Preparing Remote Projects for Debugging

You use a COBOL Application debug configuration to debug projects developed on a remote UNIX machine. Before you can debug the remote application, you need to have an X window implementation installed and running, so that the output of a remote application running on a UNIX machine can be viewed on your local machine. You do not need X window for other debug configuration types.

Windows:

Micro Focus ViewNow X is provided as part of Enterprise Developer. See Installing X Windows on Windows in the Installation section. Find the ViewNow X documentation on the Micro Focus Infocenter.

UNIX:

Ensure the local X11 server can receive connections from the remote machine. You can do this using the xhost + command or by enabling SSH port forwarding. Alternatively, enable TCP/IP connections for X11 by setting a value in a configuration file in a manner appropriate to your operating system. For example:

Red Hat: run the gdmsetup utility and deselect Deny TCP connections to Xserver in the Security tab (this configures DisallowTCP=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf)
SUSE: set DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

Specify the details about the display that the X11 server tries to contact in the IDE preferences as follows:

Click Window > Preferences > Micro Focus > Debug.
Type the display details in the Default X Server (DISPLAY) field.
The default Default X Server (DISPLAY) value is clientMachineName:0.0. This configuration applies to both remote COBOL and PL/I projects.