Currently, Visual COBOL IntelliSense filters on leaf data item levels only:

I propose to provide an additional IntelliSense filter option:

COBOL IntelliSense should also provide suggestions for node data items:

As you can see, the above mock image shows entries for an upper level data item and there is a fourth filter button added, depicting the suggested filter icon.

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This is the data structure I used in my example: