The analysis tool provided by MFEEE has a wide variety of capabilities; for example, if there is a variable and you want to know its occurrence in the program, you can do so with a couple of clicks. Also you can search for the occurrence of a macro in an application. The best feature is the automatic graphical representation of the application structure which helps developers to know how an application works.

That is, what program is being called and by whom. In addition, it has the ability to capture lines of code, variable definitions, entire files, etc for better management of a program. This detail can also be shared with other members for team-oriented activity. Apart from these, context-sensitive information about different variables, files and other key information are shown in an application suggestion window for developers.

MFEEE provides you a very easy UI which lists all programs, dependencies, etc in the same window.	In the same window, you can edit the program and run. This makes debugging easier for developers.

Like any other IDE, you will find debugging features as well. For example, it allows a developer to see step-by-step execution of a program. It also allows you to examine the data item and change it during the execution of the program. Apart from these, it provides you the ability to debug native COBOL or S-COBOL according to your preference. MFEEE also includes component generation technology with the help of which you can capture complete legacy applications running on the mainframe and reuse them as a component of Java Beans, EJB, .NET, XML, web services, etc without writing a single object from scratch. The MFEEE has integrated support for JCL and REXX which enables the developer to execute complete batch jobs on the workstation. As it has in-built REXX and CLIST engines, this enables developers to execute the mainframe REXX and CLIST commands within the MFEEE IDE.

For testing an application, this IDE provides a mainfram emulator to run all programs and hence saves on time and costs.

Bottomline: COBOL programmers have been waiting since long for the innovative features provided by this IDE. Now that they have one, there should be little room to complain about.