cobrun A or cobanim runs the program instead of animating

When executing ‘cobrun A progname’ or ‘cobanim progname’ the program runs instead of passing to the animator. For example, let’s assume you’re attempting to use cobanim to animate the demo program ‘tictac’ from the $COBDIR/demo/tictac/ directory. You can activate ‘cobanim’ either directly or via the ‘cobrun A’ commands. For example the command 'cobanim tictac' or 'cobrun A tictac' runs the program (as if 'cobrun tictac' had been entered) instead of opening the animator.

When you run either of these commands, if you find that instead of activating the animator and allowing you to step through the code it runs the program exactly as if you had entered ‘cobrun tictac’, then one thing to look for is to make sure that you are not attempting to animate from the Server for COBOL (Application Server) runtime environment. You cannot animate programs from the runtime environment, you can only animate from the Server Express development environment. Further to this, we have found instances where Server Express was installed and then Server for COBOL was installed in the same location over the top of Server Express. This must not happen and it can impact cobanim.