The
Micro Focus COBOL extension provides support for compiling, editing, and debugging COBOL source code in
Visual Studio Code on Windows and Linux.
Main Features
Features include:
- Editing support for COBOL code - smart indenting, syntax colorization, source format and dialect recognition are available.
- Compilation of COBOL code - supports the compiling of source files when either an Eclipse project or a Visual Studio solution
file is present, or using custom build scripts.
- Debugging of native COBOL
code - offers debug configurations, breakpoints, watchpoints and COBOL program breakpoints, inline values of variables,
debugging of applications running on a remote machine or in an Enterprise Server instance, and just-in-time debugging (JIT).
- Debugging of
.NET COBOL programs - offers breakpoints, variables, stepping through code, debug launch configurations, etc.
- Debugging of JVM COBOL programs - offers breakpoints, stepping through the code, debug launch configurations, etc.
- Unit testing of COBOL programs through integration with the Micro Focus Unit Testing Framework. You can view, compile, run,
and debug tests cases for COBOL applications.
Note:
- Compiling, debugging, unit testing, and the advanced editor features provided by the COBOL Language Server require a fully
licensed version of a Micro Focus™
Visual COBOL or
Micro Focus™ Enterprise Developer product installed on the same machine.
- This documentation includes references to COBOL terminology and functionality that are provided with Micro Focus Enterprise
Developer or Micro Focus Visual COBOL. See the documentation of these products for details.