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 - basic 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 Core COBOL programs - offers breakpoints, variables, stepping through code.
Note:
- Compiling, debugging, and the advanced editor features provided by the COBOL Language Server require a fully licensed version
of a Micro Focus
Visual COBOL or
Enterprise Developer product installed on the same machine. See
Additional Software Requirements for details.
- This documentation includes references to COBOL terminology and functionality that are provided with Micro Focus Enterprise
Developer or Visual COBOL. See the documentation of these products for details.