VISUAL Debugger for Windows Brochure
It Eases Maintenance
Maintenance is time consuming and boring. Big programs, old code, no fresh documentation, obscure field names and indicators... It's easy to overlook something in the maze of objects, files, and changes made over the years.
- Speed up understanding of complex logic
- Navigate complex, undocumented apps like a breeze
- Surf' your code with the powerful hyperlinks
- Create colorful, professional looking documentation!
Don't worry. VISUAL Debugger is here to help. It will reveal code and data structures, object relationships, record formats, remote source code and much more. So you don't waste your time figuring out what all that code is there for. It will save you lots of time, so you can finish any assignment faster.
Very Easy-to-use Graphical Interface 
You'll love VISUAL Debugger at first sight. No commands to memorize. And maximum power: Program Navigator, customizable ColorCoding, RPG and CL indentation, comment hiding, Back/Forward buttons and hyperlinks, advanced FIND, dead code detection, reusable Projects, customizable keyboard templates, and more. Now you have a clearer picture of your applications, and you can navigate them at top speed
Application Explorer & Data Dicitionary 
The Application Explorer gives you a navigable tree diagram of your applications, allowing you to drill right down to code or object attributes in programs, files, and modules many levels away, with just one click. The Data Dictionary gives you a list of all variables used in each module, revealing current values, sub-field structures, and more.
Solves Problems in Running Jobs
- Solve live software problems on the fly
- Fix problems remotely
- Increase application availability
- Prevent errors from freezing your apps
VISUAL Debugger is great at testing, but also lets you start debugging any running job (interactive or batch) at any time, giving you lots of information (including internal, restricted job data) so you can solve problems quickly.
It even allows you to execute commands on the debugged job, like changing its LIBL. And you can do all that without canceling the job, so you can diagnose, report, document, and even fix unexpected problems like never before.
Live Software Solving Problems 
Capture local and remote iSeries batch and interactive jobs at any time. Use remote source code. See any end-user's screen up to the latest keystroke. See and change LDA, LIBL, QTEMP, and more. See running source code, variable values, and control the execution with point-and-click simplicity. Get internal job information, error descriptions, and even execute any command to solve the problem, without canceling the job. All with an iSeries-based security system that makes your iSeries safer than ever.
Solve Problems over the Internet 
Solving problems remotely is easy with VISUAL Debugger. The exclusive NiceLink will give you connectivity choices and extreme speed, even with slow modem connections. Access all your iSeries from a single PC. And what if the line fails? No problem. The Smart Recovery technology will let you regain control of your debugged job after failures, right to the same source line where you were before.
Debug and Test at Warp Speed
- Increase programmer productivity
- Improve program quality easily
- Reduce testing times, project costs and risks
- Avoid errors in production code
Oh, yeah, we almost forgot! We are talking about a debugger here. In fact, the most advanced iSeries debugger you’ve ever seen. VISUAL Debugger will give you unprecedented power and control of your testing environment.
Empower yourself with VISUAL Debugger, the ultimate tool for the professional programmer. Save time, ease your daily tasks, meet deadlines effortlessly, and feel that good old pleasure of programming back again
Advanced Debugging Tools 
See variable values with a click (as tooltips or in a window) in hex or character formats, change variables, indicators and fields, execute statements one by one or N times, Run to Cursor, AutoDebug, Step Into and Over, set multiple conditional breakpoints, stop the program whenever a condition is met, regardless of where, and much, much more.
Test Coverage Tracking 
The Test Coverage tracker helps you assure that all logical paths in a program have been properly tested. No changes to your source required! Avoid unpleasant surprises and improve program quality.
Variable Watchlist 
See how variables change as your program executes. Ask VISUAL Debugger to stop the program whenever a variable changes, regardless of the statement where that happens, and much more
VISUAL Debugger for Windows Features
Maximum Support
- Debugs RPG/400, ILE RPG (RPG IV), CL, ILE CL, COBOL/400, ILE COBOL, ILE C, ILE C++, Triggers, Embedded SQL, COPYs, CASE-generated programs, more...
- Supports Windows 95/98/NT/2000 platforms
- Built-in support for APPC Router engines, TCP/IP, CPI-C, and direct Microsoft SNA Server connections
Test Coverage Tracker
- The embedded Test Coverage Tracker helps you assure that all logical paths in a program are properly tested.
- Clear on screen indication of untested statements
- Interactive and printout
- Search for unexecuted statements
- Automatic testing with temporal breakpoints
Navigate through complex, undocumented code like a breeze
- Advanced Program Navigation aids make it extremely easy for you to understand even the most convoluted program logic.
- Program Navigator showing a navigable tree of internal and external calls
- See all invocations for a particular subroutine, external call or label
- Hyperlinks and Back / Forward support
- Customizable Color Coding
- RPG and CL indentation
- Show / hide comments
Increase application availability by solving unexpected problems on the spot
- Enter instantly into any running job (interactive or batch) in any language at any time. See executing code, variables, the actual user’s screen and more. See and change the LDA, LIBL, QTEMP, and execute any command.... even when in production mode!
- Explore applications with point-and-click simplicity
- No app documentation? No problem. Get from the big picture to detailed code hidden in service programs many levels down just by clicking. No long dictionary rebuilds required.
Create professional looking documentation
- Print program code in living colors with RPG/CL indentation in any PC printer.
Solve problems from home, safely
- Be the company hero by solving that bug in your mission critical app without leaving home. Thanks to the exclusive NiceLink and SmartRecovery technologies, you can debug any job through the Internet, or using SNA, with optimum speed and fail safe connections.
Secure and fast iSeries connections
- VISUAL Debugger uses NiceLink, the Tango/04's communications engine, providing easy and lightning fast connectivity.
- Easy to use, graphical configuration wizard
- State-of-the-art Client/Server technology with StartNow*
- Concerned about security? Ask us how you can use VISUAL Debugger for Windows remotely without putting your iSeries on the Internet, easily and safely.
And many other advanced features
- Start VISUAL Debugger from your 5250 or PDM session
- Run programs from your emulation session or from VISUAL Debugger
- Enhanced, navigable Call Stack with parameter values
- Advanced user-based security system
Packed with features! Find out what you have been missing
- Enter into any running job at any time
- See how variables change as the program runs (Watch List window)
- Stop when a condition is met, regardless of statement
- Point and click, icon based, and SEU-like commands operation
- Autodebug (Animation)
- Color Coding, RPG/CL indentation,lots of browsing improvements
- Advanced FIND
- Hyperlinks
- See variable values as hints (tooltips),in a window, watchvar or in command log
- One-click program switching
- Run to cursor
- System, Member and Application Explorer
- Test coverage analysis
- Program Navigator
- Stop when a variable (or just part of it) changes
- Project Manager
- Remote debugging
- See internal Job info (*LDA, QTEMP, LIBL, more) without canceling
- See current end-user screen
- “Chat” feature to exchange info with end-users quickly
- Execute commands on other jobs (change LIBL, QTEMP, LDA, more...)
- Data Dictionary
- Pretty Printer
- Dead Code Location
- 32 bits Graphical Interface, unmatched ease of use [PDF SPEC SHEET] |
