ART IMS supports user COBOL program debugging for Micro Focus COBOL and COBOL-IT COBOL. You can use "anim" tool to debug Micro Focus COBOL programs and use "deet" tool to debug COBOL-IT COBOL programs. You can configure all the transaction/program you need to debug in the configuration file imsdebug.desc. Only those transactions/programs configured in this file could be debugged. You could change this configuration file and then use imsadmin tool to enable it for online system.

To support COBOL debug, all COBOL programs must be compiled to output with debug info, for MF, the .idy file must exist.

• Debugging with Micro Focus COBOL
  
• Debugging with COBOL-IT COBOL