COBOL - Do not impose an end of sentence period at the end of a copybook

[FALLAI-Denis]

Development environment used

• Z Open Editor version: 3.3.3
• Editor Platform
  • [X] Visual Studio Code
  • [ ] Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces
  • [ ] Eclipse Che
  • [ ] Standalone Theia
• Editor Platform Version: 1.81.1
• Operating System: Windows 10 22H2 x64
• Java Version: Java 17
• [ ] Related to RSE API?
  • RSE API Plugin version:
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• Logs attached: no

Problem Description

Syntactic analysis done on a COBOL (procedural) copybook requires the presence of a period at the end of the sequence of lines. This is an anomaly because a copybook just needs to be "well-formed" and there may be a simple sequence of instructions to include. There is no reason to require a COBOL sentence endpoint on the last statement/declaration in the copybook.

Observed behavior

To note :

• that the anomaly on the point is indicated twice
• that another anomaly appears at the start of the sequence

Use case of this copybook: