Supported features

Features

• The product workbench in the Windows environment includes the following features:
  • An analysis configuration window for creating reusable profiles for reviewing code:
    • Controls for specifying the source code files to be reviewed and the coding rules to be applied.
    • Selectable built-in coding rules with severity levels.
    • Configurable built-in custom rules.
    • Built-in and custom categories for organizing coding rules.
  • A Software Analyzer Results view for displaying code review results and generating reports:
    • Retention of multiple code review results while the development workbench is running.
    • A setting for filtering the display of results.
    • Reports of the results of a code review in PDF format.
    • Links from code review results directly to the source code files in an editor.
  • Support in the editors for:
    • Marking lines of source code that contain problems with highlighted text and bookmarks.
    • Quick access to the problem lines in a source code file that is flagged by a code review result.
    • Quick rerunning of a code review to verify fixes.
    • One-at-a-time code review of remote source code files.
  • Distribution of code review profiles:
    • Export and import of code review profiles.
    • Distribution of code review profiles to clients with push-to-client software (software analysis configurations only).
  • User-written rules. The following features are included:
    • Quick generation of plug-in projects for developing user-written rules.
    • Generation of Java™ source code files that provide a framework for a user-written rule.
    • A Java API that provides classes for user-written rules.
    • A Java API for accessing the COBOL or PL/I language elements of a source code file when it is being reviewed.
    • Support of most COBOL and PL/I language elements.
• The command-line code review application in the Windows environment runs a software analysis configuration or a baseline analysis configuration. It includes the following features:
  • Support for language-specific standard rules, for custom rules and categories, and (with COBOL) for user-written rules.
  • Batch support for processing multiple projects or directories.
  • Scope options for processing projects, directories, or all the projects in the workspace.
  • Support for include lists and exclude lists of specific files.
  • Data output files in XML, CSV, or JUnit XML format.

• In the z/OS environment, the command-line code review application has the same features as the code review application in the Windows environment. It generates equivalent results. See the related links.

Supported perspectives

Supported editors