Viewing the dependencies of a program
You can determine the dependencies that a certain COBOL, PL/I, or Assembler program has.
Before you begin
About this task
You can perform a show dependencies operation on the following resource types:
- COBOL and PL/I source files in a local z/OS® project on Windows platforms.
- COBOL source files in a local z/OS project on Linux® platforms.
- COBOL, PL/I, and Assembler source files in a partitioned data set in an MVS™ subproject or on a remote system.
If your program depends on a file that cannot be found, the file is simply ignored (skipped
without warning). To ensure that files are not skipped, run a local syntax check on your program; if
the syntax check does not produce any errors, all the dependencies can be located, and no files are
skipped.
Limitations:
- Local syntax check is deprecated. This action is available only on Windows.
- Local syntax checking does not support shift-out-shift-in (SOSI) sources. The importer that is used to do the local syntax check supports only UTF-8 encoding. Translating CP-930 and other SOSI sources into UTF-8 alters the column locations for some characters, and this alteration results in unexpected errors.
The Show Dependencies action is not supported for sequential data sets.
IBM® Developer for z/OS does not support
the following functions on Linux and macOS: bidirectional
enablement with remote debugging, workstation-based debugging, local COBOL or PL/I builds, local
preprocessors for PL/I files, local syntax check, and show dependencies for PL/I files.
Procedure
- To check the dependencies of a program, right-click the program and click Show Dependencies.
- To check the dependencies of all programs in a local project, right-click the project name and click Show Dependencies.
Results
- Open the job output to view the error messages and return codes.
- Open the property group that is associated with the file to view the build properties currently in use.