Debug only working for CBL not CBLLE

[russ-camira]

We're on debug version 3.0.3 but for the last week or so we're only getting the debug option for our *.CBL programs. (we're a cobol shop)
If I open a CBLLE or SQLCBLLE I don't get the green 'play' icon but I do get it when I open a CBL.
We're on IBM i 7.5 and we've installed the PTF's.
This has me tearing my hair out, anyone seen this?

[sebjulliand]

Hi @russ-camira ,
there is indeed an issue with ILE Cobol which is not recognized as a valid language type for the debug option to show.
I don't know if that's a recent change in the Cobol extension, but so far only the COBOL language type is picked up. Since opening an ILE Cobol member switches the language type to ILECOBOL, the button doesn't show.

Before this gets fixed, you can switch the language type at the bottom to COBOL and the green play button will show up:

You can also start a debug session from the Object Browser, by right clicking on a PGM object.

[russ-camira]

Thank you for the quick response and also for your suggested workaround by changing the language type. This gets us working again.

I do note that the second option does not show for me but this is not a concern at the moment.

[sebjulliand]

@russ-camira you're welcome.
A PR had been submitted to fix the reported issue.

As for the option, it appears on *PGM and *SRVPGM objects. You have to create a filter that can display such objects (i.e. not an *SRCPF kind of filter).

Hope this helps!