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COBOL - Add support for Viewing program control flow for a COBOL file #376

Open FALLAI-Denis opened 5 months ago

FALLAI-Denis commented 5 months ago

Description of the enhancement requested

Would it be possible that IBM Z Open Editor has the functionality allowing to visualize the graph of appeal of paragraphs / sections as possible in IBM Developer for Z?

See Viewing program control flow for a COBOL file

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Until now we have used an extension of another publisher to obtain a graphic representation of a COBOL program. This publisher has decided to make this extension dependent on an extension of management of the COBOL source code which conflicts with IBM Z Open Editor. So we are faced with a choice:

We can understand that a free of charge solution like IBM Z Open Editor cannot offer the same features as a paid solution like IBM Developer for Z. To see if this kind of additional feature could be only accessible in the event of using a version with paid support for IBM Z Open Editor.

The functionality Viewing program data flow for a COBOL file would also be very interesting in IBM Z Open Editor ...

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Thanks.

FALLAI-Denis commented 5 months ago

Hi,

Failing to offer these functionalities natively in ZOE, is there a way to access the abstract syntactic tree of the program, or an equivalent structure, through an API exposed by ZOE, or by VS Code itself, which would perhaps allow us to develop ourselves an extension, or an interface to another extension such as Graphviz (dot) language support for Visual Studio Code?

Thanks.