Using Quick Actions (Light Bulbs) in COBOL

Quick Actions (also known as light bulbs, light bulb) is a feature of the Visual Studio editor. It enables you to quickly resolve some issues in your code, implement constructs or execute other actions.

Note: In order for the light bulbs feature to work, you must have background parsing turned on in the IDE (enabled by default).

The following Quick Action fixes are available for COBOL:

Parent topic: Working with the Editor
Related concepts
Making the Most of The COBOL Editor
Configuring the Editor
Inserting and removing line numbers (Renumber and Unnumber)
Related reference
COBQA0001: Name can be simplified
COBQA0002 - Use portable COBOL syntax instead
COBQA0003 - Extract selected code to a new copybook
Quick Actions
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Using IntelliSense to Write COBOL Code Efficiently
Inserting Code Snippets
Overriding the Members of an Inherited Class
Tips on building COBOL
Tips on Debugging COBOL