The BS2IDE Main Preference page
Window > Preferences > BS2000 Remote IDE
offers the possibility to configure BS2IDE:
- openFT
- CCS
For further configuration see:
- Internal Tracing
- Editor configuration
openFT
If openFT has been installed before BS2IDE (recommended) then the
installation path is found automatically.
To specify the openFT installation path manually, uncheck the Detect openFT path automatically checkbox.
Coded Character Set (CCS)
Default transfer CCS specifies the coded character set to be implicitly used during file transfer
for files without defined CCS; Default BS2000 CCS will be used for the creation of new
files on BS2000, see Creating new BS2000 files.
Disconnect on exit
Disconnect on exit option enable the mechanism which check all active connections with BS2000 hosts.
Performs disconnect action before Eclipse application closes. (Default enabled)
Internal Tracing
For trouble shooting it is possible to enable internal tracing via
Window > Preferences > BS2000 Remote IDE > Internal Tracing:
.
You can configure the internal tracing as follows:
- Enable internal tracing: enable or disable internal tracing by setting or resetting the checkbox
- Tracing directory: assign a directory where the trace files shall be written to. Default is the user's
Temp directory. For every Eclipse session a sub directory bs2ide-trc.<time>
is created containing the current trace files.
- Delete option: choose a mode for delete automatically the trace files created: "Never delete trace files"(default)
or "Delete trace files older than ..."
- Trace level: choose the importance of the trace records to be written.
- Don't write in HTML format: setting the checkbox writes the internal tracing to simple text files. Resetting the
checkbox writes the internal tracing to HTML files (default).
- Tracing function groups: select one or more function group you want to trace.
The trace files written by the tracing functionality are intended to be evaluated by the BS2IDE developers for diagnostic reasons.
Editor configuration
BS2IDE provides syntax-highlighting editors for ASSEMBH and for SDF command procedures. For configuration see
Window > Preferences > BS2000 Remote IDE > ASSEMBH Source Editor and
Window > Preferences > BS2000 Remote IDE > SDF Procedure Editor.
If you like to have syntax highlighting editors for certain other programming languages you need to install
appropriate plug-ins providing such editors.
For C/C++ syntax highlighting it is recommended to install Eclipse CDT
(if not already installed), see
C/C++ Development User Guide.
A C/C++ Editor is then available even if no compiler tool chain have been installed.
For COBOL we recommend using the P3/COBOL Editor for BS2IDE by
EasiRun which has been optimized for BS2IDE to support more
functionality than just syntax highlighting.