Preparing to use the COBOL import utility

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Before proceeding you need to reconfigure your project encyclopedia so as to activate the COBOL property set:

1 On the Tools menu, select Customize Method Support, and then click Encyclopedia Configuration.

2 In the Property Configuration dialog, click Advanced.

3 In the Configure Property Set dialog, select COBOL Types, and then click Add.

4 Click OK to save your changes and add COBOL property support to your project encyclopedia.

Next, you add the property COBOL Occurrences to your data element definition dialog and the properties Usage and Redefines to the data structure definition dialog.

5 On the Tools menu, click Customize User Properties > Edit USRPROPS.TXT (Encyclopedia).

6 Copy and paste the following code to your USRPROPS.TXT file.

DEFINITION "Data Element"
  {
  PROPERTY "COBOL Occurrences"
  { EDIT Text LENGTH 40 }
  }

DEFINITION "Data Structure"
  {
  PROPERTY "Usage"
  { EDIT Text LENGTH 40 }
  PROPERTY "Redefines"
  { EDIT Text LENGTH 40 }
  }

7 After saving the USRPROPS.TXT file, reopen your project encyclopedia for all of these changes to take affect.