Creating a rule file

About this task

A rule file contains a set of code review rules to be applied by the z/OS® code review application. The application requires a rule file to be specified. A rule file can include built-in rules, custom rules, and user-written rules. It can contain both COBOL and PL/I rules, in case the code review analysis targets both COBOL and PL/I source code files.

Procedure

To create a rule file, follow these steps:

  1. Open the software analysis configuration window and select the configuration that contains the rules to be included in the rule file.
  2. On the Rules tab, select the rules.
  3. Click Export. Follow the steps in the wizard to export the rule information into a .dat file.

Results

The rule file is created.