AIX COBOL Editors

Overview

Rational® Developer for Power allows you to use any text editor for your COBOL source files and provides the following editors for specialized purposes:
AIX COBOL Remote Systems LPEX editor
LPEX is an extensible editor framework that can be enhanced by plugin providers and users. Rational Developer for Power extends the base LPEX editor to provide functions that are particularly useful as you develop COBOL programs for the Power® platform. This enhanced version of LPEX is called the Remote Systems LPEX Editor.
Eclipse-based COBOL editor
The COBOL Editor is an Eclipse-based editor that provides the familiarity and features of other Eclipse-based editors (such as for C++ and Java™ languages) while also providing language-specific enhancements such as syntax highlighting, refactoring, and source actions.

Getting started

The following topics help you get started with the language editors provided withRational Developer for Power:

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