Offline_Browsing and editing Compuware mainframe project resources

Once the Compuware mainframe project is set up, you can browse and edit resources. For online projects, browsing and editing resources creates a temporary locally cached copy of the source. For offline projects, resources are already local to the workstation.

To browse and edit Compuware mainframe project resources

In Project Explorer, right-click a resource in Project Explorer and do one of the following:

• To open the resource in the current default editor, select Open. Alternatively, double-click the resource to open it.
• To select the editor to open the resource with, select Open with>editor name. Selecting Other opens the Editor Selection dialog box where you can select from all available editors.
  
  Any of the following may occur:

• When editing an online project resource that is in browse mode, a message asks whether to make the resource writable. Select Yes, No, or Yes, Don't Ask Again.
• To enable or disable this message, from the Windows menu, select Preferences. The Preferences dialog box appears. Select Compuware>Mainframe Projects and then select or clear the Ask me before changing online project resources from read-only to writable check box.
• When editing a resource in an online project, a locked indicator appears on the resource's icon (for example, ) to indicate that the resource is in use/has an enqueue lock.
• When opening a program in Topaz COBOL Editor or Topaz PL/I Editor from an online project, a message appears asking whether to download the copybooks used in the program. Click Yes or No. If you click No, copybooks are not downloaded. If you click Yes, copybooks are downloaded. However, if any of the following occur, a message appears. Click the link within the message to create a concatenation list.
• No copybook concatenation list is defined.
• A copybook dataset is not found.
• The concatenation list contains a deleted or migrated dataset.