Editing and Debugging Differences

Data Tools
The Net Express Data Tools are available as the Classic Data File Tool utility in Visual COBOL for Eclipse on Windows, but not on UNIX. On UNIX, there is a new Data File Tools utility which is a standalone text editor in which you can create and edit data files .

Debugging Native Object-Oriented COBOL
In Net Express you can examine an object while debugging OO COBOL and display the class that defined the object and also other objects derived from that class. In Visual COBOL, you can also view the class information of native OO COBOL but not while debugging.

Mixed Language Debugging
With Net Express you could debug mixed language applications. In Visual COBOL, you can debug native COBOL and Java or native COBOL and C with some additional configuration.

Program Breakpoints
Program breakpoints are breakpoints that stop execution each time a specified program or entry point within the program is called. They are supported in Visual COBOL, but by default their behavior is different from their behavior in Net Express

Remote Debugging
The Net Express animserv utility used for debugging programs remotely has been replaced by cobdebugremote (Windows) or cobdebugremote32 (UNIX) (or cobdebugremote64 when debugging 64-bit processes) in Visual COBOL.

Source Pool View
The source pool view in Net Express showed all source files available in the project directory, regardless of whether or not they are used in the current build type. This view is not available in Visual COBOL.