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# Advanced COBOL Editor

- Added support for parsing embedded SQL code
- Enhanced content assist to include data items declared in EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements (for example, SQLCA) and implicitly linked CICS® data structures (for example, DFHEIBLK).
- Added support for parsing embedded CICS code
- Added six IMS™ categories to the Snippets view
- Enabled open declarations, hover help, and other features for data items referenced in EXEC SQL and EXEC CICS statements.
- Added support for real-time syntax checking of CICS and SQL code embedded in COBOL programs
- Enhanced the navigation in the COBOL LPEX Editor to use the F3 key and hyperlinking
- Enhanced content assist to include information about variable declarations
- Limitation: Refactor operations are not atomic and cannot be undone.
- Limitation: The Open Perform Hierarchy operation will not be in sync if the source file is modified or closed.
- The grammar used for parsing embedded SQL in COBOL programs is not a complete DB2® for z/OS® grammar. Parsing embedded SQL using this limited grammar is optional and can be enabled on the preferences page LPEX Editor > System z® LPEX Editor > COBOL Parser > COBOL Annotations and Tools.

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