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Visual Studio Code – how to configure vs code for cobol

thanks in advance for ur help.
Im learning cobol, but i have so many problems with the formatting and error hilighting, im using BroadcomMFD.cobol-language-support extension, but always says that my variables aren’t inicialized and dont accept the >>SOURCE FORMAT FREE

Ive tried with other extensions and seeking extension configuration, but i dont know so good what should I do

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    broadcomMFD.cobol-language-support for Visual Studio Code, under Compatibility,

    The COBOL Language Support extension only supports IBM Enterprise COBOL. Other versions of COBOL are not supported.

    IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4, Language Reference (PDF download), Reference format, does not show any support for >>SOURCE FORMAT FREE.

    I suggest getting the IBM Enterprise COBOL manual and formatting your programs according to the required reference format.

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    For an extension that will work with bold "modern" and "common" COBOL and isn’t dialect specific you may want to use bitlang.gnucobol.

    Find more features in rechinformatica.rech-editor-cobol, which is mostly focused on modern COBOL (its README notes that fixed-form reference format will have issues).

    For an extension that supports multiple OpenText (previously MicroFocus) dialects and with more features, you can go with bitlang.cobol (that complains about any other extension that has "cobol" somewhere).
    An extension that may be used both alone and together with that is Micro-Focus-AMC.mfcobol, but that’s primarily useful if you have a recent version of its product installed.

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