Hello,
I have written an eclipse plugin to help set up our development environment in git. Part of that process is creating and populating a COBOL local project (which is also poorly named for searching in the create project wizard - it's called "Local Project" in the "Workstation COBOL or PL/I" folder.

When I create the eclipse project and add the nature, it doesn't show up in the "z/OS Projects" view until I restart IDz. I assume this is because there is a check on startup. Is there a way to refresh the view, so I don't need to restart IDz?

I am using something similar to the following:

public static final String COBOL_LOCAL_PROJECT_NATURE_ID = "com.ibm.ftt.ui.views.project.navigator.local";
public static final String[] COBOL_PROJECT_NATURES = new String[] { COBOL_LOCAL_PROJECT_NATURE_ID };
String projectName = "copybooks";
IWorkspaceRoot workspaceRoot = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot();
IProject project = workspaceRoot.getProject(projectName);
if (!project.exists()) {
    project.create(null);
}
if(!project.isOpen()) {
    project.open(null);
}
IProjectDescription description = project.getDescription();
description.setNatureIds(natures);
project.setDescription(description, null);
project.refreshLocal(IResource.DEPTH_INFINITE, null);
​

Thanks,

Adam Britt

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Adam Britt
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Hi Adam,

In IDz 15 we tried to clarify the "poorly named" wizard.  We got rid of the "Workstation COBOL or PL/I" entry in the New ... wizards list. We also renamed the Local Project entry to now be named Local z/OS Project.

More time will be required to investigate why a restart seems to be required for your programmatically created project, and if there is a way for you to refresh the z/OS Projects view.

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William Alexander
Senior Software Engineer
IBM
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