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I'd like to animate a cobol program and stop animation on a field value change - i think the documentation says to do a breakpoint until - but I don't see how to set this up while animating... the field value into the program is "2000089" - it would change to some other value like "200089.0000"

if it's thru the 'B'reak - that sub menu shows me set, unset, cancel-all, examine, if, do, on-count, zoom

not sure where/how to find until

anyone know how to do

 

I'd like to animate a cobol program and stop animation on a field value change - i think the documentation says to do a breakpoint until - but I don't see how to set this up while animating... the field value into the program is "2000089" - it would change to some other value like "200089.0000"

if it's thru the 'B'reak - that sub menu shows me set, unset, cancel-all, examine, if, do, on-count, zoom

not sure where/how to find until

anyone know how to do

 

What product is it that you are using?

Posting this for Dan Wright:

Assuming you are asking about the Animator in Server Express, you cannot set a global break condition (i.e. unassociated with a particular statement in the Procedure Division), where execution would stop whenever the value of a data-item changes.  This was a feature of earlier releases of MF COBOL, such as Workbench and Object COBOL Developer's Suite, but it's not in Server Express.

Instead, you will have to set a breakpoint on a particular statement, using the If option in the Breakbpoint menu.  Execution will break on that statement if/when:

That statement is reached, and the condition is met.

Thanks.

I'd like to animate a cobol program and stop animation on a field value change - i think the documentation says to do a breakpoint until - but I don't see how to set this up while animating... the field value into the program is "2000089" - it would change to some other value like "200089.0000"

if it's thru the 'B'reak - that sub menu shows me set, unset, cancel-all, examine, if, do, on-count, zoom

not sure where/how to find until

anyone know how to do

 

SERVER EXPRESS

cobol v5.0.00-e

PRN=R9CTH/AAH:9l.a5.50.03

PTI=WrapPack 4 (7276.7659)

PTI=ES

PTI=Fixpack50.03_13

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