Visual COBOL comes with a set of predefined rules and rule sets for a number of code analysis queries to run on COBOL applications. In
addition to these,
Visual COBOL provides an import mechanism to enable you to add more rules and rule sets into the IDE.
Note: In addition to the rules supplied with the installation, you can import more rules and rule sets into
Visual COBOL.
Micro Focus Enterprise Analyzer includes many more standard rules which you can reuse within the
Visual COBOL and this gives you the option to be able to customize these to create your own site-specific analyst functions which you
can then publish out to your development teams. Contact
Micro Focus for further information.
To import new rules and rule sets into the IDE:
- Copy the
.xml files that contain the new rules into a directory on your machine.
- In the IDE, click
Window > Preferences > Micro Focus > COBOL > Code Analysis.
- Click
Edit in the
Directory for additional rules definition files section.
- In the
Edit Directory dialog box, click
Browse and navigate to the directory that contains the .xml files with the new rules you want to import.
- Click
Finish.
This imports the files into
Visual COBOL and adds the newly imported rules and rule sets to the list on the
Code Analysis preferences page.