Specify the Project Properties

To specify the project properties:

  1. In Solution Explorer, double-click the Properties folder, and click the COBOL tab.
  2. Set Source Format to Fixed.
  3. Set COBOL dialect to Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.
  4. Set Character set to ASCII.
  5. On the Debug tab, select JCL from the drop down list for Active Settings.
  6. Press Ctrl+S to save the changes in the project properties.