Strengthen your critical applications

Tango/04's development and testing solutions help you strengthen the foundation of your business: that is, your critical RPG and Cobol applications. Program errors can be easily detected in testing, and production errors can be diagnosed and solved live, so you can:

• Get better programmer productivity
• Reduce project times and risks
• Achieve higher application availability, less downtime
• Speed application maintenance
• Deploy new features faster
• Strengthen back-end apps

VISUAL Debugger for Windows is the leading development tool for RPG and Cobol, used for creating and maintaining critical applications by leading companies such as TransAmerica, Enterprise Rent A Car, PC Connection and more.

With VISUAL Debugger for Windows, programmers save tons and tons of valuable development time, with unique features such as the watch variable list, variable monitors, TOC and index navigational program views, the exclusive data dictionary, application explorer, complex, conditional and hard breakpoints, and much, much more.

Furthermore, it's advanced live debugging features allow problems to be solved in running iSeries jobs without the need to cancel them: avoiding the need to painstakingly recreate errors in a development environment, and avoiding application downtime.

VISUAL Debugger for Windows debugs any running job, interactive or batch, even using remote source code. Programmers can identify application problems at the source code level, and solve problems by modifying program variables or editing internal program attributes such as LDA, QTEMP, library list and more.

VISUAL Debugger for Windows product page

Everybody agrees that putting untested code into production is an instant recipe for disaster. But how do programmers know that they are testing their programs thoroughly? How can they avoid wasting time testing statements that are already verified? How do Project Managers ensure that testers are not cutting corners when it comes to QA, especially when deadlines are looming?

TestTracker is an integrated feature of VISUAL Debugger for Windows. As programmers debug or test their program, VISUAL Debugger for Windows pinpoints interactively which statements have not yet been covered. It also has the ability to generate comprehensive graphical test coverage reports in HTML format and includes detailed testing information, such as the percentage of executed statements.

VISUAL Debugger for Windows Test Tracker page

VISUAL Support Pro is a vital part of any application implementation. When changes go live, local and remote user's support needs are greater, and the development team is on "red alert" for possible errors. With VISUAL Support Pro your team can diagnose and research any application problem instantly, whether it is a confused user or a program bug. The NiceLink technology means that problems can even be diagnosed remotely over the Internet.

Project times and risks are reduced, user support is improved and IT productivity is improved.

VISUAL Support Pro product page

VISUAL Message Center's unique ability to detect any interactive error message, with no previous configuration or programming, means that programmers can get alerted to interactive errors as soon as they occur.

Without VISUAL Message Center that would not be possible - in the iSeries, interactive errors only go to the *External message queue associated with each job. Nobody has time to individually monitor those message queues, so many errors slip through the net.

Now programmers can solve problems in record time when you roll out a new application or when you are testing changes.

VISUAL Message Center product page

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