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
Analyze > Micro Focus Code Analyzer Manager.
- Click
Browse next to
Folder for additional rules definition files.
- Navigate to and select the directory that contains the .xml files with the new rules you want to import, then click
Select Folder.
- Click
Update to load the new rules and rule sets into Code Analyzer Manager.
- Click
OK to close Code Analyzer Manager.
