From d7edaa4534e6f59099abbc02252d466c1bfa9833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Solal Pirelli <168633181+SolalPirelli-Sonar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:51:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] COBOL S1289 (`COBOL.UnusedDataItem`): Ignore `EXTERNAL` data
 items

Companion PR for ticket [COBOL-1701](https://sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/SONARCOBOL-1701): data items marked as `EXTERNAL` should not be marked as "unused data item".
---
 rules/S1289/cobol/rule.adoc | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rules/S1289/cobol/rule.adoc b/rules/S1289/cobol/rule.adoc
index cdfd4781c08..f8feae4e26e 100644
--- a/rules/S1289/cobol/rule.adoc
+++ b/rules/S1289/cobol/rule.adoc
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ MOVE "John" TO FIRST_NAME.
 
 ``++FILLER++`` top level data items and top level data items which have sub data items with a ``++VALUE++`` clause are not checked by this rule.
 
+``++EXTERNAL++`` data items are not checked by this rule.
+
 ifdef::env-github,rspecator-view[]
 
 '''