Debugging Using the Integrated Terminal

Important: This functionality requires a licensed version of a Visual COBOL or Enterprise Developer product, version 10.0 or later, on the same machine. See Installation for details.

The following information applies when you use Visual Studio Code to debug applications that use character screens for input/output.

If the application being debugged contains any screen I/O, you need to interact with the application. You can use the integrated terminal to debug applications in the following scenarios:

Running locally without using a separate console window or application output window.
Running on a remote Linux system without having to install an X-Server on your local system.
Running in a devcontainer without requiring the xterm support to be installed in the devcontainer.
When Visual Studio Code is running in a web browser and using a remote tunnel to connect to a remote system.

To use the integrated terminal, add the following to the debug configuration file, launch.json, for the application to be debugged in Visual Studio Code:

"console": "integratedTerminal"

where the other options for the console are externalTerminal and externalConsole (Windows only).