Developing Applications in the IDE

Starting Visual COBOL

Starting Visual COBOL as an Administrator

Using Eclipse for COBOL Development

Creating COBOL Projects

Building COBOL applications
To build an application, you need to compile its programs and link them to a run-time system. In the IDE, you use a build configuration to define how to do this.

Code Analysis

Debugging COBOL applications
Your COBOL development system provides a debugging environment where the source code of each program is displayed in a separate window.

Running COBOL Applications

Code Coverage (Native COBOL)
Code coverage for native COBOL in Visual COBOL integrates the Micro Focus Test Coverage facility.