You can select variable definitions from imported source
code when adding information sources and application data in a capture
specification.
About this task
When adding a variable data value to a capture predicate,
or when adding an information source to a capture specification, rather
than adding the name and format of the variable definition manually,
you can import your variable definition from a COBOL copybook containing
a data definition.
Procedure
- Click Select from imported language structure. The Choose Source Code window opens. Select
your required language, choose a language structure file and click OK.
Note that there is a restriction
on the length of the file name. You can import language structures
only from a file with a name less than 9 characters, excluding any
suffix. 
After the editor has loaded the language structure,
it displays any errors and warnings discovered in the language structure.
These DFHPI-prefixed messages are documented as CICS messages and
are shared with the CICS Web services assistant and the CICS XML assistant.
If errors occur, the language structure cannot be used and the editor
returns to the previous panel. If warnings occur, they are displayed.
Click OK.
If there are no errors, the Language
Structure window is displayed. This window contains a tree
showing the language structure. Items are indented in the tree if
they are contained by a parent item. Each item has a format, offset,
and length. The precision is shown for numeric items.
- Click the data item that you want to import in the displayed
tree of data items.
- Click OK. The format
information is filled in from the imported data item in the Information
Source or Variable Data Value window.
Results
You have imported a variable data value. The next time you
click
Select from imported language structure,
the last language structure that you specified displays automatically.
If you want to import a value from a different language structure,
you can click
Change language structure in
the
Language Structure window to select another
language structure.