When you open a file in the System z® LPEX Editor or COBOL Editor an
outline of the file opens in the Outline view.
About this task
When opening a file, the Outline view provides toolbar items
and a drop-down menu for filtering the parts of a program. From this
view, you can show or hide different parts of the program according
to their division, expand and collapse the outline, and show or hide
parts of the program according to their name.
- Sorts sibling nodes in the outline in ascending order by name.
- Hides nested programs in the outline view.
- Hides on-units in the outline view.
- Hides labels in the outline view.
- Hides subordinate data items in the outline so that only level
1 data items are shown.
- Shows the contents of the procedure division in the outline, including
sections and paragraphs in the procedure division. The identification
division, data division, and environment division are hidden.
- Shows a list of functions to perform on the Outline view data.
- Expand outline
- Select + Expand Outline to expand the
selected program section.
- Collapse outline
- Select - Collapse Outline to collapse the
selected program section.
- Filters
- Select Filter to define a search argument
to limit the program data items shown based on the name value specified
as the search argument. You can use a wildcard to narrow or broaden
the search scope.
- Link with editors
- If enabled, when you place the cursor on a line in the editor,
the Outline view expands to display the corresponding node.