Cobol Program Trace utility

[Guest_imported]

HI

Is there any utility to Trace the Cobol Program Flow (some sort of analyzer without running the whole cobol program) ?

I thank you in advance
Raghu

 

[Thane]

Most COBOL Vendors provide some tool for this. Which COBOL are you using?

 

[pipk]

If you are on as400, there is an interactive source debugger included with os400. Or on mainframe there is software called ITB/BTS.

 

[SteveMillman]

In some dialects of COBOL there is a Ready Trace command.

You turn it on by setting your Ready Trace on where you want the monitoring to begin, and Reset Trace where you want it to end.

The file ends up in a file (different places depending on your compiler/platform).

The trace will show you the names of the paragraphs that you have gone through... and is useful for debugging a program from a 'high' level.

Steve Millman

 

[saginaw]

This following will do more than what you are asking.

http://www.microfocus.com/products/microfocus/revolve/factsheet.asp

The "Execution Simulation" and the "Impact Analysis" features will do what you are asking.
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