Problem:

Is it possible to immediately begin animating a Dialog screenset while animating the COBOL program, to view how the screenset deals with the data passed to it from the program.

How is the environment established?

Opening up a screenset from within the project and setting a breakpoint on the first line, is an option.

However, a separate screenset is started with DSGRUN from within the COBOL program.

Resolution:

To break immediately into the Dialog System code by changing the call to Dialog System from DSGRUN to DS.

For example:

78  dialog-system               VALUE "DS".

*78  dialog-system               VALUE "DSGRUN". - i.e. comment out this line and replace                                                                                     it with the one above.

...

Call-Dialog-System SECTION.                  

   CALL dialog-system USING Ds-Control-Block,

                            Data-Block.      

   IF NOT Ds-No-Error                        

       Etc.