- Start 
                  		  Enterprise Developer and open a project that contains the COBOL program(s) on which you want to base a record layout file. 
                  		
               
- On the 
                  		  Enterprise Developer project COBOL properties page, check 
                  		  Compile for debugging; then save the project. By default, 
                  			 Enterprise Developer automatically builds the project, and automatically generates an 
                  			 .idy file for each program in the project. 
                  		
               
Note: Enterprise Developer writes 
               		.idy files to the output directory specified in your project properties.