Debugger Users Guide

The COBOL-IT Debugger is called cobcdb. Cobcdb can be run from the command-line. Cobcdb is also integrated into the COBOL-IT Developer Studio, in the Debugger Perspective. There are many advantages to using the COBOL-IT Debugger inside the Developer Studio, as we will see in exercises, such as the Debug Attach and C level debugging.

For both the command-line version of cobcdb, and the Developer Studio Debugger Perspective, running a compiled object in the debugger requires that the original source code have been compiled for debugging. Compiling for debugging causes the compiler to create debugging meta data, and store it either in the compiled object itself or in a separate file.

See Compiling for Debugging for compile options.