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Overview - Debugging COBOL Applications

Your COBOL development system provides a debugging environment, which is sensitive to COBOL and includes all the usual features such as stepping, watch windows and breakpoints.
Note: Certain features described in this section only apply to native COBOL.

When you debug an application, the source code of each program is displayed in a separate window. Each line of the source is highlighted in turn as each statement is executed, showing the effect of each statement. You can execute the program at full speed and can interrupt execution to examine and change data items.

You control the way debugging works by setting options on the Debug page of the project's properties and in the option pages which you can access from Debug > Options and Settings > Debugging.

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