PI12672: Rational Developer for System z (RDz): RDz 8.5.1.1, COBOL Editor with Format action incorrectly formats the COBOL file

Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 5 (8.5.1.5) for 8.5.1
Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 7 (8.5.1.7) for 8.5.1
Rational Developer for System z Fix Pack 6 (8.5.1.6) for 8.5.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Rational Developer for System z (RDz): RDz 8.5.1.1, COBOL
  Editor with Format action incorrectly formats the COBOL file
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  Rational Developer for System z (RDz): 'Format Source Code'
  option in the 'Save Actions' for COBOL Editor incorrectly
  formats
  the COBOL file if executed while initial copybook download in
  progress. So, comment lines and Value clauses are corrupted
  because they are wrongly changed to lower or upper case.
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  Local fix:
  Do not use the 'Format Source code' option while the editor
  is still downloading the COBOL copybooks.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• While the Save Action > Format  does wait for the copybooks to
  get resolved before formatting the file content, it then doesn't
  wait for the initial document changes made before the save was
  invoked to also get resolved.  So in effect it is formatting the
  document as if it didn't have the extra lines of comments in
  it... which causes the alignment to go off.  The fix is to wait
  for the both the initial copybooks to be resolved and any
  unsaved changes to be processed by the parser before attempting
  to format the document.
  

Problem conclusion

• The Save Actions > Format behavior has been updated to wait for
  both the copy statements to get resolved as well as any interim
  file modifications to also get resolved and integrated into the
  language model prior to applying any formatting changes to the
  document.
  
  The problem listed in this APAR has been resolved with
  IBM Rational Developer for System z V8.5.1.5 Fix Pack which
  is available from the Recommended Fixes support download page:
  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2294&uid=swg27006335
  

Temporary fix

Comments

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL DEV FOR SY

• Fixed component ID

  5724T0700

Applicable component levels

• R851 PSY

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