Program Breakpoints

Important:

This functionality requires a licensed version of a Micro Focus Visual COBOL or Enterprise Developer product on the same machine. See Installation for details.
Program breakpoints are supported only in native COBOL, and are not supported in nested programs.

Program breakpoints are breakpoints that stop execution each time a specified program or entry point within the program is called.

To set a program breakpoint:

In the Activity bar, click to open the Run and Debug panel, then click the row for PROGRAM BREAKPOINTS.
Click +.
Type the name of the source file, without the extension, and press Enter.
This sets the program breakpoint.

For multi-program source files, to set a break for a sub-program, use its program-id.

To disable a program breakpoint:

In the PROGRAM BREAKPOINTS window, right-click the required program breakpoint, and click Toggle Enable Program Breakpoint to disable it.

To delete a program breakpoint:

In the PROGRAM BREAKPOINTS window, right-click the required program breakpoint, and click Delete Program Breakpoint, or to delete all current program breakpoints, click Delete All Program Breakpoints.