies to version 2010 R1 and later) After receiving new plugins from Veryant Support follow these 3 steps to install them into the isCOBOL IDE: 1. Under the isCOBOL IDE 2010 R1 installation folder change into the dropins folder... Read More

Whenever the Eclipse (or isCOBOL IDE) opens a workspace, it attempts to lock a specific portion of the .lock file in the workspace .metadata folder. If the file .metadata/.lock does not exist, then Eclipse creates and attempts to lock a portion of... Read More

isCOBOL IDE 2009 SP1 introduced a new feature called "Regenerate tagged areas only" which is enabled by default. The IDE reads generated .cbl files and preserves the code outside of the tagged areas. This means that you can modify the generated .cbl... Read More