operational excellence_mainframe program indentation tool
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Operational Excellence_Mainframe Program Indentation ToolTRANSCRIPT
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Mainframe Program Indentation ToolCategory
Operational Excellence
Title: Mainframe Program Indentation Tool
Introduction & Overview
This tool is developed for the purpose of code indentation and indentifying any missing scope terminators in the COBOL program developed on the mainframe platform. It increases the readability/understandability of the program which is very much desirable from the customer point of view.Process (How it works?)To run the tool, Just type INDENT (REXX Macro) at the command line and then press enter. It will automatically align various COBOL clauses such as PIC, TO, THRU etc. to the 40th Column in the source code and automatically insert new lines, if required.Benefits
This tool can be effectively used on the COBOL source code for the said purpose. It would really be helpful in increasing efficiency to the mainframe developer community having the underlying benefits:-1. Ease of Read - After running INDENT tool a program would be in readable format and it could be easily understood, which would help doing any analysis work for the future enhancements2. Scope of Reducing Error - It will give the warning message with line no. if any scope terminator is missing, which would help the developer to avoid any potential error with the scope terminators3. Increasing Efficiency - Since there is no need of manually doing indentation of code, so effectively productivity would be increasedTargeted Audience:
This tool would be really helpful for all mainframe developers who write new/modify COBOL/CICS/DB2 programsSubmitted By : [email protected] (Manjit Singh) Project : e-Pricer IW