[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] How to use the OpenEdge debugger (OpenEdge Debugger 11.6)

[Dominique]

I'm working with OpenEdge Progress-4GL AppBuilder and Procedure Editor, and now I'd like to start working with the OpenEdge Debugger, release 11.6.

As found on quite some places on the internet, I've taken following actions to enable debugging of my Progress application:

Using Proenv, I've launched following command:

prodebugenable -enable-all

I get following response:

OpenEdge Release 11.6 as of Fri Oct 16 19:01:51 EDT 2015

==============================================================================
        PROGRESS Debug Enabler
==============================================================================

Debugging is enabled for the Progress 4GL installed in
C:\PROGRE~1\OpenEdge.

For your information, some information on environment variables:

proenv>set DLC
DLC=C:\PROGRE~1\OpenEdge

proenv>set WRK
WRKDIR=C:\OPENED~1\WRK

proenv>set ENABLE_OPENEDGE_DEBUGGER
Environment variable ENABLE_OPENEDGE_DEBUGGER not defined

As far as my application is concerned, the application is based on a shortcut, which looks as follows:

C:\Progressx86\OpenEdge\bin\prowin32.exe
  -basekey "INI"
    -ininame c:\progress\our_application\progress.ini
  -pf c:\progress\our_application\misc\run_our_application.pf
  -p our_application.r
  -rr

The file "run_our_application.pf" contains a list of entries, like the following:

-db   our_DB
-H  DC1
-N  tcp
-S  6543

To the mentioned shortcut, I've added -debugReady 5001 in order to enable debugging, based on TCP portnumber 5001. When I launch the application, I get a warning message about this, and netstat -aon gives me following entry:

TCP    0.0.0.0:5001           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       11344

Where 11344 is confirmed as the prowin32 application.

In OpenEdge debugger, I've following entries in menu item "Edit", "Preferences", "Attachable":

C:\progress\our_application
Z:\Progress\our_application\PRG
C:\Progressx86\OpenEdge

For your information: The Z:-drive is an external server drive, Z:\Progress\our_application\PRG is the directory where files (*.w and *.p) get compiled into *.r files, the file our_application.r can be found there.

Nevertheless, when I open a *.w file and I go to the menu "Debug", the "Attach to Process" menu item stays disabled.

What can I do in order to debug my application/*.w file?
Thanks in advance

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