Component	Required release	Notes
Installer for embedded dashboards (when using standalone or Windows JAR installers)	2.11.2-funcrel	You must use the installer provided with the current release of Console, otherwise there is no guarantee of compatibility.
CAST Imaging	≥ 2.5.2-funcrel	-

2.10

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Content matrix

Version Summary of content Comments

2.10.0-funcrel

Package contents:

The combined WAR and JAR package com.castsoftware.aip.dashboard contains:
- Engineering Dashboard 2.10.0-funcrel (with feature updates and customer bug fixes)
- Health Dashboard 2.10.0-funcrel (with feature updates and customer bug fixes)
The standalone WAR and JAR package com.castsoftware.aip.dashboard.engineering contains: Engineering Dashboard 2.10.0-funcrel
The standalone WAR and JAR package com.castsoftware.aip.dashboard.health contains: Health Dashboard 2.10.0-funcrel

Updates:

Removal of violations from the Action Plan and Scheduled Exclusion list using the Rules Violation table
Convertion of an action item into an exclusion
Automatic assignment of NO_ROLE, when a new profile is created
Minor UI updates for the CAST Dashboard Administration panel
Contains customer bug fixes

Can be used with

2.10

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Content matrix

Version

Summary of content

Comments

2.10.0-funcrel

Updates:

Removal of violations from the Action Plan and Scheduled Exclusion list using the Rules Violation table
Convertion of an action item into an exclusion
Automatic assignment of NO_ROLE, when a new profile is created
Minor UI updates for the CAST Dashboard Administration panel
Contains customer bug fixes

Can be used with:

≥ 8.3.3

2.10.0-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - Security Dashboard - Converting an action item into an exclusion	In the rules violation table (available in the Risk Investigation, Application Investigation, Transaction Investigation and Advanced Search pages), it is now possible to move a violation that is already in the Action Plan list into the Scheduled Exclusion list using the “Manage > Manage exclusion of the violations” option. In previous releases it was only possible to do this directly using the Scheduled Exclusion list. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/SECURITY/Security+Dashboard+-+Exclusions#SecurityDashboardExclusions-ViatheRiskInvestigation,ApplicationInvestigation,TransactionInvestigationandAdvancedSearchviews.
UI - User Authorization roles - Read-only [NO_ROLE] role	The NO_ROLE role (read-only role) has now been made available for selection in the CAST Dashboard Administration panel for all Dashboards (in previous releases this role was not available for selection). When a new profile is created, the NO_ROLE role will be automatically assigned. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DASHBOARDS/User+roles+-+2.x+and+above.
UI - Security Dashboard - Remove violations from the Action Plan and Scheduled Exclusion list using the Rules Violation table	In the rules violation table (available in the Application Investigation, Risk Investigation, Transaction Investigation and Advanced Search pages), it is now possible to remove violations from the Action Plan and the Scheduled Exclusion list using the “Manage > Remove from Action list” and the “Manage > Remove from Scheduled List” options. In previous releases it was only possible to remove violations directly using the Action Plan or the Scheduled Exclusion list. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/SECURITY/Security+Dashboard+-+Action+Plan#SecurityDashboardActionPlan-Removingviolations(objects)fromtheActionPlan and https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/SECURITY/Security+Dashboard+-+Exclusions#SecurityDashboardExclusions-removeRemovingviolations(objects)fromtheExclusionlist.
UI - User Authorization - Users/Groups panel - Remove SAML/LDAP users/groups	A remove option is now available for selected SAML/LDAP users/groups in the CAST Dashboard Administration panel for all Dashboards. See: https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DASHBOARDS/User+roles+-+2.x+and+above#Userroles2.xandabove-Users/Groupspanel.
UI - User Authorization - Users/Groups panel - Search	A search option is now available in the column header for the Users/Groups panel in the CAST Dashboard Administration interface, allowing you to search for users/groups that have already been granted a profile. See: https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DASHBOARDS/User+roles+-+2.x+and+above#Userroles2.xandabove-Users/Groupspanel.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DASHBOARDS-4890	A change has been made to improve overall performance of the CAST Security Dashboard when a large number of domains are configured in the domains.properties file. This change is aimed at improving the loading time of the Home page and the Application selection page.
DASHBOARDS-4906	Fixes an issue where the diagnostic.html page was found to be accessible by users without the ADMIN role. Only users with the ADMIN role can now access this page.
DASHBOARDS-4864	Fixes an issue where the result of the “Check for update” option available in the UI was displaying incorrect information.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
38908	Fixes an issue where rules are duplicated (i.e. displayed twice) in the UI when the criticality of the rule (attached to new custom technical criterion) is changed.
38744	Fixes an issue causing some UI elements (the violations download icon) to be hidden when the “no license” warning banner is displayed in the UI.
39244	Fixes an issue causing an unsuitable error message to be displayed when logging in and a timeout occurs.
39389	Fixes a performance issue found in Security Dashboard. Due to multiple API calls performance was affected, after the fix the number of API calls is reduced.

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2.11

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

CAST highly recommends updating to the new release of Console to take advantage of new features and bug fixes. See Upgrade process for more information about this.

Compatibility matrix

Component	Minimum required release	Notes
Installer for embedded dashboards (when using standalone or Windows JAR installers)	2.11.7-funcrel	You must use the installer provided with the current release of Console, otherwise there is no guarantee of compatibility.
CAST Imaging	≥ 2.5.2-funcrel	-

2.11.17-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
58372	Fixes critical and high security vulnerabilities caused by outdated Apache Log4j dependencies (CVE-2026-34477). Log4j versions have been updated across multiple components to address SSL hostname verification concerns.
58280	Fixes Docker image startup failures for aip-gateway and aip-service-registry caused by missing GCC runtime libraries following Alpine Linux and JVM version upgrades.
57814	Fixes an issue affecting PL/I source file analysis where incorrect component deletion occurred during the Prepare Analysis phase.
57932	Fixes a thread-safety issue in the package preparation step that caused “ConcurrentModificationException” errors and failed deep analysis jobs.
57181	Fixes an issue where duplicate Analysis Units were created for PL/I applications after an application was renamed.
57665	Fixes an issue where extensions that had been deleted were automatically reinstalled during subsequent version updates or analysis runs.

Known Issues

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-16804	For PL1-based applications: renaming an application and then running a scan and analysis triggers a “Missing Package: pl1MergedPck not found” error. The underlying cause is incorrect package cleanup when the application folder path changes. This issue will be fixed in 2.11.18-funcrel.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-16798	Fixed an issue where the “.NET Project and Resources Discoverers” extension was not automatically installed even though the Code Scanner had detected the required plugins (e.g. dmtdevcsharpdiscoverer), causing analysis to fail at the “Prepare Analysis Config” step with an “ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException”.
WEBI-16797	Resolved a reporting defect where the Analysis Report (XLSX) listed Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript files as “Not Analyzed / Unanalyzed” despite those files being successfully parsed and visible as analyzed objects in the Imaging Viewer.
WEBI-16795	Fixed a discovery issue where PL/1 sources with mixed .PLI/.PLC file extensions caused 8 separate analysis unit jobs to be created instead of the expected single job, impacting link accuracy in large mainframe applications (e.g. COBOL, PL/1, Assembler, Db2).
WEBI-16794	Addressed the inability to define a priority order for KB Tools execution in Imaging Console. Previously, dependent KB Tools did not run in a predictable sequence, requiring manual re-runs and recomputation of function points - functionality that was available in CAST Management Studio.

2.11.16-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-16733	The “Development Environment” option available when configuring a C/C++ analysis has been removed from the UI. This option allowed end users to choose a specific IDE that was used to develop the source code they wanted to analyze. Now, the development environment is auto detected and appropriate analysis configuration settings are applied as a result. See also C/C++ analysis configuration.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
49529	Fixes an issue where the filters on DLM target type shows only the range displayed in the page and not all available values. Now all available values are listed in all filters.
53299	Fixes an issue where the Fast scan was failing (fixed by profiler version 1.8.38).
54010	Fixes an issue preventing a successful installation as AIP Registry service fails with the error “Caused by: liquibase.exception.DatabaseException: ERROR: out of memory”.
54816	Fixes an issue where full graph objects are missing from Transaction graph view in CAST Imaging, when the “generate views” action is executed separately from a “generate snapshot” action (fixed if the com.castsoftware.aip version is >= 8.3.61).
54277	Fixes an issue where debug logs are not visible in CAST Console “VIEW LOGS” panel during an ongoing analysis (specifically when a log pattern is found in a debug log message).
55717	Fixes a performance issue for the snapshot indicator “Transaction with High number of objects”.
54152	Fixes an issue where XML metadata files from a SAP extraction are incorrectly marked as unanalyzed in the analysis report.

Bug Fixes

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-16750	Fixes an issue when the conversion to UTF-8 is not enabled and the onboarded application contains at least 1 non UTF-8 file: the alert was showing an incorrect number of non UTF-8 files, whereas now the alert shows the right number of non UTF-8 files.
WEBI-16753	Improved encoding handling for IBM i applications: excluded .LF/.PF files and files detected as x-IBM930 from automatic UTF‑8 conversion to prevent loss of DDS views and analysis objects.

2.11.15-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-16525	Onboarding without Fast Scan (legacy onboarding mode) is now deprecated. CAST recommends using onboarding with Fast Scan wherever possible (this is enabled by default for all new applications).

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
53163	Fixes two vulnerabilities (orca-11894765 Spring4Shell and orca-13873215 Apache Tomcat) found in “spring-beans-5.3.13.jar” and “tomcat-embed-core-9.0.83.jar” shipped with the AIP Node component.
53223	Fixes an issue causing the error “AIP version of the application 8.3.X1 is lower than the one in the analysis node 8.3.X2” when attempting to restore an application using the UI.
41457	Fixes an issue where no Mainframe Analysis Unit was created for an application with only .CPY files. This was preventing the user from accessing the Mainframe Cobol configuration section.
52408	Fixes an issue where no Mainframe Analysis Unit was created for an application with only .CPY files. This was preventing the user from accessing the Mainframe Cobol configuration section.
52408	Fixes an issue where an application named “Tests” and its files are automatically excluded from analysis due to the default file filter exclusion expression ’tests/'.
52514	Fixes an out of memory issue when computing the snapshot indicator ‘Overlapping objects count’.
53052	Fixes an issue where the Security Dataflow feature was automatically and erroneously set to “disabled” during an analysis after being manually enabled. The feature will now remain enabled unless manually disabled.
53338	Fixes an issue which was preventing the analysis from running with missing source code.
53230	Fixes an issue which was preventing the removal of an application from the Management/Health dashboard and the measure schema when the application was deleted from the Console UI.
54248	Fixes an issue which was preventing the removal of an application from the Management/Health dashboard and the measure schema when the application was deleted from the Console UI.
53986	Fixes an issue in the KB Update Assistant that was causing the results to be incorrectly updated during the save and run actions.
54072	Fixes an issue where a change in the PostgreSQL “operator” password caused the creation of application schemas to fail. Updated documentation has been provided, see the documentation: /export-v2/storage/maintenance-and-configuration-for-cast-storage-service-and-postgresql/action-items-after-changing-the-operator-user-password-when-using-cast-console/.

2.11.14-funcrel

Notes

This extension has been withdrawn.

2.11

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.11.17-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
56952	Resolved an issue where the Jenkins plugin incorrectly reported “CAST analysis completed with unstable result” even when the analysis/snapshot had no warnings or errors. The misleading message was triggered solely by analysis indicator alerts (e.g., low scores for metrics such as AEFP/AEP or data entities used by transactions), which should not cause an unstable status. The plugin now correctly distinguishes between actual analysis failures and informational indicator alerts.
56502	Conditionally update the dataflow option. Fix the issue where dataflow option was updated even when no related technology was onboarded. Dataflow option now operates when either JEE or .NET technology is found.
53260	The “Publish-Imaging” command in AIP Console Tools now works regardless of whether the ‘Onboard Application’ mode is enabled, allowing data to be published to CAST Imaging for both legacy and onboarded applications.
53228	The “Publish-Imaging” command in AIP Console Tools now works regardless of whether the ‘Onboard Application’ mode is enabled, allowing data to be published to CAST Imaging for both legacy and onboarded applications.
56841	Added missing objectives for Deliver and AddVersion CLI commands. In addition to –enable-data-safety-investigation parameter, -gdpr and –pci-dss were added to cover all supported objectives.

2.11 - Workaround for issue with JAR installers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Issue description

It is impossible to run any executable JAR Dashboard installer (whether Engineering, Health, Security or combined Engineering/Health) on a Microsoft Windows serverwhen the target server already has a Dashboard 2.11.1, 2.11.2 or 2.11.3 (whether Engineering, Health, Security or combined Engineering/Health) installed on it. The symptoms are as follows:

When the new executable JAR installer is double clicked, the initial User Account Control prompt is displayed and then nothing happens.
If the new executable JAR installer is launched from the command line using the syntax java -jar name_of_jar_file.jar then the following error message is displayed:

Cannot find named resource: 'userInputLang.xml' AND 'userInputLang.xml_eng'
SEVERE: com.izforge.izpack.api.exception.IzPackException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

If you are facing this issue, you should make the changes described below and then re-run the new installer.

2.11.x-funcrel - Instructions for 35820 customer bug fix

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The customer bug 35820 (the erroneous display in CAST Imaging of Technologies modules automatically configured by Console) has been addressed in a specific way because it was not possible to fix this directly in CAST Imaging. To resolve this issue, specific actions must be performed, and these are listed below:

Ensure you are running CAST Imaging ≥ 2.11.x
Ensure that the latest release of the following extension com.castsoftware.moduledefinitiontypes(this extension categorises all modules) is installed in CAST Console for the application(s) in question (note that if you are using CAST Console ≥ 2.4.x, this extension will be automatically installed unless this mechanism has been manually disabled)
Perform a new analysis/snapshot for all impacted applications in CAST Console to ensure that the **com.castsoftware.moduledefinitiontypes**is executed
Perform a new export/import of the application data into CAST Imaging - ensure that you either:
- Use the automatic import/export mechanism built into CAST Console (which uses the import/export tools shipped with CAST Imaging ≥ 2.11.x)
- Use the manual import/export tools shipped with CAST Imaging ≥ 2.11.x
On completion of the import/export process, ensure that no Technologies modules are visible in CAST Imaging under the User Guide - Module scope

2.12 - CVE fix impacts

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Issue description

As part of the process of fixing (in v. 2.12.8) a CVE found in CAST Security Dashboard (CVE-2025-24813), you should be aware of two impacts that require user intervention:

Using JAR installers to install CAST Security Dashboard

If you install CAST Security Dashboard using the Java JAR installers and you intend to run an in-place update to the ≥ 2.12.8 release you must ensure that you modify the following files post installation before restarting the dashboard:

2.12 - Workaround for change of metric ID (Application Components tile in Engineering Dashboard)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Issue description

LOC (line of code) values reported by the Application Components tile in the Engineering Dashboard now use the metric ID 66071 which is generated by CAST Imaging/CAST Console during the application onboarding process (when using fastscan mode). In previous releases, the CAST Engineering Dashboard exclusively used the metric ID 10151 which was generated only during the analysis. If the issue is present, the Application Components tile will show no value for the Lines of Code entry at all and you will need to perform a manual update to ensure the correct metric ID is configured in your Dashboard (see below).

2.13 - Workaround for change of metric ID (Technical Size tile in Management Dashboard)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Issue description

LOC (line of code) values reported by the Technical Size tile in the Management Dashboard now use the metric ID 66071 which is generated by CAST Imaging/CAST Console during the application onboarding process (when using fastscan mode). In previous releases, the CAST Management Dashboard exclusively used the metric ID 10151 which was generated only during the analysis. If the issue is present, the Technical Size tile will show no value at all and you will need to perform a manual update to ensure the correct metric ID is configured in your Dashboard (see below).

2.18

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.18.2-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-12442	Fixes Welcome Page loading time.
IMAGSYS-12337	Fixes the Containerization spelling error in Guided search.
IMAGSYS-12214	Remove retry mechanism or keep limit for any failed query during import.
IMAGSYS-12234	Fixes delay in search results for global search.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
44124	Fixes Pop-up which showed the queries used in that program and is not consistent inside the saved views.
44509	Fixes searching for a particular service 4 to 5 duplicate name apprise.
44153	Fixes and issue wherein Imaging did not respond and no applications were found to search.
44385	Fixes an issue wherein the entry point object type in Imaging was changed compared to TCC due to which user was unable to consume results produced by Get Start and End points feature.

Recommendations

Recommendation Id	New Recommendation	Details
1202083	TRUE	Move to Amazon Web Services: “Ensure PL/SQL package Oracle UTL_MAIL or UTL_SMTP is not used”.
1202064	FALSE	Move to Amazon Web Services/Modernistation/Move to Azure: “CICS DataSet files: Programs/utilities manipulating data” (rule updated).
1202230	TRUE	Move to Amazon Web Services/Modernistation/Move to Azure: “IMS GSAM Files defined but not storing data”.
1202085	TRUE	Move to Amazon Web Services/Modernistation/Move to Azure: “Cobol Program accessing IMS DB Segment”.
1202082	TRUE	Move to Amazon Web Services: “Ensure PL/SQL package DBMS_SCHEDULER is not used”.
1202178	TRUE	SQL Server Database to Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL: Object Type Remediation.
1202207	TRUE	Green Screen access by program linked to database storage.
1202208	TRUE	Green screen accessed by program linked to MQ utilities.
1202209	TRUE	Green screen accessed by program linked to datafile storage.
1202212	TRUE	Missing Green Screens.
1202214	TRUE	Cobol Program using CICS transactions.
1202215	TRUE	Unknown CICS Transactions.
1106130	TRUE	Ensure DATETIMEOFFSET data type is not used.
1106128	TRUE	Ensure NCHAR data type is not used.
1106126	TRUE	Ensure NTEXT data type is not used.
1106124	TRUE	Ensure NVARCHAR data type is not used.
1106122	TRUE	Ensure ROWVERSION data type is not used.
1106120	TRUE	Ensure SMALLMONEY data type is not used.
1106118	TRUE	Ensure TIMESTAMP data type is not used.
1106116	TRUE	Ensure TINYINT data type is not used.
1106114	TRUE	Ensure VARBINARY data type is not used.
1106112	TRUE	Ensure FROM keyword is used in DELETE Statement.
1106144	TRUE	Ensure SQL Server SET/SELECT variable is not used.
1106140	TRUE	Ensure SQL server Scalar Function ISNULL is not used
1106138	TRUE	Ensure SQL server Scalar Function GETDATE is not used.
1106136	TRUE	Ensure SQL server Scalar Function DATEDIFF is not used.
1106134	TRUE	Ensure SQL server Scalar Function DATEADD is not used.
1106132	TRUE	Ensure SQL server Scalar Function CONVERT is not used.
1106110	TRUE	Ensure MERGE statement is not used.

2.18.1-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - Advisor Enhancements	Introduced screens for displaying intermediate branching steps for smooth navigation to the checks. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+GUI+-+Welcome+Page+-+Imaging+Advisor#UserGuideGUIWelcomePageImagingAdvisor-%E2%89%A52.19.
UI - Global Search Improvements	An explicit search button is added to fetch the results in global search. Search can also be triggered by pressing ‘Enter’ key. The input text and search is disabled when search is in progress. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Search+for+items#UserGuideSearchforitems-Objectsearch.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-12007	Fixes an issue wherin the “Remove” and “Hide Object” context menu options were displayed on the custom object node.
IMAGSYS-11371	Fixes link direction in “Path Finder”.
IMAGSYS-11795	Fixes missing icons in the “Third Party Components view”.
IMAGSYS-11981	Fixes an issue wherein duplicate “Select” options were displayed in the left panel of Advisor.
IMAGSYS-11932	Fixes an issue filtering by object type was not working properly.
IMAGSYS-11991	Fixes an issue wherein the “OR” filter between “Tag” and “Object type” was displaying AND results.
IMAGSYS-11988	Fixes the Transaction count issue in Welcome Page.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
43964	Fixed header icons overlapping on each other while resizing the screen. Also, fixed overlap in scope dropdown on vertical screen resize.
43961	Fixes an issue wherein the search text is getting cleared in current view search after selecting one object from the dropdown.
43955	Fixes the persistence of visual grouping on tab change. Links were not retained in the old tab, if any new tab was opened.
43834	Module details are now made available in the export reports in xlsx and csv.
44048	Fixes the colour coding of objects. All objects having same colour made it difficult to analyze. Now, different object types have different colours.
43946	Fixes an issue wherein the advanced global search with option “Any” did not work.
44028	Fixes an issue wherein the advanced global search with option “Any” did not work.
43670	Fixes an issue wherein the “search by file” returned with “500 Internal Server Error”.

2.18.0-funcrel

Note

All new features and improvements added in previous 2.18.0 beta releases are also included in this release. See the corresponding release notes for more information.

2.2.2 - Summary of UI changes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

This release brings some changes to the UI with regard to:

adding a new version or version n+1
labels for the interactive list of action steps

These changes are designed to simplify and remove complexity during the onboarding process. There is no impact to the actual functioning of Console, however, some options, steps and labels have been merged, renamed or moved. The main changes are listed below.

Note

Note that these changes to the onboarding process will continue in future releases of Console. Documentation has therefore not been updated - this will be done when the ongoing changes are complete.

2.3.1 - Summary of changes to the onboarding process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

In this release of Console, fundamental changes have been made to the application onboarding process (i.e. the delivery of application source code, analysis, snapshot generation) for new applications. These changes are provided in “beta” alongside the existing application onboarding process and you can therefore choose whether you want to onboard exactly as in previous releases or whether you want to try out the new process.

The main changes associated with the new onboarding process are listed below and are explained in more detail later in this page:

2.4.0 - Summary of changes to the onboarding process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Following on from the changes to the onboarding workflow introduced in 2.3.1 (see 2.3.1 - Summary of changes to the onboarding process), additional changes have been added in this release as detailed below.

Restrictions on applications in discovered state

When the initial phase of an application onboarding has been completed using the new workflow, and the application is in “discovered” state (see image below) some restrictions have been implemented in the Admin Center because the application has not yet been created (this is done when the source code is sent for analysis).

2.6 - Enterprise mode - global installer - beta

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

See 2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of Console front-end via global Windows Installer.

2.7 - Log Service - beta

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

See Log Service installation.

2.8 - Switch from legacy to fast scan onboarding mode

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note that legacy onboarding mode is deprecated and you should use Fast Scan mode wherever possible.

Introduction

It is now possible to switch applications from onboarding without Fast Scan (legacy) to fast scan onboarding mode using the CAST Console UI. Some of the benefits of switching to fast scan mode are as follows:

A new step “fast scan” will evaluate your programming languages and frameworks and alert you if something is missing - see also Application onboarding with Fast Scan - validate the Fast Scan
The analysis process is faster and easier to use
The current state of the application is the only information available in Console, making it less confusing about what Console is showing.

Info

This switch feature is currently in beta and is available in ≥ 2.8.

2.8.0-funcrel only - Manual update for instances running on custom front-end port

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A known issue is present in 2.8.0-funcrel ONLY (fixed in 2.8.1-funcrel) which prevents applications from being imported when the CAST Imaging instance runs on a custom front-end port. An error states that the current license key is not valid, when in fact it is. To resolve this issue, edit the following file:

Microsoft Windows traditional installer:
%APPDATA%\CAST\ImagingSystem\imagingservice\imagingetl.bat
 
Docker Installer extension (located in the folder created when unzipping the extension):
etl/app.config

In this file, add a new entry HTTP_ENDPOINT and specify the URL to your CAST Imaging instance. For example, add the following if your instance is running on port 443 (https):

2.9 - Automatic UTF-8 conversion feature

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

See Configuring the automatic UTF-8 conversion feature.

2.9.0-funcrel - Manual update for Microsoft Windows users synchronizing data from AIP Console

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A known issue is present in2.9.0-funcrel (fixed planned for 2.9.1-funcrel) deployed from the Microsoft Windows installer which causes a failure during the application export/import process specifically when synchronizing data directly from AIP Console. To resolve this issue, edit the following file with a text editor:

%APPDATA%\CAST\ImagingSystem\imagingservice\imagingetl.bat

Find the following line in the file which contains an erroneous path:

-ETL_AUTOMATION_BINARY_PATH="<PATH>" ^

Edit the line and ensure that the path points to the following location:

2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Docker or Docker Desktop

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: how to perform a 2.x installation on Docker or Docker Desktop.

Introduction

In ≥ 2.0.0-funcrel, CAST provides a .yml file that is used to install the Console front-end in “enterprise mode” on Docker (Linux) or Docker Desktop (Microsoft Windows) as part of the download media available on CAST Extend (https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aip.console&version=latest):

Info

If you are not able to use Docker / Docker Desktop, please see 2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Java JAR installers for an alternative enterprise deployment option.

8.3.40 - Additional notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Additional notes for the features and improvements introduced in AIP Core 8.3.40.

Changes to rules flagged as critical

AIP Core 8.3.40 implements a feature improvement that is designed to reduce the number of rules provided by CAST (whether in AIP Core or in an official extension) that are flagged as critical. Over time, as more and more rules have been created by CAST, the list of rules that are flagged as critical has also grown. This has inevitably led to a situation where there are a large number of critical rules producing violations and it is therefore difficult to know where to focus the remediation efforts.

ACH - Access Rights

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Starting from CAST AIP 8.3.23, CAST Architecture Checker will no longer be installed as part of the CAST AIP setup, whether installing CAST AIP from scratch or on a server where a previous release of CAST AIP exists. CAST Architecture Checker has evolved into a standalone component where all feature requests and bug fixes are now managed. This standalone component can be downloaded from CAST Extend(https://extendng.castsoftware.com/#/search-results?q=archichecker).

Up-to-date documentation can be found here: CAST Architecture Checker.

ACH - Action menu

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Up-to-date documentation can be found here: CAST Architecture Checker.

ACH - Contacting CAST

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Up-to-date documentation can be found here: CAST Architecture Checker.

ACH - Layers and Sets window

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Up-to-date documentation can be found here: CAST Architecture Checker.

Admin Center - Bulk importing documents or tags via .CSV file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This feature is available in CAST Imaging ≥ 2.13.
A user with the ADMIN or SUPER ADMIN role is required.

Introduction

It is possible to bulk import documentation or tags via a .CSV file - i.e. you can import multiple documents (see User Guide - Using the Annotate feature for more information) and/or tags (see User Guide - Working with tags) for multiple objects at the same time, rather than having to create them all manually in the UI. To do so:

Admin Center - License management panel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to manage license keys (for CAST and also for OpenAI).

Note

A user with the ADMIN or SUPER ADMIN role is required.

Introduction

This panel enables you to manage two different license keys as follows:

CAST Imaging license key

When you want to access and import application data into CAST Imaging, a license key is required. There are various types of key that can be inputted, and all restrict the user in some way, for example:

Administration Center - Security - User Roles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to manage User Roles in Console.

Note

Note that in **Console ≥2.x:

global roles are managed in SSO/Keycloak see Configure authentication and roles using Keycloak - v. 2.x.
resource level roles for user access are managed in Console, see below.

Introduction

Console uses a system of “roles” to manage permissions and access to data. Currently the following roles are available:

Role name Type Description

admin

Global

This Global level role allows a user or member of a group to administer the entire Console, including:

Administration Center - Settings - Allow CAST to collect anonymous statistical data automatically

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In order to provide an estimate of the time required to fully analyze a given application version, CAST needs to collect anonymous data relating to the volume of files to be analyzed, the performance/specification of the analysis server and the actual time taken to perform analyses and generate snapshots. The data collected by Console will be stored by CAST on its CAST Extend server and will not contain any information that would allow the identification of any customer related information or application. The data stored by CAST is purely statistical and is related only to the size and duration of analyses and snapshot generation (an example of the data collected by CAST is available for download in .json format). The richer the database of information we hold, the more accurate the estimation will be.

Administration Center - Settings - Dashboard Integration

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This panel provides settings for the CAST dashboard integration process, described in more detail in Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process:

Console ≥ 2.x

This option performs an update to ensure that the embedded Dashboard integration settings are correct. No other options are available or necessary.

If you are using Console Enterprise mode in Docker, then your embedded Dashboards will be preconfigured and no action is required.
If you are using Console Enterprise mode via Java JAR installers, OR you are using Console Standalone, this button should be used following the installation of the embedded RestAPI to configure the embedded Dashboards. See Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process using Java JAR installer.

Console ≥ 1.25

Administration Center - Settings - Extensions Strategy

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: documentation for the Extensions Strategy panel in the Console Administration Center.

Options available here are global to ALL Applications managed in Console. Note that this page describes settings available only in CAST Console ≤ 2.7. For newer releases, please see Administration Center - Extensions Strategy instead.

Introduction

The Extensions Strategy setting provides various options for managing at a global level (i.e. for all Applications managed in the Console) the extensions that are used in each Application analysis. The main objective of these options is to ensure that the extensions that are available for use in an analysis by an Application owner or Analysis Manager can be controlled - for example, admins can choose to do any of the following:

Advanced - Configuring results for the Code Viewer and for Metrics data

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In order for the Code Viewer in CAST Enlighten (a feature that allows you to view the source code of objects and files stored in the CAST Analysis Service using a copy of the source code located on a local or network hard drive) and for the calculation of metrics data (on objects and files stored in the CAST Analysis Service for use with the CAST Engineering Dashboard) to function correctly with objects that have been imported into the CAST Analysis Service via the Universal Importer, certain criteria must be met.

Advanced onboarding for CAST Imaging - add a new version and deliver source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

To perform this step, your AIP Console login must have the Application Owner role at a minimum.

Introduction

In the AIP Console, source code for a given Application is organised into v****ersions - the idea being that you can create new Versions when the Application’s source code changes and you want to measure these changes. When working with a new Application, an initial version first needs to be created and source code delivered so that it can be analyzed. This page describes how to do this.

Advanced onboarding for CAST Imaging - validate Dynamic Links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

See Validate Dynamic Links for more information about this.

Advanced rescan - add a new version and deliver source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

To perform this step, your AIP Console login must have the Application Owner role at a minimum.

Introduction

When you want to perform an Advanced rescan, this means that you would like to be able to control the required steps and make changes to the configuration that was used in the previous version analysis/snapshot.

Info

Run analysis should be disabled

In an advanced rescan scenario, we do not want to run an analysis or generate a snapshot as part of the new version creation process, therefore we must ensure that the Run analysis option is disabled (this also hides the Take a snapshot option) when uploading the source code (this option can be enabled in a Standard rescan scenario where you simply want results quickly) - this option is explained fully below:

Advanced rescan for CAST Imaging - add a new version and deliver source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

To perform this step, your AIP Console login must have the Application Owner role at a minimum.

Introduction

Info

Run analysis should be disabled

In an advanced rescan scenario, we do not want to run an analysis or publish to CAST Imaging as part of the new version creation process, therefore we must ensure that the Run analysis option is disabled when uploading the source code (this option can be enabled in a Standard rescan for CAST Imaging scenario where you simply want results quickly) - this option is explained fully below:

AIP Console - 2.x - Main updates and new features

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Security/authentication approach

The Console authentication providerhas been totally restructured and now uses the open-source OAuth2 compatible **Keycloak**system. Keycloak provides local authentication, and can also interact with other enterprise authentication systems such as LDAP and SAML. This change greatly simplifies the configuration of the authentication method you choose.

As a result of this change:

Console no longer provides any built in authentication mechanisms configured in .properties files. Users, user roles and identity providers are all configured directly in Keycloak.
There is no admin user selection in the initial start-up wizard because the first admin user is now created directly in Keycloak (see Configure authentication and roles using Keycloak - v. 2.x).
The Security tab has been removed from the Administration Center because global level roles are now configured directly in Keycloak (see Configure authentication and roles using Keycloak - v. 2.x). Resource level roles are still configured directly Console (see Administration Center - Security - User Roles).
Resource level roles have been simplified: there is now one single role available called Resource Owner. This role is similar to the Application Owner role available in Console v 1.x.

Node instances

All registered Nodes are shown in the Nodes tab in Administration Center as in v. 1.x:

AIP Console - Administration Center Configuration

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to the configuration of the administration center options of the CAST AIP Console.

CAST AIP Console is a front end web application which provides a means to configure, run, and manage CAST AIP analyses on multiple analysis machines.

CAST AIP Console gives an Application Overview showing the application state regarding versions, analysis and snapshots, Technologies and framework identification and Matching technology between Tech Survey and source code delivered

AIP Console - AIP Console Tools - Jenkins plugin - Console URL not accessible using Jenkins Plugin

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to the error “ERROR: Unable to access to AIP Console at the following URL : https://:8080”, which may happen while accessing the AIP Console URL from the Jenkins.

The Jenkins plugin allows you to automate some parts of using AIP Console, like delivering source code, running an application analysis, or generating a snapshot through Jenkins.

Unable to send request
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

 at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:141)

 at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:126)

 at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:280)

 at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:392)

Caused: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed

Applicable Platform

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Add Delete Application - Error connecting to database - Cannot Connect Database on CastStorageService

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve an issue that occurs in AIP Console, while adding a new application whereby it throw’s an error while connecting to the database.

Error connecting to database - Can’t Connect Database xxxxxxxxxxxx.yyyyyyyy.zzzzzz.rds.amazonaws.com:15131 on CastStorageService

FATAL: remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections.

This error is normally a database configuration issue.

Applicable Platform

AIP Platform	Yes/No
CAST AIP 8.3	✅

AIP Console Version	Yes/No
AIP Console 1.8.x or greater	✅

Action Plan

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Add version - Attaching packages step - ERROR IOException during extraction of archive XYZ.castextraction - java.io.IOException- Truncated ZIP file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to failure at the attaching packages step while adding a version of an application to the CAST AIP Console.

The error encountered is IOException during extraction of archive XYZ.castextraction java.io.IOException: Truncated ZIP file

Applicable Platform

AIP Platform	Yes/No
CAST AIP 8.3	✅

AIP Console Version	Yes/No
AIP Console 1.8.x or greater	✅

Action Plan

If while adding a version in AIP Console, it fails at the step copying and attaching packages

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Attaching package to version - ERROR an error - ORA-12801

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to failure at attaching package to version while adding the version of an application to CAST AIP Console.

CAST AIP Console is a front-end web application that provides a means to configure, run, and manage CAST AIP analyses on multiple analysis machines.

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Create Package - Fatal error - The delivery contains no package to deliver

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to the error during Create package step.

Applicable Platform

AIP Platform	Yes/No
CAST AIP 8.3	✅

AIP Console Version	Yes/No
AIP Console 1.8.x or greater	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Add New version from AIP Console
Select the source zip
Add necessary exclusions.
Run the Add version task.
Fails with error during the Create Package Step.

12:37:15.281 [getMultipleThreadsTaskExecutor-5] ERROR com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.ApplicationJob - Encountered interruption executing job
com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.JobInterruptedException: The delivery contains no package to deliver.
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.steps.dmt.CreatePackageStep.doPackage(CreatePackageStep.java:56) ~[aip-node-services-1.28.5.jar!/:1.28.5]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.steps.dmt.DmtPackageStep.doExecute(DmtPackageStep.java:265) ~[aip-node-services-1.28.5.jar!/:1.28.5]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.steps.DmtCliJobStep.execute(DmtCliJobStep.java:84) ~[aip-node-services-1.28.5.jar!/:1.28.5]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.ApplicationJob.doExecute(ApplicationJob.java:182) ~[aip-node-services-1.28.5.jar!/:1.28.5]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.ApplicationJob.execute(ApplicationJob.java:116) [aip-node-services-1.28.5.jar!/:1.28.5]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.JobThread.run(JobThread.java:41) [aip-node-services-1.28.5.jar!/:1.28.5]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:1.8.0_302]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0_302]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_302]

Action Plan

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Deliver Version - DMT configuration deleted if Delivery not done

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When using the AIP console, the DMT configuration configuration is deleted if the delivery is not done.

Observed in AIP console versions

Release	Yes/No
1.8	✅
1.9	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Create packages in AIP Console
Save configuration and Quit without doing a Deliver action
Configuration and packaging information is found deleted when logging back in

Action Plan

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Version Overview - Error - DSS snapshot cannot be found

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When trying to view the details of the version, we get the error -

12:32:46.319 [getMultipleThreadsTaskExecutor-1] ERROR com.castsoftware.aip.node.services.overview.ApplicationOverviewServiceImpl - Unable to get snapshot details
com.castsoftware.aip.node.services.snapshots.SnapshotDetailsException: DSS snapshot cannot be found
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.services.snapshots.SnapshotServiceImpl.addSnapshotDetails(SnapshotServiceImpl.java:131) ~[aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.services.overview.ApplicationOverviewServiceImpl.lambda$collectOverviewData$4(ApplicationOverviewServiceImpl.java:172) ~[aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at java.util.Optional.ifPresent(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_202]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.services.overview.ApplicationOverviewServiceImpl.collectOverviewData(ApplicationOverviewServiceImpl.java:172) [aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.services.applications.ImportApplicationServiceImpl.updateVersionsAndSnapshots(ImportApplicationServiceImpl.java:297) [aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.steps.ResyncApplicationStep.execute(ResyncApplicationStep.java:67) [aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.ApplicationJob.doExecute(ApplicationJob.java:182) [aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.ApplicationJob.execute(ApplicationJob.java:116) [aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.jobs.JobThread.run(JobThread.java:41) [aip-node-services-1.25.2.jar!/:1.25.2]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_202]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_202]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_202]

AIP Console - Application Scan - Customized Assessment Model - Changes not taken into account

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The page helps you create a customized assessment model in AIP Console for an application.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
1.12.0	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Customize an assessment model in CAST-MS and export it to a local *.pmx file;
Modify the aip-node properties file to use the pmx file;
Restart the Aip node service;
Relaunch analysis and snapshot in AIP Console for the existing application.
Check results in Dashboard.

Action Plan

AIP Console - Architecture Studio - Model properties

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Each model that is used during a snapshot (whether an Architecture Model or a Quality Rule model) will be visible in the results as a distinct Quality Rule. A Quality Rule has various accompanying values/properties that determine how its results are viewed in the CAST dashboards. These values/properties should be configured for the rules that result from your models.

The properties differ depending on the type of model you are working on:

AIP Console - Compute Snapshot - Fatal Error - Error while executing procedure - duplicate key value violates unique constraint dss_objects_pk

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps to resolve issues related to create snapshot step, when it fails with the following errors " Error: Child task on exception
and Error while executing Procedure, ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint “dss_objects_pk”.

Applicable Platform or

CAST AIP	Yes/No
8.3.45	✅

AIP Console	Yes/No
1.28.3	✅

Action Plan

Create an SQL tool in tools after analysis.
Add following lines in SQL editor:

AIP Console - Dashboard Configuration Issues - Integrated EH dashboards installation failed to create the service properly

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

In CAST AIP Console 1.27.0, it is observed that, post-installation of CAST AIP Console Embedded Dashboard, referring to the page: Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process

integrated EH dashboards installation failed to create the service properly.

Applicable Platform

AIP Platform	Yes/No
CAST AIP 8.3	✅

AIP Console Version	Yes/No
AIP Console 1.27.0	✅

Action Plan

In CAST AIP Console 1.27.0, it is observed that post installing the CAST AIP Console Embedded Dashboard, referring page: Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process

AIP Console - Extend - Error - Unable to Access Extend though Console

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When trying to access the CAST Extend through the Console, it gives the error - “Unable to access the CAST Extend server with the provided information.

But when trying to access Extend through a browser, it works fine.

Observed in AIP console versions

Release	Yes/No
till 1.23.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

AIP Console - Extend - Offline extend - GUI Hangs - Unstable Extend Service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When navigating to the Overview tab in AIP Console GUI, we see that it does not load -

After a few minutes, we have the below screen -

Observed in CAST Extension Version,

Release	Yes/No
1.18.x	✅
1.17.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Click on the Overview tab in AIP Console for any application.

Action Plan

AIP Console - Information - How to configure the AIP Console to access the extension Server when a proxy is installed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on how to configure the AIP Console to access the extension server.

For more information on the AIP Console, refer to:

Official documentation for AIP Console: CAST AIP Console
For Standalone Extension server, please see this page: Install and configure the offline Extend package

CAST Component Version

Release	Yes/No
1.8	✅
1.9	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Details

AIP Console - Installation - AIP Console Service is stopping abruptly with open JDK- ERROR - BeanPostProcessor before instantiation of bean failed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to you resolve the error -

“Error creating bean with name ‘org.springframework.transaction.annotation.ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration’: BeanPostProcessor before instantiation of bean failed”

when trying to run Console service, which is getting stopped abruptly.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
1.23.0	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Install CAST AIP Core
Install CAST Storage Service
Install open OPEN JDK
Install CAST AIP Console
Start AIP console and node Services

Error stack is shown below:

AIP Console - Logging mechanisms

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This page describes how logging functions in Console.

Introduction

Console provides its own logging mechanism and also makes use of each analyzer’s logging mechanism available on each Node.

Viewing logs in Console

There are two ways to view logs in Console:

View log option

On completion of each action, use the View Log option. A log is available for each step in the process that has been run:

AIP Console - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AIP Console (https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aip.console&version=latest) Release Notes can be found here: Release Notes.

AIP Console - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AIP Console (https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aip.console&version=latest) was first released with support for AIP for Imaging on 8 February 2021 as 1.21-funcrel.
Release Notes can be found here: Release Notes.

AIP Console - Running AIP Console/Node Services - The Console does not indicate when the service is down

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When the AIP Console service is down, there is no information about this on the GUI and the AIP Console URL still works from the cache.

Observed in AIP console versions

Release	Yes/No
1.16	✅
1.15	✅
1.14	✅
1.13	✅
1.12	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Stop the Console service from the services tab.

AIP Console - Upgrade - AIP Console Service does not start after upgrade

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

After upgrading AIP Console to 1.26 from 1.24.3, it is observed that the AIP Console service is not starting.

Error stack is as shown below -

11:17:27.448 [main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: You cannot use a spring-security-2.0.xsd or spring-security-3.0.xsd or spring-security-3.1.xsd schema or spring-security-3.2.xsd schema or spring-security-4.0.xsd schema with Spring Security 5.4. Please update your schema declarations to the 5.4 schema.
Offending resource: URL [file:C:/ProgramData/CAST/AipConsole/AipConsole/application-security-local.xml]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.fatal(FailFastProblemReporter.java:62) ~[spring-beans-5.3.9.jar!/:5.3.9]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.fatal(ReaderContext.java:90) ~[spring-beans-5.3.9.jar!/:5.3.9]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.fatal(ReaderContext.java:68) ~[spring-beans-5.3.9.jar!/:5.3.9]

AIP Console - User Profile options

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to update your user profile and associated options.

Note

The profile option is NOT available when using “standalone” Console mode.

Accessing your user profile

You can access your user profile by clicking your user login name in the upper right corner and selecting Profile:

The profile screen will then display:

Click to enlarge

Available options

API Key

When third-party applications need to interact with the Console API, it is possible to generate an API key in Console and use that key to access the required resources securely. Traditional user/password credentials are deemed a security risk and can also expire causing recurring problems when the Console API resources are used for automation purposes. An API key solves these issues and CAST recommends using one wherever possible.

AIP Console package - front-end installation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Depending on the release of Console you are using and the deployment mode/scenario you wish to use, there are various installers available (see Deployment requirements for more information about architecture/modes/scenarios):

Release	Deployment mode	Deployment scenario	Installation instructions
2.x	Enterprise	Docker for Linux or Docker Desktop for Microsoft Windows	2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Docker or Docker Desktop
Enterprise	Single installer (exe) for Microsoft Windows only	2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of Console front-end via global Windows Installer
Enterprise	Java JAR installers (multiple) for Microsoft Windows only	2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Java JAR installers
Standalone	Java JAR installer (single) for Microsoft Windows only	2.x - Standalone mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end in standalone mode
1.x	-	Java JAR installer (single)	1.x - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Java JAR installers

AIP Console package - front-end installation for CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Release	Deployment mode	Deployment scenario	Installation instructions
2.x	Enterprise	Docker for Linux or Docker Desktop for Microsoft Windows	2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Docker or Docker Desktop
Enterprise	Single installer (exe) for Microsoft Windows only	2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of Console front-end via global Windows Installer
Enterprise	Java JAR installers (multiple) for Microsoft Windows only	2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Java JAR installers
Standalone	Java JAR installer (single) for Microsoft Windows only	2.x - Standalone mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end in standalone mode
1.x	-	Java JAR installer (single)	1.x - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Java JAR installers

AIP Core

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AIP Core for Security (https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aipsecurity&version=latest) was first released on 30 November 2018 as 8.3.7. Release Notes can be accessed here: Release Notes.

AIP Core upgrade

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes the upgrade process for AIP Core. This process must be repeated on each AIP Node you want to upgrade to a new release of AIP Core. When AIP Core has been upgraded, you must then perform an Application and schema upgrade to upgrade your Applications and their associated schemas to match the new AIP Core release.

Step 1 - Run the installer

Right click the setup.bat file located in the folder created during the unzip process and choose Run as Administrator in the contextual menu:

AnaMan - Snapshot Preparation Assistant - Information - Snapshot Preparation Assistant phases

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

Introduction

There are 3 main phases:

#Initialization
#Processing functional modules
#Updating CAST Systems Views
#Compute metrics

Initialization

This phase occurs between the following messages:
‘Selection successfully built in the Knowledge Base’
and
‘Loading default options.’

In this phase the Snapshot Preparation Assistant retrieve information from the Knowledge Base, so some procedures and queries are executed on the Knowledge Base.
Note: In case of T-SQL and ASP technologies the SPA generate one query per object.

Application - Config - Analysis - Manual dependency configuration

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Available in v. ≥ 1.27.

Introduction

Dependencies are an important component of the CAST analysis process: they determine some client/client and client/server links between objects. For the vast majority of situations, dependencies are automatically configured by Console at Application level foreach technology and are configured between individual Analysis Units/groups of Analysis Units. You can find out more about them in Validate dependency configuration.

Sometimes, however, dependencies are not configured automatically by Console, particularly for languages managed via the Universal Analyzer - typically HTML5/JavaScript, SQL etc.) and this can sometimes lead to missing links and therefore issues with transactions and other analysis results produced by CAST. In this situation, during the analysis review and configuration (as explained in Application onboarding with Fast Scan - validate the results) dependencies may need to be created manually, however, this can be a time consuming process.

Application - Config - Reference Finder

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Info

Summary: this section explains how to work with the Reference Finder feature.

Introduction

The Reference Finder feature enables you to define one or multiple rules at Application level to search for links (i.e. aword, series of wordsorstring(based on Regular Expressions)) between Source and Target code when an analysis is run. The Reference Finder is an extension of the Dependencies feature managed in the Application - Config - Analysis panel: in the Dependencies feature, references are traced using search strings which is less selective than parser based technology used for other links traced by the analyzer. This technology detects a reference to an object wherever its name is mentioned, regardless of the context in which this reference occurs. As a result, incorrect links may be traced if a string happens to match a given name even if it is not logically related to the corresponding object. As a result you may have to intervene to filter incorrect references. Refer to the Application - Config - Summary of Dynamic Links for more details on how to ignore these ambiguous links.

Application - Function Points - Overview

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Info

This panel will not contain any information until a snapshot is generated.

Info

If your global license key does not grant you the right to count Function Points, a banner message will be displayed explaining this situation:

Click to enlarge

The Overview panel shows information about:

Automated Function Points (AFP)

The total number of Automated Function Points (AFP) identified in the Application during the analysis/snapshot, divided into:

Application - Overview with Fast Scan - Header

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Note

The Overview with Fast Scan panel is part of the onboarding workflow introduced in 2.3.1. It will only be populated when this onboarding workflow is enabled and used - see Administration Center - Settings - Application Onboarding. See also Workflow - Application onboarding with Fast Scan.

The Header section provides basic information about the source code that has been delivered:

Click to expand

Last action date & time Date and time the application was onboarded. When new source code is uploaded, this value will update.

Status

Indicates the current state of the application:

Application - Transactions - Call Graph

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section provides information about using the Call Graph with Transactions in Console.

Introduction

Console provides a graphical representation of an object’s call links to enable you to quickly view how Data Entities and Transactions interact with each other. You can click one object and see a graphical representation of all of the other objects that it calls and it is called by:

Accessing the Call Graph

The Call Graph can be accessed for a Transaction or Data Entity object as follows:

Application - Transactions - Overview

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The Overview panel shows information about:

the total number of Transactions identified in the Application during the analysis (a snapshot is not required).
the number of complete/incomplete Transactions - the number of complete and incomplete Transactions will equal the total number of Transactions.

Click to enlarge

Info

A Transaction is deemed to beincomplete when it does not reach an end-point or a data entity. These incomplete Transactions are “empty Transactional Functions” with a Function Point value of 0.

Application and schema upgrade using AIP Console

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Info

Summary: this page discusses how to use AIP Console****to perform an application and schema upgrade. You must log in to AIP Console with a user that has the ADMIN role in order to run an upgrade.

Introduction

In what releases is this supported?


AIP Console	≥ 1.24
AIP Core	When upgrading to ≥ 8.38. To upgrade to older AIP Core releases, please use an alternative method.

What actions does CAST Console perform during an upgrade?

The following actions are performed when you run an upgrade using CAST Console:

Application Components tile

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This tile displays two pieces of information:

the total number of modules in the application
the total number of lines of code (LOC) in the analyzed results.

Clicking the tile will take you directly to the Application Investigation view.

Configuration

type: tile type has to be ComponentInvestigationOverview
parameters
- metric the LOC metric ID
color : tile color
other parameters for sizing and positioning of the tile - see**Tile Sizing and Positioning**

Example

Application Onboarding Process with AIP Console

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Version 4.2

Modified 11 Dec 2023

Table of Contents

Purpose

This document details CAST’s Agile Onboarding Process and the checklist templates used. The agile process is recommended to implement in a measurement program with .management visibility – it helps in quick onboarding with minimal technical documents needed from the application team.

Applicability

An Iterative Agile process is recommended to implement a measurement program with management visibility – it helps in quick onboarding with minimal technical documents needed from app teams and helps to avoid tunnel effects. Agile onboarding will have three iterations and will not have any custom solution implemented.

Application onboarding with Fast Scan - onboard your application source code

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Start the onboarding

Info

To onboard an application, your Console login must have the Admin or Application Owner role.

Move to the Console screen if you are not already there:

Click the Onboard application button:

Define your application and source code

After clicking Onboard application, the following screen is displayed allowing you to define your application and source code:

Application name

Enter a name for the application that represents the source code you are uploading:

Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Add a new Application

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Info

To add a new Application, your Console login must have the Admin or Application Owner role.

Move to the Console screen, if you are not already there:

Click the Add Application button:


No existing Applications
Existing Applications

A floating dialog box will prompt you to fill in details for the new Application:

Application Name

A name for the Application.

The following characters are not authorized in Application names : \ / : * ? " < > | &
Identical Application names are not authorized.
Application names are case insensitive, therefore attempting to create an application called TEST when test already exists will result in an error.

Corresponding schema names created on the PostgreSQL instance

Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Standard onboarding - perform all actions - add version and source code

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Add a version

Info

To add a new Version, your Console login must have the Admin or Application Owner role.

Move to the Console screen if you are not already there:

Find the newly created Application - in this example it is called “MEUDON” - and click the Add Version icon:

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Add source code

Info

To perform this step, your Console login must have the Application Owner**role**.

Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Step-by-step onboarding - Add a new version and deliver source code

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Introduction

In the Console, source code for a given Application is organised into v****ersions - the idea being that you can create new Versions when the Application’s source code changes and you want to measure these changes. When working with a new Application, an initial version first needs to be created and source code delivered so that it can be analyzed. This page describes how to do this.

Info

Analysis should be disabled

Application rescan - prerequisites

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Before beginning the application rescan process, ensure the following prerequisites are completed:

Ensure you have generated a snapshot for the previous version ✅ You should ensure that a snapshot exists for "vN-1" (previous version) of your Application source code. You can check this using the Application - Snapshots screen.

Prepare source code for new version

✅

Oracle Forms/Reports is supported in AIP Console v.≥ 1.17.

You may need to run an extractor before creating the ZIP file to obtain the source code in a format that CAST can interpret. See the following for more information:

Application rescan for CAST Imaging - prerequisites

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Before beginning the application rescan process, ensure the following prerequisites are completed:

Ensure you have published the previous version to CAST Imaging

✅

You should ensure that you have published "vN-1" (previous version) of your Application source code to CAST Imaging. You can check this using the AIP Console - Application Management screen:

Prepare source code for new version

✅

Oracle Forms/Reports is supported in AIP Console v.≥ 1.17.

You may need to run an extractor before creating the ZIP file to obtain the source code in a format that CAST can interpret. See the following for more information:

Application Servers - Apache Tomcat - Error - 403 Access Denied

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when you get the error 403 Access Denied after trying to access the tomcat Manager App:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	N/A
8.2.x	N/A
8.1.x	N/A
8.0.x	N/A

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Access tomcat app manager from a browser

Action Plan

If you are using Tomcat version which is higher or equal to v8.5.15 then the issue can be due to the fact that you are trying to access the tomcat Manager App by using the IP Address or the Host-name instead of localhost.

Application Servers Information - Apache Tomcat - Increasing Tomcat memory

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page describes the method to increase tomcat memory

Details

Stop Tomcat (if running).
Launch C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\bin\ tomcat5w.exe (or where is your Tomcat installed)
Go on the java tab
Input the same value for Initial memory pool , and Maximum memory pool.
Default number is 128 MB. This is most of the time insufficient.
Save configuration (saved in Windows registry)
Relaunch Tomcat.

If the error still exists, continue increasing memory until 512MB (or 1024MB) and check if error persists

Application Structure Resources - 1.10.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.11.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.12.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.13.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.14.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.15.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.16.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.17

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.18

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.19

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.20

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.21

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.22

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.23

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.24

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.25

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.26

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.27

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.28

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	integer	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	integer	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 1.7.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.8.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 1.9.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 2.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 2.1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

{
	"href": "ENDTOEND833",
	"name": "ENDTOEND833",
	"dbType": "ADG",
	"version": "8.3.3",
	"schema": "endtoend_833_central",
	"dbmsVersion": "PostgreSQL 9.2.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit",
	"componentsIndexStatus": "upToDate",
	"violationsIndexStatus": "toUpdate",
	"systems": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/systems",
		"name": "All Systems. A system represents a portfolio of applications."
	},
	"applications": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/applications",
		"name": "All Applications. An application represents ..."
	},
	"configurations": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/configuration/snapshots",
		"name": "All configuration snapshots ..."
	},
	"results": {
		"href": "ENDTOEND833/results",
		"name": "Results by snapshots, by systems, by ..."
	},
	"commonCategories": null,
	"tags": null
}

System

Warning

Central Database only

Application Structure Resources - 2.10

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1
technologyResults	For selected domain, return array of reference to get results for each technology	Array	1
technologyResults.href	For each technology present in selected domain, returns reference to get results	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.11

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1
technologyResults	For selected domain, return array of reference to get results for each technology	Array	1
technologyResults.href	For each technology present in selected domain, returns reference to get results	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.12

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1
technologyResults	For selected domain, return array of reference to get results for each technology	Array	1
technologyResults.href	For each technology present in selected domain, returns reference to get results	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.3

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.4

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.5

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.6

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.7

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.8

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Application Structure Resources - 2.9

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Glossary

Term	Definition
Application	An application represents an application as a measurable object. Each application snapshot is a measure point of an application.
Application Snapshot	An application snapshot is a measure point of an application. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time
Attachment	A JSON content attached to an application, it can be a list of frameworks, a survey, etc.
Category	A tag belongs to a category. A category is a set of tags.
Domain	A domain is an identifier of a database. It is defined with a schema name and a connection string to a DBMS.
Module	A module represents a module as a measurable object. Each snapshot of a module is part of an application snapshot.
Module Snapshot	A module snapshot is a measure point of a module. It is made up of a set of data (results, objects, etc.) computed and frozen at a given time. A module snapshot is a part of an application snapshot.
System	A system represents a group of applications.
Tag	A tag is a keyword that can be assigned to an application.
Technology	A subset of source code belonging to a technology (i.e. JEE code , .NET code, ABAP code, etc.)
Tree Node	A structure that organizes application, modules, and components in a tree

Domain

URI Templates

HTTP Action	Media Type	URI Templates	Description
GET	application/json	/	Array of domains
GET	application/json	{Domain}	A domain content

JSON Representation

Properties	Description	Type	Occurs
href	Auto reference	URI	1
name	Domain name	String	1
dbType	Database type either “AAD” for Measurement Service database or “ADG” for Dashboard Service database	String	1
version	Package version of “ADG_FULL_CENTRAL”; which is considered as CAST AIP version number	String	1
schema	Name of the database schema	String	1
dbmsVersion	Product name and version of the Database Management System host	String	1
componentsIndexStatus	Status of the Lucene components index	String	1
violationsIndexStatus	Statuc of the Lucene violations index	String	1
systems.href	For a Central database, reference to get an array of systems	URI	1
applications.href	Reference to get an array of applications	URI	1
nbOfApplications	Returns total applications count present in domain	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedApplications	Returns authorized applications count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
nbOfAuthorizedSnapshots	Returns authorized snapshots count, returns only for domain content (/{domainName})	int	1
configurations.href	Reference to the history of configurations	URI	1
results.href	Reference to get results of all applications	URI	1
commonCategories.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all defined categories	URI	1
tags.href	For a Measurement Database, reference to get all application assignments	URI	1

JSON Example

JSON format for Array of domains

Architecture Checker - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

How to modify/update Architecture Model used in CMS from Architecture Checker?

The user can modify the Architecture Model with the help of the stand-alone installation of Architecture Checker. The user just needs to have access to the .CASTArchitect file or the architecture model which is being used in CMS.

Then the user can browse it in Architecture checker and modify it accordingly.

Architecture Checker Component - Check Architecture Model - Performance issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps in troubleshooting performance issues in AC where the Check Model takes unexpectedly long time

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Check Architecture Model

Action Plan

Optimize the tables of local base, for this refer to CSS Tools - Optimize - Updating the statistics - using Cssoptimize exe on a schema, then Check Architecture Model.
Vacuum the table of local schema, for this refer to Tools - How to VACUUM FULL tables of a schema, then Check Architecture Model.
Enable SQL traces for this refer to Architecture Checker - Information - How to launch Architecture Checker in SHOW SQL mode,
1. Check Architecture Model
2. Open AC log file, refer to the following page for the log location CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs.
  1. The issue can be due to the fact that Architecture Checker is stuck in the computation of a procedure or a query.This case is identified when the computation takes very long time without returning any message after this procedure.
    Example:

Assessment Model access using CAST Management Studio

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to access the Assessment Model in CAST Management Studio.

Principles

CAST Management Studio can import, display, edit and assign Assessment Models from / to Dashboard Services
- Dashboard Service “import” lets you get hold of any pre-existing adapted Assessment Model
- Dashboard Service “assign” lets you drive the Assessment Model to use in 1 to X Dashboard Services
- Generic “import” lets you upload in your CAST Management Studio an Assessment Model from another implementation
- Generic “export” lets you download from your CAST Management Studio an Assessment Model for backup and distribution purposes
working copies of the Assessment Models are still present in the Dashboard and Analysis Services
- to support autonomous processing without being permanently connected to the Management Service
New Assessment Models can be created from scratch based on the default Assessment Model delivered with AIP Core

Operations

Accessing the Assessment Model configuration

The default CAST Assessment Model is visible and ready for access in the Assessment Models view in the CAST Management Studio:

Automation tool export and import process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Before you can start to use CAST Imaging, you will need to:

export the Application data that will be displayed in CAST Imaging from a CAST Analysis Service schema
import the CSV format data (resulting from the export process) into the CAST Imaging

An Automation tool is provided with the CAST Imaging that can run both actions in one go, or each action separately (from 2.1.2-funcrel of CAST Imaging ETL). The tool can also be used to re-import new data for an existing Application - in this case a data merge is performed - so new objects may be visible and existing objects may be removed or updated. See instructions for your operating system below.

Blacklisting extensions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Sometimes you may need to blacklist a specific extension from being auto-installed, for example:

the extension may not be compatible with the release of AIP Core you are using on your Node
the extension may be known to cause specific issues for your environment
the extension does not match your extension strategy (see Administration Center - Extensions Strategy / Administration Center - Settings - Extensions Strategy) - i.e. it is an alpha or beta and these are forbidden - and is requested automatically by Console
the extension is not present in your Extend local server and is requested automatically by Console

Things to be aware of before blacklisting an extension:

Browser Information - Internet Explorer - Get the web browser version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page explains how to get the web browser version

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Details

Get the web browser version:
You could get the web browser version by going to the menu help –? about internet explorer

Notes/comments

Related Pages

CAST Action Plan Optimizer - Mismatch in grades between original and simulated

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page describes the issue,root cause and solution if there is a mismatch between original and simulated grade in Action Plan Optimizer

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis + snapshot
Launch Action Plan Optimizer
Connect to particular connection profile
Click on Detailed simulation tab
Observe mismatch in original grade and simulated grade

Action Plan

CAST AIP for Dashboards - Deployment considerations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information to help you plan your CAST AIP for Dashboards installation.

Typical communication between CAST components

The following diagram shows the interaction between AIP Console and the main CAST Components. It also shows the flow from the source code delivery to the snapshot and Dashboard data consumption.

Click to enlarge

Info

*Analysis Node = Server on which the AIP Node service and AIP Core are installed.

CAST and zOS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The CAST DB2 Analyzer does not support direct connections to a DB2 z/OS server and is instead delivered with a utility that provides the means to extract information related to database structure, types and routines from the DB2 system catalog and then save the results into flat files. These files will then form the input for the CAST DB2 Analyzer.

The extractor is delivered as a JCL file containing a sequence of JCL code. There are various different versions of the extractor, each dedicated to a specific version of DB2:

CAST Architecture Checker - Access Rights

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Access Rights

When you connect to a Management Service using the CAST Architecture Checker, you must specify a User name. This User name requires the following access rights for the server and the Management Service:

Connect
Read tables
Write to tables
Execute stored procedures

As such, CAST recommends that you re-use the same user specified in the Connection Profile used when launching the CAST Management Studio.

Info

In a CAST Storage Service environment, rights do NOT need to be managed. The default operator user already has the required rights to connect to a Management database.

CAST Architecture Checker - Create an Unassigned item

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

An Unassigned Collector Set is only available when working with an Architecture Model.

To create an Unassigned Collector Set:

Right click in the Layers and Sets window and select the New Unassigned option.
The item will now appear in the Layers and Sets window
You can now drag the item to the Main window (Model tab) and begin configuring its dependencies:

See Glossary for more information about the Layers and Sets window Unassigned item.

CAST Architecture Checker - creating an example Quality Rule Model from A to Z

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Info

Summary: creating an example Quality Rule Model and viewing live results

This page shows the creation of a hypothetical Quality Rule Model to check for a specific situation. This example will produce a Quality Rule Model that tests whether any Java Methods in your Application directly access Stored Procedures in your database. This example assumes that a front end Java application and a back end database have already been analyzed.

CAST Architecture Checker - Define a Data Layer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Example

You have created a Layer called Data (i.e. matches all the source code that runs the Data tier in your application) and you would like to assign all SQL tables that use a specific naming convention (beginning with T_) to this layer. To do this, you can combine a selection based on the object type and another based on the name.

Step-by-step process

In the Types and Properties window, type “SQL” in the Filter textbox. This action filters the CAST Meta-Model properties to show you only the Types that contain the “SQL” string in their name:

CAST Architecture Checker - Exporting a Quality Rule Model to a new extension package

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Info

Summary: how to export a Quality Rule Model as a single rule to a brand new CAST AIP extension package.

Step 1 - Define the Model’s properties

Before you can export the Quality Rule Model as an extension, you will need to define some properties for this model. To define the properties, see CAST Architecture Checker - Configuring model properties. At a minimum, the following is required:

CAST Architecture Checker - File menu

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This section provides a detailed description of the contents of the File menu within the CAST Architecture Checker:

Menu Icon Description

New Architecture Model

Use this option to create a new Architecture Model. The New Architecture Model dialog box will be displayed enabling you to do so. See Define a new Architecture Model for more information.

If you are working on an Architecture Model, you will be prompted to save any unsaved changes you have made.

CAST Architecture Checker - Main window

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section provides a detailed description of the contents of the Main window within the CAST Architecture Checker.

Model tab

This tab is where you define the Architecture Model and then work with it to investigate violations to the model. More information about how to work with it can be found in the How to… section.

Log tab

The Log tab lists messages and errors that may occur when the CAST Architecture Checker is in use.

CAST Architecture Checker - Release Notes - 1.2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Installing a new release - CAST does not support the upgrade of CAST Architecture Checker from any previous release. Therefore, CAST recommends uninstalling the previous release of CAST Architecture Checker and then installing the new release from scratch.

1.2.1

Updates

Architecture Library improvements

It is now possible to add existing Layers and Sets in Architecture Models and Quality Rule Models to the Architecture Library for re-use in other models (in 1.2.0 the Architecture Library was introduced with no ability to add Layers/Sets to it). When a Layer or Set is added to the Library, it will appear as a Custom Layer or a Custom Set:

CAST Architecture Checker - Using Regular Expressions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

You can use Regular Expressions when working with block elements and using the Properties dialog box:

The following is an explanation of the Regular Expression system used by the CAST Architecture Checker and some examples of how to use it.

System in use

The CAST Architecture Checker uses the Java Regular Expression system - you can find out more about this here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html.

Examples


String searched	Regular expression to enter
Strings containing “src”	src
Strings exactly matching “src”	^src$
Strings starting with “src”	^src
Strings ending with “src”	src$
A string exactly matching “src”	/src$
A string exactly matching “.src”	/.src$
One or more upper case letters, but not zero	[A-Z]+
Any sequence of characters or any length - i.e. match all tables	.*

Number of characters

CAST Automated Enhancement Points Estimation - AEP

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Target audience:

CAST AI Administrators

Introduction

In addition to the Enhancement Function Points (EFP) measure, CAST AIP supports the new OMG Automated Enhancement Points (AEP) specification to estimate the size of an application revision.

After an initial baseline count, CAST AIP catalogs and stores both Data Functions and Transactional Functions structure in the CAST Analysis Service schema. All objects that are part of the Data and Transactional Functions are stored in the Analysis Service along with a checksum that uniquely identifies the current version of each artifact. When a new version of the application source code is analyzed using CAST AIP, the CAST Automated Enhancement Points algorithm uses the computed checksum of each object composing both Data Functions and Transactional Functions to determine:

CAST Console

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST Console has been designed to fully automate the management of extensions. You can find out more in Application - Extensions.

Click to enlarge

CAST Dashboard Package - Health Dashboard User Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST Dashboard Service schema connection configuration pooling

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: it is possible to modify the connection configuration for the Engineering Dashboard and the RestAPI to pool multiple CAST Dashboard Service schemas in one resource “domain”. In other words, you no longer have to configure one resource (in the context.xml) per CAST Dashboard Service schema, instead, one resource (in the context.xml) can function for multiple CAST Dashboard Service schemas.

Note

This page is only relevant for Dashboard 1.x. Dashboards 2.x already use connection pooling by default.

CAST Database Extractor - Release Notes - 2.3

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.3.43-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
SCHDB-162	All export logs will now include the corresponding command line to improve debugging.
SCHDB-158	A boolean “-report” option has been added for CLI mode that simulates the import step, but without generating the UAX/SRC files: instead the output is a single DatabaseExtraction.uaxreport file, identical to the DatabaseExtraction.uaxdirectory file generated in “normal” (i.e., non report) mode. See the documentation.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
43606	Fixes an issue causing no database response while extracting a schema with a large volume of objects.

2.3.42-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
39376	Fixes an issue causing the extraction process to hang during the “Extracting: Oracle Column Constraints…” step. The fix includes query optimization and forces the “optimizer_mode=all_rows” mode for Oracle 19 extractions.
38466	Fixes an issue causing extraction result differences when unchanged schemas are hosted on Oracle 11g and 19c - ‘REF CURSOR’ and ‘PL/SQL RECORD’ parameters.
38051	Fixes an issue causing the extraction process to hang when extracting Oracle Private Synonyms. The fix forces the “optimizer_mode=all_rows” mode for Oracle 19 extractions.

2.3.41-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
SCHDB-142	A change has been made to ensure that when the extractor logs a validation error (i.e. to say that an object has been found that contains inconsistencies which prevent it from being extracted) the specific object name and type is also logged. Previously the log only stated that an invalid object had been found, without specifying which object it was.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
33401	The extractor has been modified to ensure that custom queries added in the `<initialization>` section of the extraction .config file are run in the correct order to prevent these queries failing.

2.3.33-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
28288	The multithreaded option is not working properly, raising “Resolution error type in: xxx” error messages.

2.3.31-funcrel

New Features

Summary	Details
Support for extraction of databases hosted on Azure SQL instances.	The CAST Database Extractor now supports the extraction of databases hosted on: Azure SQL 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2014. These databases are handled as if they are Microsoft SQL Server instances.

CAST Database Extractor - Source panel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This section provides a detailed description of the contents of the Source panel in the CAST Database Extractor.

This panel enables you to define the parameters for the extraction process, i.e. your source database server, how to connect to it, what to extract etc. Each item is explained in more detail below:

Vendor

Use this option to choose the target RDBMS vendor for the extraction process:

Oracle (default)
SQLServer (Microsoft SQL Server)
ASESybaseServer (Sybase ASE)
AzureSQL (Azure SQL - handled as Microsoft SQL Server)

Choosing an option will display configuration options specific to that Vendor.

JDBC Driver

Choose the JDBC Driver from the drop down list that is appropriate for the platform chosen above:

CAST Discovery Portal - Incomplete Data - Object Description is incomplete

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help to troubleshoot problem where the object Description section is incomplete.

In the below screenshot the properties of the object under Object Descriptions is incomplete. It is not showing the list under Table Index, Table Foreign Key , Table Primay Key

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check if the properties of the object are calculated and in KB . If there are no properties calculated then it is expected to not see it in the Discovery Portal.
1. Launch Enlighten.
2. Drag the object on the view and hit F12 key.
3. It can be seen that the object has primary key and other properties calculated.
If there are properties for the objects seen on enlighten but still not visible on the Discovery Portal then report the problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the following Relevant Input

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Action Plan - Action Button malfunction - Not able to add objects with violation to the Action plan

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page handles the below problems :

You are trying to add an entity (object with violation) to the action plan, you see the icon indicating “Action plan” next to the item, but if you navigate to another rule, and came back, the icon disappears. Also the object do not appear in the action plan page.
You are trying to add an entity (object with violation) to the action plan, you do not see the icon indicating “Action plan” next to the item (nothing changes after clicking on action and saving the comment). Also the object do not appear in the action plan page.

Observed in CAST AIP

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Application - Incorrect Application name

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution to the problem of dashboard showing old and new application name in the Quick Access view even after changing it from AIC Portal and CMS.

Please refer to the below screenshot for clarity on the issue:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Bookmarks - Bookmark not showing for rule - Lazy fetching should be used for Hibernate collection

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to resolve book mark issues for the rule - Lazy fetching should be used for Hibernate collection

Applicable Platform or

CAST AIP	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis+snapshot
Observe no book mark for rule

Action Plan

If you observe no book mark for the rule mentioned then perform the below actions :

In this case, please confirm if the violated object for which bookmark is not visible is of type JPA_ENTITY. You can run the below query to confirm this :

Run on local schema:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Business criteria - Missing Business criteria - Complexity ERP customization

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the issue of Missing Business criteria Complexity ERP customization

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run a full snapshot
Open CED
Search for the missing Quality rule

Action Plan

Check if the table dss_metric_types, dss_metric_value_types, dss_metric_type_trees, and dss_metric_descriptions contain the quality rule, for this execute the following queries on the central schema:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Complex objects - Variation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the problem where the count of Complex Objects displayed in the left hand panel does not match with the Population of the complexity distribution metrics.

As seen in the below screenshot the complex objects count is 45.

But in reality there are only 23 objects since the source code is the same.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Computing Details - Incorrect Failed checks - Number of Successful Checks is negative

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the issue, when you find more failed than total objects for one particular quality rule.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take a snapshot.
Open CED.

Action Plan

Check if your case matches with the Specific Check
If your problem is not listed in the Specific Checks then Find the list of quality rules for which the total checks < failed checks
For all the quality rules obtained in the above action - please contact CAST Technical Support with Relevant Inputs
For CAST Technical Support only - Check if there is a difference between scopes in Detail and Total procedures by following the page - SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on metrics and diagnostics - How to run DETAIL and TOTAL procedures manually reproduce the issue and contact R&D.

Relevant input

Sherlock output with all the options checked (including Allow export of source code)
Screenshot of the dashboard showing the problem

Find the list of quality rules for which the total checks < failed checks

Execute the below query on the Central database

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Contribution or weight - Incorrect contribution value

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps to troubleshoot issues when the Contribution of the Quality Rule is incorrect on dashboard.

For example the contribution should be equal to 100% in the case when the consolidation mode is using a full application mode. The following screenshot illustrate an unexpected behavior:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis
Compute snapshot
Open CED

Action Plan

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Cyclomatic Complexity - Unexpected increase or decrease

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page describes the methodology to investigate cyclomatic complexity variation between two snapshots. For example, you want to understand the variation shown in the screenshot below:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take a first snapshot of an application
Take a second snapshot of the application keeping the same configuration
Connect to dashboard and observe a huge variation of cyclomatic complexity as shown in the screenshot above

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Estimated Effort - Incorrect Value - Estimated effort is zero when there are some tables that have been modified

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page describe the following issue on the Evolution - Quality and Size View: Estimated effort is shown as 0 for a module containing DB objects when there are some tables that have been modified.

Some tables have been modified in current snapshot (new column added for example). However, the FRAME_PORTAL_EVOLUTION_View shows 0 effort for the module containing the objects that have been modified.

Observed in CAST AIP

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Evolution - Incorrect Value

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This troubleshooting guide treats the problems of the evolution’s view where the values are incoherent or not as expected. For instance the absolute values displayed in the Quantity Evolution section (value is set to 0) are contrary to the relative values displayed in the Quantity Evolution (%) section (value is set to 100%).
Another example is that the deleted artifacts value is set to zero while artifacts have been deleted.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Exclusion - Excluded Objects reappears on dashboard - Exclusion still visible in the dashboard after taking a new snapshot - functional date issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

Excluded violations are still visible in the dashboard after taking a new snapshot.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Take a first snapshot v1 of the application.
Exclude some violations from the dashboard.
Take a second snapshot v2.
Open the dashboard, excluded violations are still visible in the list of violations.

Impact of the Problem

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Export All - Incorrect results in the generated CSV

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the problem where the value listed on CED is not matching with that in the generated CSV.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

If you are getting N/A in Complexity column while the PRI has a valid value in the CSV export file from the view Violation List of Violation View page then -
In the generated file the PRI value is seems to be incorrect particularly for the value which is greater or equal then 1000
Actually the value is correct, but due to thousand separator “,” present in numbers greater than 1000, the value get divided into two column and hence seems to be incorrect
This is due to the thousand separator “,” present in numbers greater than 1000. Numbers in a CSV file must be formatted as the localized Excel version await them
The issue is going to be fixed in Contrex
Workaround : edit generated CSV files and change “,” to empty string
If your case is not listed above then please contact CAST Technical Support and provide the Relevant input

Notes / Comments

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Export All - Missing data in generated CSV - Export All on Action Plan Items fetches incomplete results on Linux OS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When you try to export an action plan with not less than 15000 rows, the exported file does not contain all the rows and the last row is truncated, and the size of file is always the same ( 5,380 KB).

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Goto “Improvement - Action Plan” view in the dashboard.
Click “Export all”

Action Plan

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Export All - Performance issue - Frame Portal Faq View Exclusion view

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the issue when you try to export the list of exclusions, but the exclusion don’t work:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis and take a snapshot.
Open dashboard.
Add some items for exclusion.
Take a snapshot.
Open Dashboard.
Go to the frame FRAME_PORTAL_FAQ_VIEW_EXCLUSION.
Export the list of exclusion.

Action Plan

Perform the below actions:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Grades - Incorrect Value - Grades are displayed as 0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem

The grades are displayed as 0 on the dashboard despite the fact that the analysis and the snapshot have been generated without any error. Here is a screenshot of what can be observed in the dashboard:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Take and analysis and snapshot without any error
Connect to the dashboard
Grades are shown as 0 at some or all levels: Quality rule, Technical Criteria, Business Criteria as shown in the screenshot above

Solution

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Grades - Unexpected increase or decrease - module level

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page describe how to investigate the difference of grades between two snapshots at the module level when there is no change in the source code, to explain the variation.

For example, you perform an upgarde of CAST version, then you connect to dashboard and observe a variation of the grades at the health factor level.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Graphs - No Graph Available

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues when you are expecting graph to be displayed on the dashboard but instead the message “No Graph Available” is displayed.

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Select the section you are interested in.

If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed above then follow the below steps.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Information - Configuring Dashboard console not to show the logs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Configuring Dashboard console not to show the logs.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

These steps enable to have more details about SQL trace in the Dashboard browsing.

Stop application in used web server
Modify the web.xml file of the application by changing the logger.output.console value from trues to false

                        logger.output.console
                        true
                        Outputs logs to JVM console
Restart CAST application in used web server

Notes/comments

CAST Engineering Dashboard - List of XXX - No items to show - FRAME_PORTAL_FAQ_VIEW_EXCLUSION

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for problem - No items to show on FRAME_PORTAL_FAQ_VIEW_EXCLUSION view

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Compute snapshot
Open CED
Navigate to the view FRAME_PORTAL_FAQ_VIEW_EXCLUSION view

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue

If there is only one snapshot then it’s normal to not have any exclusions on the Dashboard. Note that the functional behavior is to exclude a quality rule in the current snapshot in order to get the exclusion for the next snapshot. So in order to get the list violation you should re-snapshot your application. Else go to the next step
Check if there are exclusion:
1. Get the snapshots from where the exclusions are set

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Login - Errors - HTTP ERROR 404

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page describes an approach on troubleshooting the error HTTP ERROR : 404 on login page of Cast Engineering Dashboard.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch dashboard from CMS (Open CAST Portal)
HTTP ERROR 404 occurs on the login page

Action Plan

Check for the Special cases
Get Customer’s inputs
For Support reproduce the problem

Relevant customer’s input

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - AFP - missing function point details

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page gives us explanation on the situation when N/A is displayed under Function Point Details for Modified Transactions

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

When one clicks on the modified transactions in the Evolution view, ends up in the below page with N/A

Generated objects are used to compute the transaction but are not counted for quality and size measures. When generated objects are modified and since they are used in the computation of the transaction, the transaction will be detected as modified by CAST.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Lines of Code - Files are not Counted on Dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will explain how to find the file types that do not contribute to LOC on the Dashboard.

Details

There are a few files for example *.BMS, that will not be counted when calculating the LOC on the dashboard.

To identify this, you can run the below query on your local schema -

For CAST 8.3.36 and lower:

SELECT COUNT(k1.idkey)
FROM keys k1,
 keys k2
WHERE k1.idkey IN (SELECT ( object_id )
 FROM ctt_object_applications
 WHERE application_id  in(354,404,435)
 AND properties = 0)
 AND k1.idkey = k2.idkey
 AND k2.objtyp IN (SELECT DISTINCT t.idtyp
 FROM typ t,
 typcat tc
 WHERE t.idtyp = tc.idtyp
 AND tc.idcatparent IN (SELECT cat.idcat
 FROM cat
 WHERE
 catnam LIKE 'APM Inventory Files'))

For CAST 8.3.37 and higher:

SELECT COUNT(k1.idkey)
FROM keys k1,
 keys k2
WHERE k1.idkey IN (SELECT ( object_id )
 FROM ctt_object_applications
 WHERE application_id in(354,404,435)
 AND properties & 255 = 0)
 AND k1.idkey = k2.idkey
 AND k2.objtyp IN (SELECT DISTINCT t.idtyp
 FROM typ t,
 typcat tc
 WHERE t.idtyp = tc.idtyp
 AND tc.idcatparent IN (SELECT cat.idcat
 FROM cat
 WHERE
 catnam LIKE 'APM Inventory Files'))

An example for a filetype that does not contribute to the LOC - *.BMS

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Lines of Code - Incorrect value - KLOC is displayed as 0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page will help you deal with the issue when the KLOC is being displayed as 0 on the dashboard.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run full snapshot
Open CED

Action Plan

Check if the application KLOC is greater or equal to 1KLOC, refer to Get the KLOC.

As per investigation and feedback from R&D, decision not to fix this for now is based on the assumption that real life applications are larger than 1kLOC.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Number of metrics - Inconsistent value - Count of tables in CMS module overview is different

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Count of tables in dashboard is more than the count of tables in CMS

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

View count of tables on analysis overview.
View count of tables on Dashboard Quick Access.
Compare the count of CMS tables with the count of Dashboard tables.

Action Plan

Check the expectations:
We can see in this example that there are 697 Tables shown in the Dashboard while CMS indicate 580 “Oracle table”, which mean that we have 117 more tables counted in the Dashboard.
If we look at the objects counted on CMS we notice that we have exactly 117 “Oracle materialized views”, this number is exactly equal to the surplus of tables found in Dashboard.
In fact the count of tables shown on Dashboard can represent one or several of following categories ( Please refer to the following page Geting types of objects counted in CMS)

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - number of metrics - incorrect value - Number of Decision Points

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page treats the problems reported on the value of quantity Number of Decision points displayed in the COMPARE VERSIONS page.
The problems that are encountered can be that the value in the latest snapshot is:

Lower than expected (it has unexpectedly decreased compared to the previous value)
Greater than expected (it has unexpectedly increased compared to the previous value)
Zero (it is not computed)

You will find at the following page, the definition you need to compute this value
Functional weight - Number of Decision Points Definition

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Technical Debt - Incorrect Debt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues when the label Technical debt is present in the left hand panel on the dashboard but the value displayed is incorrect. For example you are expecting a value but it is displayed as 0.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If the technical debt label itself is not appearing on the dashboard then please refer to this page - CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Technical Debt - Missing Debt
Else if the label is appearing on dashboard but the value is incorrect then use the below page to calculate the Technical Debt manually -
SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Metrics - How to calculate Technical Debt manually
1. If the manual calculation does not match the value present on dashboard then please contact CAST Technical Support and provide the below Relevant input:
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the below Relevant input:

For CAST Technical Support Only - This page will be followed - CAST Engineering Dashboard - Information - How to identify and execute SQL query involved in data display

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Modules - Empty Module

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page explains how to troubleshoot the issue related to empty modules in the Dashboard

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

1/ Execute Snapshot without skipping analysis

2/ Open the CAST Engineering Dashboard and check the module content : number of objects, number of lines,.. : The value is 0. Check for objects belonging to the module : No objects found.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Incorrect Object Status - Same object seen as added deleted

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When looking at the compare version page in the legacy CAST Engineering dashboard or in the Engineering or Health Dashboard, you can see that same object is seen in both added and deleted lists of objects.

This page help to understand why this object is seen as added/deleted.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Missing objects - ABAP - files with calls or includes to other files are not shown on the dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

If the abap analysis has these files which only have the calls or includes to other files these files are not shown on the dashboard and also not counted for LOC

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

CLASS-POOL /GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01 .
class-pool .
*"* class pool for class /GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01
*"* local type definitions
include /GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01=======ccdef.
*"* class /GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01 definition
*"* public declarations
 include /GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01=======cu.
*"* protected declarations
 include /GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01=======co.
*"* private declarations
 include /GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01=======ci.
endclass. "/GBE/CL_IM_RE_CP_SF_I01 definition

Notes/comments

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Wrong object - Objects from the previous analysis are present in current snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the problem on CAST Engineering Dashboard where the objects from the previous analysis are present in current dashboard even after deleting the source code from physical disk.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Generate snapshot after running the analysis for V1.
Do new delivery with some missing source code V2.
Generate snapshot after running the analysis for V2.
Launch dashboard.
Get violations for older code.
The Application drilldown view shows object in object tree, which points to older release.

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CAST Engineering Dashboard - PRI RPF and VI - Incorrect Value

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the problem where VI , RPF and PRI values are incorrect on dashboard. For instance a very high value or a 0 value that is not matching your manual calculation.

As seen in the below example the RPF is zero , the QR selected is Avoid Tables not using referential integrity, but the problem occurs throughout the dashboard across all the Quality rules -

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality rule - Duplicate Quality Rules - Duplicated quality rules in FRAME_PORTAL_INVESTIGATION_VIEW

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page handle the issue when you get duplicated quality rules and duplicated technical criteria on one of the CED views, as example this can be observed in the FRAME_PORTAL_INVESTIGATION_VIEW - Investigation - Quality Model Drilldown (Please refer to the following page for more information about this view FRAME_PORTAL_INVESTIGATION_VIEW - Investigation - Quality Model Drilldown)

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality rule - Inconsistencies - With other CAST components - Dashboard views shows more Architecture Violation than Archi Checker view

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Description

The customer is comparing results from the dashboard. for example:

With result with architecture checker. for example:

Validate customer expectations

The number of objects shown in violation in the dashborad is equal to the total number of wrong links in model violation between all the layers **including the “Unassigned Layer”.**Not only between two particular layers. In the previous example, “unassugned layer” is not displayed, hence, we cannot compare obtained value.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality rule - Inconsistency with other components - Architecture Checker - Rules deleted in ACC but still appears on CED

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution to the problem of the Architecture Rules coming up on the dashboard and showing violations even though the Architecture models have been removed from the CAST-MS for the current snapshot.

Refer to the below screenshot:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality Rule - Missing Quality Rule - Dashboard displays NA as the grade for Complexity SQL Queries criteria and Quality Rules

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the problem, when the dashboard displays N/A, in the Value comparison table in the Quick Access page while comparing the results of current and previous snapshot.

Please refer to the screenshot below for more clarity on the issue:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Report Builder - Generate PDF report

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps to troubleshoot issues that are encountered when generating a report and any issues with the report that is generated.

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Select the section you are interested in.
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the Relevant input

Notes/comments

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Search Box - Duplicate objects in the search box results

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the issue of duplicate objects displayed in the search box results of CED

For example you will get the following result

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis and take snapshot
open CED
Search for an object

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Snapshots - Wrong Snapshot version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues when you are seeing an incorrect snapshot version for modules.

Figure 1

As seen in the above screenshot the Snapshot version name is Version_test_2 for snapshot taken on 08-08-2017

Which is correctly displayed for 9393_issue unassigned objects content and DN_UDM module but incorrect for DB_UDM module.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Create three modules M1 , M2 and M3
Take V1 snapshot
Delete M1
Take V2 snapshot.
Change snasphot version for V1 in CMS
Snapshot version is updated for M2 and M3 modules except for module M1 (that is created in V1 and deleted in V2).

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Source code - Incorrect Source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page handles the issue when the source code displayed for an object does not correspond to the object. For example in the below screenshot we can see that the object in violation is FDR_CNF_PKG but the code viewer displays the code for object FDR_CNF_GHP

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Compute snapshot.
Launch CED.
Go to Investigation - Quality Model Drilldown view.
Select a violated object.
Observe the source code of the violated object.

Action Plan

CAST Engineering Dashboard - System - Missing system

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues when the System is missing from the CED. For example you are expecting to see two systems My System and My System2 but you are seeing only one system on CED -

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

For each System’s applications, apply the action plan for CAST Engineering Dashboard - Application - Missing Application
If you case is something different than the one listed here or if you are unable to get an explanation or solution to your problem then report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the below Relevant input:

For CAST Technical Support Only -CAST Engineering Dashboard - Information - How to identify and execute SQL query involved in data display

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Technical Criteria - Missing Technical Criteria

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps to troubleshoot issues when the Technical Criteria is missing from dashboard.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Verify in the assessment model that the technical criterion is properly associated with the required business criterion (generally including TQI). If it isn’t, correct the assessment model and run a snapshot without analysis to resolve the problem.
If at least one of the contributing quality rules has grade 4 only then the Technical criteria is displayed on the dashboard with 4. But if all the contributing QRs are missing, then the Technical criteria is missing.
If you expect that the quality rule which is missing should actually be present then please follow the user guide - CAST Engineering Dashboard - Missing data - Missing Quality RulesTo check the quality rules belonging to technical criteria please refer to the page - QRL - Quality Rules listed by Technical Criteria
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the Relevant input

Notes/comments

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Technology - Incorrect technology

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues where you are able to see a technology on the dashboard that is not part of your application.

For example you are able to see C++ displayed on the dashboard but your application source code consists of only JAVA and PHP.

Technologies are displayed in the below views -

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Transactions - Missing transactions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps to troubleshoot issues where the transaction is missing on the dashboard in the Risk Indicators - Transaction Level view.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Select the section you are interested in.

If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page then follow the below steps
If your problem is None of the transactions are displayed with a message “No items to Show” then please refer to page - CAST Engineering Dashboard - List of XXX - No items to show . Else if there is one or few transactions missing then follow the below steps -

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Users and Roles - Existing user get deleted after adding a new user

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page explains the case when a user already present gets deleted automatically after adding a new user.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Insert manually a user in VIEWER_USERS table

Impact of the Problem

The impact of the problem on the analysis or the dashboard is:
Missing user from CED

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Var column - Variation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When checking the variation of the grade (in application Drilldown or in assesment application level), it is not the expected one: When computing the variation based on previous snapshot grade, you are not getting the same values as the one

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take some snapshots
Access the dashboard in Quality Model View.
Grade variation for latest snapshot is not computed based on results of previous snapshot

Action Plan

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Views - Empty or blank view - FRAME_PORTAL_DEVELOPMENT_VIEW

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When connecting to the Investigation-Application Drilldown page in the dashboard, the view does not show any values

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Run a snapshot
Connect to the Dashboard
Go to Investigation-Application Drilldown page and observe the issue

Action plan

The issue can occur if there was an access to the dashboard when generating the snapshot leading to incorrect content in the CB due to parallel access to some tables. to solve the issue run a re-consolidation on the last snapshot. If this do not solve the issue then go to the next step
Check if the central base contain one of the following inconsistencies:
1. DSS_OBJECT_DIAG_DETAILS does not contain any violation for the current snapshot:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Views - Errors - An error occurred during process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution to a known problem of the Engineering Dashboard which causes the dashboard to stop working and prevents the user to work/access it. Following is the screenshot of the error that will explain the problem which is faced while accessing the dashboard:

This error does not come up after logging in, but occurs while working on the dashboard. After 2-5 minutes of working, this above error occurs and then does not allow the user to work on the dashboard.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - Critical Violations - Inconsistent value - Sum of values under Nb column in the Critical violations panel does not match with STATISTICS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page helps you to troubleshoot the problem where the Sum of values under Nb. column in the Critical violations panel does not match with STATISTICS in the left hand panel.

The dashboard views which display this information are:

For instance

In the Compliance - Application Level the sum of the values highlighted does not match with the count displayed under STATISTICS as seen in the below screenshot.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - False positive or Wrong Violation or False negative or No Violation - Architecture model quality rules

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

The issue occurs when a forbidden link (or allowed link) is detected in Enlighten but is not raised (is raised) as violation in the dashboard for the metric “Architecture Check: Architecture checker model”

Figure 1

Figure 2

For more information on Architecture Checker refer to - ACH - CAST Architecture Checker → ACH - How to…

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - False Violation - Avoid Artifacts with high Commented-out Code Lines per Code Lines ratio may appear as a new violation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on the metric “Avoid Artifacts with high Commented-out Code Lines/Code Lines ratio”, which may appear as a new violation in a dashboard when there is no change in a particular file.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

You can get new violations for the rule “Avoid Artifact with high Commented-out Code Lines/Code Lines ratio” even when there has been no code change for a particular file.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - No Violation - Avoid classes of high lack of Cohesion QR

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Some violations are missing for this QR.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Class A in file xyz.cs violating the rule Avoid classes of high lack of Cohesion

If you have only constants fields in your class: m=0, a=0, m(Aj)= 0 for all attributes.

a= 0 as contant fields are not considered in the count of class data member.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - WAR Deployment - LDAP - How to validate the Authentication and Authorization

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides you with the steps to validate Authentication and Authorization for CED.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	N/A

Details

CED supports only Microsoft Active directory (AD), so check if Microsoft Active directory is being used:
1. The structure of user must be an objectClass:
  
  Figure 1
2. There is a user principal name as attribute, and must be as follows: login@domain
  
  Figure 2

CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 2.2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.2.11-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-198	Fixed the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-39244, CVE-2026-12590, CVE-2026-13149, sonatype-2026-004320.

2.2.10-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-185	Resolved the following security vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-27699, CVE-2026-4800, CVE-2026-26996, CVE-2026-27903, CVE-2026-27904, CVE-2026-27837, CVE-2026-4867, GHSA-6v7q-wjvx-w8wg.
EXTPROXY-193	Resolved CVE-2026-5079.

2.2.9-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
58317	Resolved CVE-2026-41907.

2.2.8-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-188	Resolved Vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-4800, CVE-2026-27837, CVE-2026-27699, CVE-2026-44240, CVE-2026-41907, CVE-2026-3520, CVE-2026-3304, CVE-2026-2359, CVE-2026-30951, CVE-2026-2391, CVE-2026-26960, CVE-2026-33750, PRISMA-2021-0034, CVE-2017-20165.

2.2.7-funcrel

New Features

Summary	Details
NO_PROXY Environment variable support	Environment variable NO_PROXY can now be used to define exceptions to proxy defined proxy, space and comma separators are supported for definition of a proxy exceptions.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-177	Resolved CVEs: CVE-2026-23745, CVE-2026-23950, CVE-2026-24842, CVE-2026-23745, CVE-2026-23745, CVE-2026-23950, CVE-2026-23950, CVE-2026-24842, CVE-2026-24842.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
56347	Fixed an issue preventing proxies to be defined.

2.2.6-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Security Improvements	Resolved potential vulnerabilities CVE-2025-27210, CVE-2025-27209.

Bug Fixes

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-167	Fixed an issue that could cause proxy configurations to not be supported.

2.2.5-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Stability	Improved service stability and performance.
Stability	Resolved detected CVEs and hardened security of the service.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-162	Improved security and resolution of detected vulnerabilities.

2.2.4-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-150	Security improvements.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
54430	Fixed an issues that could prevent the user from switching the service between ‘online’ and ‘offline’.

Bug Fixes

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-145	Fixed an issue that could cause the service to not be installed correctly.

2.2.3-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTOFFLINE-46	Fixed an issue that would result in incorrect discovery in some circumstances.

2.2.2-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
49784	Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect synchonization data.
49674	Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect synchonization data.

2.2.1-funcrel

Note

Due to new features delivered under Extend for Imaging Cloud, it is mandatory to update the Extend Proxy to the latest (2.2.1-funcrel) version.

CAST Extend Offline for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 1.1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

There is no upgrade path from previous releases (including between betas), therefore you MUST uninstall any previous installations before installing a new release.
CAST Extend Offline is deprecated. Please use CAST Extend local server instead.

1.1.0-funcrel

Note

Promoted to funcrel. No other changes.

1.1.0-beta2

New Features

Summary	Details
GUI for CAST Extend Offline	A GUI has been implemented for CAST Extend Offline - this is identical to the GUI offered in https://extend.castsoftware.com/. Browsing to http://`<server>`:`<port>` will auto redirect to http://`<server>`:`<port>`/#/search-results.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
24203	Getting an error message “‘curl.exe’ is not recognized as an internal command or external command” at the end of the Offline Extend service 1.1.0-beta1.

1.1.0-beta1

New Features

Summary	Details
ExtendCLI is now included in the setup	ExtendCLI is now included in the setup so that you can populate it with extensions before using Extend Offline. The exe is located here: %PROGRAMFILES%\CAST\ExtendService\ExtendCli.exe
Upload a single extension	Ability to upload single extension directly without creating an update bundle

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
This release is shipped “empty”, without any preconfigured extensions	This release is shipped “empty”, without any preconfigured extensions. You will need to populate Extend Offline with extensions before you can use it - see https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/EXTEND/Update+CAST+Extend+Offline+with+new+content.
New service added as a requirement to support AIP Console ≥ 1.17	New service added as a requirement to support AIP Console ≥ 1.17: support for custom/User Community extensions using “Universal Analyzer” technology

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DETERMIN-14	AIP Console stops responding when the Extensions view is displayed.
EXTOFFLINE-15	Modify setup from Extend Service to Extend Offline

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
21729	Extend Website doesn’t have option to download Cast lab Extensions
21584	Extend Website doesn’t have option to download User Community Extensions

CAST Imaging ETL - Release Notes - 2.6

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.6.1-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
31639	Isolated Input and Output Objects, no link present between the input and output.

CAST Imaging Functional Module Assistant - 1.0 - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.0.0-beta1

Note

Initial release of the tool. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/CAST+Imaging+Functional+Module+Assistant+-+1.0.

CAST Imaging Global Installer - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This document provides information about changes and new features introduced in this release.

1.0.0-beta3

New Features

Summary	Details
CAST Storage Service has been included in the software to install	The CAST Imaging Global Installer (CIGI) is now able to install CAST Storage Service 4.x if it is not already installed on the machine where the CIGI is executed.

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Extend API key is now automatically set in Console	When using the online installation mode (where CAST Imaging Global Installer connects to CAST Extend), the CAST Extend API key is now set automatically in CAST Console.

Known Issues

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSETUP-30	The separate Log service (included with CAST Console Standalone) is not installed.

1.0.0-beta2

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Detect if Java JRE is installed before running the installer	The CAST Imaging Global Installer now checks that there is a compatible Java JRE is installed on the target server. If not, the setup will stop and will not proceed further.
Detect if AIP Core is already installed	If AIP Core is already installed on the target server, the CAST Imaging Global Installer will automatically skip the AIP Core installation and proceed with CAST Imaging Front end and CAST Imaging Console Standalone installation.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSETUP-4	CAST Imaging Console Standalone Edition and CAST Imaging front end will now not share the same data folder as was the case in the previous beta1 release.

1.0.0-beta1

Note

Initial release of this extension.

CAST Imaging installation on Microsoft Windows

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for your CAST Imaging installation on Microsoft Windows.

Interactive installation process

Double click the ImagingSystemSetup.exe file, provided with the installation media. You will be prompted to allow the installation - click Yes:

If your machine does not meet the minimum system requirements, the following dialog will be displayed - click YES to view the system requirements (you can continue to the installation), click NO to continue the installation:

CAST Imaging System - Application layers view mode - Concept nodes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page describes possible issues that may be encountered with objects. For example : missing node, missing link between nodes

For more information, refer to: User Guide - Application layers view mode

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Select the page you are interested in.
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the Relevant Input

Notes/comments

CAST Imaging System - Application layers view mode - Concept Objects - Missing link

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to investigate the issue of missing link between objects, for example when you are able to find a link between 2 objects in Enlighten, but the same is not visible in Imaging System:.

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

CAST Imaging System - Application layers view mode - Results - Error in application selection

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to resolve the issue in Imaging system while selecting an Application.

‘Error: Something went wrong. You will be redirected to App selection’

Applicable Platform or

Platform or	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

Select an application in Imaging
Observe the error

Action Plan

If you observe this error then please follow the below steps:

Check the imaging exporter log to see whether objects and links are exported properly. For ex: if you see below exporter log snippet you can see that there are 0 objects and links loaded :

CAST Imaging System - Architecture model mode - Missing architecture model

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page describes possible issues about Missing architecture model

For more information, refer: User Guide - Architecture layer scope

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If your architecture model is empty in Imaging, make sure that you have associated the model to the application and have run a snapshot in CAST AIP. It is a requirement to have the snapshot done with the associated model before exporting and importing to Imaging.
If the problem you are facing do not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the following Relevant Input

Notes/comments

CAST Imaging System - Configuration process - Export the application - Fatal error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

If the export fails while performing an export then this page can help in troubleshooting the issue.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Applicable Platform

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

Perform Imaging export

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

If you are using PeopleSoft, Siebel or Informatica then this is not supported - Known issues
We need to check If the issue is not due to Automation tool or PowerShell script, for that use the Traditional two step approach Two step export and import process. If this approach works fine, then this will be the Workaround to unblock the situation, After that contact CAST Technical Support with the following Relevant Input
If the issue is not due to Automation tool or PowerShell script then we need to examine the log file to understand the issue:
1. If you encounter an SQL error such as “missing relation” “missing view”, “missing table” then you need to perform a component reinstall on the knowledge schema - SRV - Component Reinstall If the issue still persists after reinstalling the knowledge schema then follow the page Server Manager - Component Re-install
2. If you encounter other form of SQL error, then perform the extraction in debug mode - CAST Imaging System - Information - Export application in debug mode then contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant Input
3. If you encounter errors indicating that the issue is related to memory, for example “out of memory” then the issue may be due to not having enough disk space available on the system. Make sure that there is enough disk space available for the Imaging export. You may need to monitor the disk space with a performance monitoring tool such as perfmon and/or check out the disk space before the failure (see Microsoft documentation for perfmon here)
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the following Relevant Input

CAST Imaging System - Configuration process - Import the application - Fatal error - Failed to get Status

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to resolve the import issue with Imaging system.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Observed in Imaging Version

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

Try to run the import feature in Imaging
Observe the error

Action Plan

If the import fails in Imaging with above error then please note the below points:

CAST Imaging System - Data Call Graph mode - Cannot reduce node space

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you in resolving the node space issue in Transaction or Data call graph view of Imaging system

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in Imaging Version

Release	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Navigate to Data call graph or Transaction view in Imaging
Try to adjust the node space

Action Plan

If you are not able to adjust the node spacing in Transaction or Data call graph view then please find the below details:

CAST Imaging System - Database - Neo4j - Backup and Recovery

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This section deals with the database used by the CAST Imaging system - Neo4j. It provides some assistance in Backing up and recovering this database.

Imaging Version

Release	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Details

Please refer the below link from neo4j documentation for more details on backup and restore.

https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/backup-restore/

There are two backup modes i.e full backup and incremental backup. You can take the full backup and after a full backup, only incremental backup is required.

https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/backup-restore/modes/

If you are not stopping any database, you can choose the option “Back up an online database”. Below link contains the command and various options to be used for backup.
https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/backup-restore/online-backup/
If you do not find the information you are looking for or solution for your problem, please contact CAST Technical Support

Notes/comments

CAST Imaging System - Database - Neo4j - Error - Server error - Java heap space

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This section provides assistance when there is aMemory error while Importing into Imaging.

Memory error can result in a warning and an error in imaging system while importing which maybe seen as one of the following:

WARN run: unable getting transactionObjects cypher summary for x_complete error=database returned error[Neo.TransientError.General.OutOfMemoryError]
ERROR Import: error while remodeling the graph, aborting import error=subobjectswithgraphrefactor: failed to run queries to import sub-objects and refactor the graph: run: error fetching cypher summary for Removal of .NET Instantiated nodes

Imaging Version

CAST Imaging System - Export options - Fatal error - could not write block xxxxxx of temporary file No space left on device

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to find a solution to the error Body (b’ERROR’, b'53100’, b’could not write block 48869735 of temporary file: No space left on devicefor the particular query - select data_id, start_id, end_id from aaa_is_dtg_to_export order by data_idwhich you may encounter, when you perform the Export of the application.

Info

2019-11-07 09:09:11,245 ERROR MODULMSG ; Body (b’ERROR’, b'53100’, b’could not write block 48869735 of temporary file: No space left on device’)
2019-11-07 09:09:11,259 ERROR MODULMSG ; Body Error executing select data_id, start_id, end_id from aaa_is_dtg_to_export order by data_id
2019-11-07 09:09:11,261 INFO MODULMSG ; Body Exported #0 datagraphs in C:\CASTMS\Imaging\New\Genesis_is_dtg.csv

CAST Imaging System - GUI - Login - Authentication - LDAP Authentication - Login failure due to exception javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will guide you to solve the login error ‘PKIX path building failed’ when imaging is configured to use ldaps authentication.

Error log :

[Root exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target]

For more information refer to : Configuring authentication using LDAP/LDAPS

Applicable Platform

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

Configure LDAPS authentication for imaging.
Enable ldap debug mode by adding below lines in application.properties file( path : %APPDATA%\CAST\ImagingSystem\login)

logging.level.org.castsoftware.aip.console.services.ldap=debug
logging.level.org.springframework.security.ldap=debug
logging.level.org.springframework.ldap=debug

CAST Imaging System - GUI - Login - Fatal Error - Incorrect username or password Please try again

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page handle fatal errors while trying to Login, for example:

For more information, refer to: Login

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Depending on user authentication methods for CAST Imaging System check if the configuration was correctly managed -Configure authentication. From example in LDAP mode, many users encountered this error because of wrong DN, missing port… as an example of LDAP configuration, you should get something like the following:

CAST Imaging System - GUI - Login - Warning- No Admin yet

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to resolve the Admin access issue with Imaging system. When you are logged in as ADMIN you may still get the below warning in the Imaging system:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in Imaging version

Release	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Install Imaging system
Login as ADMIN
See the warning

Action Plan

CAST Imaging System - GUI - Toolbar menu options - Wrong Line of Code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page handle the issue when the Line of Code value is wrong

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Get the number of line of code from the knowledge schema at application level, for this refer to SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on metrics and diagnostics - How to get the Number of code lines at application or system level in the Knowledge Base

CAST Imaging System - Information - Determining if a port used by imaging is already in use

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information for checking if a port is already in use that may be the default configuration for imaging.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation: CAST Imaging

Applicable Platform or

Platform or	Yes/No
Imaging 2.X	✅

Details

The ports used by imaging can be seen in the documentation here : Prerequisites for CAST Imaging

By running the below command, you can get the process id of the port being used

CAST Imaging System - Installation and update process - Fatal Error - ImagingSystemSetup.exe is not running

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to resolve the issue during installation of Imaging setup.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Observed in Imaging version

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

Try to run ImagingSystemSetup.exe
Observed the error

Action Plan

If you are getting the above error while running ImagingSystemSetup.exe then please note the below points:

CAST Imaging System - Modules - Missing Links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handles the case when you are expecting to get Links between Modules but the links are missing, for example you are expecting to get a link from Shopizer database to sm-shop:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Applicable Platform

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

View modules

Action Plan

Make sure the modules don’t have shared objects as then the module links will not be seen
1. if there is any missing links among modules in imaging, then check if any objects from two layers have links.
2. if there are links and still the modules are not linked, then check if the linked objects are shared among modules.
3. if objects are shared, then that link is not considered in imaging and links between modules will be missing in imaging.
  1. The remediation if links are desired is to reconfigure the modules so that objects are not shared.
Otherwise Take an example of 2 objects that should be linked, one object from the first module and the second object from the second module
Check if each object is part of the corresponding module
1. If each object is part of the corresponding module, then refer to CAST Imaging System - Transactions view mode - Missing link
2. Else if one of the objects is not part of the corresponding module then refer to CAST Imaging System - Modules - Missing Object to investigate the issue of missing object from the module.
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the following Relevant Input

CAST Imaging System - Search for items - Application search is not working properly

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page describes possible issues that may be encountered while searching for applications. For ex: we can see that the below result has a application with the word ‘MMR’

When you search with the word MMR, you will not be able to find the application :

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Search for an application using relative word in its name

Action Plan

CAST Imaging System - Source code - Source code for this object is not available - For Visual Basic objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to resolve the issue of missing source code for Visual Basic objects in Imaging

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch Imaging
Try to view source code for VB objects

Action Plan

If you are not able to view the source code for VB objects in Imaging then please perform the below actions :

CAST Imaging System - Transactions view mode - False link

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page handle the issue of False link from Transactional view . For example when you are not expecting to get a link between the below objects you get a false link.

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Action Plan

Check if the link is visible from Enlighten - ENL - Links
1. If the link is visible from Enlighten then the false link should be investigated at Enlighten stage. For that refer to Enlighten - Links
2. Else If the link is not visible from Enlighten then the false link should be investigated at Imaging System stage. In this case perform the extract in Debug mode - CAST Imaging System - Information - Export application in debug mode and contact CAST Technical Support and provide the knowledge schema.
If the steps above does not help to solve the issue then contact CAST Technical Support with the following Relevant Input

Notes/comments

CAST Imaging Tutorial Application - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.0.0-funcrel

Note

This is the first release of an extension to support the Tutorial feature introduced in CAST Imaging - 2.2.0-beta1. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/CAST+Imaging+Tutorial+Application.

CAST Management Studio - Configuration Menu - Error - The application is not binded to the Source Delivery Server

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When trying to accept the delivery in CAST MS, you receive an error which results in the delivery not to be accepted.

The error is the following:The application ‘XXX’ is not binded to the Source Delivery Server.

See the following screenshot for an example of the error:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step scenario

CAST Management Studio - Editors - More Analysis Units than in Delivery Manager

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to provide information on certain cases which may cause extra analysis units to be created in CAST Management Studio (CMS).

There are situations where the number of analysis units in the delivery process shown in the summary screens and the number of analysis units that show up in CMS are not the same.

For example, 5 analysis units are selected and 4 ignored after packaging in DMT as shown below:

CAST Management Studio - Launching CAST MS - Fatal Error - Can not set com castsoftware pmc DatabaseServer field to com castsoftware pmc LocalDatabase

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

Following error encountered while opening the CMS

Internal error occurred.
The application is closing. Call CAST support now providing the log file at C:\Documents and Settings\SGP\Local Settings\Temp\CAST\CAST\7.0\CAST-MS107.log.txt

internalException :
Can not set com.castsoftware.pmc.DatabaseServer field com.castsoftware.pmc.Database.databaseServer to com.castsoftware.pmc.LocalDatabase

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

This error may have been encountered when the CMS is corrupted.

You can check this by

Running below two queries on the MNGT

CAST Management Studio - Task Window - Fatal Error - An IO error occurred while sending to the back end

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve issues related to the interruption of the connection after an Analysis.

The fatal error message that appears when the interruption of the connection to the local database occurs is:

An I/O error occurred while sending to the back end.
com.castsoftware.java.ExternalException:An I/O error occured while sending to the backend.

Observed in CAST Version, CAST Extension Version, CAST Component Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅
8.2	✅
8.1	✅
8.0	✅

Observed in RDBMS

CAST Management Studio - Views - Log View - Error - premature end of file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handles issues with the error “premature end of file” such as shown in the screenshot below in TCC:

or CAST-MS:

Or in the CAST-MS log as:

Premature end of file
2018-07-31 17:25:31.846 ERROR cast.utilities.consoleHandlerGenericLogError Invalid ////S:/DMTDelivery/data/{bac54ba6-4d48-4e33-b7bd-9e3478bbd3bf}/{569d1a15-5b33-42a9-bae8-b8eb072013f8}/7e0a7c5c-3992-4c40-8cb9-6f7a5defb03c.entity.xml.entity.xml

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.2	✅
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

CAST Management Studio - Views - Validation View - Error - Duplicated User Defined Modules name

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When looking at the validation view in CAST Management Studio (CMS), an error is seen about Duplicated User Defined Modules name as shown in the below screenshot:

These duplicated modules are not visible in CAST Management Studio.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CAST Oracle Forms Extractor - General panel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This section provides a detailed description of the contents of the General panel in the CAST Oracle Forms Extractor.

This panel enables you to define the input parameters for the extraction process. Each item is explained in more detail below:

Verbose By default this option is set to TRUE. When set to true, the log (see Log panel) will contain information about the time taken to perform each specific action in milliseconds. This increases the size of the log, but is useful for troubleshooting.

Platform

This field is automatically set to Forms.

CAST Oracle Forms Extractor - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.0.2-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
35062	Fixed an issue causing a Java “EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION” error when attempting to run the Oracle Forms extractor.
34431	Fixed an issue causing the Oracle Forms Extractor to stop and then close automatically when attempting to run and extraction.

1.0.1-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
23275	The log contains the message “Invalid forms file” for multiple PLL files.
26583	When attempting to run the Oracle Forms Extractor in GUI mode, the extractor crashes with no message. When running in CLI mode, a fatal error is recorded in the JRE: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. This fixes involved the delivery of a new JDAPI module.

1.0.0-funcrel

Note

Initial release as an extension on CAST Extend.

CAST Report Generator - Text components - 1.8.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI).
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

CAST Report Generator - Text components available - 1.11.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI).
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

CAST Report Generator - Text components available - 1.9.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI).
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

CAST SAP BusinessObjects Extractor - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.0.3-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
29901	Fixed an issue causing an empty analysis result.

1.0.2-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id

Details

13653

Missing Business Objects: BO Classes are not getting analyzed. In previous releases of the extractor, SAP BusinessObjects classes were visible in the extraction results, but contained errors which meant that these classes were not resolved as objects when the analysis was run with the SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer. This bug has now been fixed, therefore after running this release of the extractor on unchanged source code and then subsequently analyzing that output with the SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer, results may be impacted: SAP BusinessObjects classes will now be correctly resolved.

1.0.1-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
CAST-00000	Added command line opton -s [ –singleMode ], which makes the extractor open a separate session of the BO runtime for each universe. By default, all universes are extracted in a single session. This option can be useful, when extraction of a very large universe fails because of limits in the BO runtime. A small reduction in performance is to be expected when using this option.

Known Issues

Internal Id	Details
CAST-00000	This release does not extract BO classes, which in turn do not get analyzed.

1.0.0-beta1

Note

Compatible with CAST AIP 8.2.5 and above. Functionally, this first release provides the same features as the extractor embedded in Business Objects Analyzer in AIP releases prior to 8.2.5.

CAST SAP Extractor NG - ABAP source code extraction - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section describes how to use the CAST SAP Extractor to extract ABAP source code ready for analysis with CAST. Please ensure you have installed the CAST SAP Extractor and have read CAST SAP Extractor NG - User Guide - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x.

Introduction

If you are extracting ABAP source code, the following menu will be displayed. This section explains all of the fields and options that are available in this menu:

CAST SAP Extractor NG - ABAP source code extraction - 8.4.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section describes how to use the CAST SAP Extractor to extract ABAP source code ready for analysis with CAST. Please ensure you have installed the CAST SAP Extractor and have read CAST SAP Extractor NG - User Guide - 8.4.x.

Introduction

If you are extracting ABAP source code, the following menu will be displayed. This section explains all of the fields and options that are available in this menu:

CAST SAP Extractor NG - ABAP source code extraction - 8.5.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Introduction

If you are extracting ABAP source code, the following menu will be displayed. This section explains all of the fields and options that are available in this menu:

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Installation and Uninstall - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to install the CAST SAP Extractor on to the SAP instance.

Installation of the CAST SAP Extractor

Check the SAP system compatibility

See Prerequisites in CAST SAP Extractor NG.

Check the CAST SAP Extractor deliverables

Before starting to install the CAST SAP Extractor, please ensure that you have received the complete installation kit which includes the following deliverables:

A workbench transport request: This transport request contains all the development objects that are required to install the CAST SAP Extractor. A manifest (a text file) will also be provided, that describes the different objects that are contained in the transport request. The following screenshot shows a sample manifest:

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Installation and Uninstall - 8.4.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to install the CAST SAP Extractor on to the SAP instance.

Installation of the CAST SAP Extractor

Info

This release can co-exist on the same SAP instance as previous releases of the CAST SAP Extractor NG, however CAST highly recommends uninstalling the extractor after you have completed the extraction process.

Check the SAP system compatibility

See Prerequisites in**CAST SAP Extractor NG**.

Info

Starting 8.4.5, the installation scripts include some specific S/4 checks to ensure syntax compatibility with the system version.

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Installation and Uninstall - 8.5.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to install the CAST SAP Extractor on to the SAP instance.

Installation of the CAST SAP Extractor

Info

Check the SAP system compatibility

See Prerequisites in**CAST SAP Extractor NG**.

Info

Starting 8.4.5, the installation scripts include some specific S/4 checks to ensure syntax compatibility with the system version.

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes - 8.5

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

8.5.6-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
58774	Changed the name of the extractor to funcrel, previously “beta-funcrel” was used.

8.5.5-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
51266	Fixes an issue causing an incomplete or corrupted SAP extraction file.

8.5.1-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
51707	Fixes an issue causing the error “Runtime Error : GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED” when attempting to run the extractor on custom packages (Z, Y).
51682	Fixes an issue where the delivered extractor contained erroneous references to the 8.4.x release of the extractor.

8.5.0-funcrel

Note

This release (and all 8.5.x releases) cannot co-exist on the same SAP instance as previous releases of the CAST SAP Extractor NG, therefore you must uninstall older releases of the extractor before installing this new release. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DOCCOM/CAST+SAP+Extractor+NG+-+Installation+and+Uninstall+-+8.5.x.

CAST Storage Service - Post installation information and action items

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

End of Life Notice

CAST Storage Service (com.castsoftware.css) is End of Life and is no longer supported or distributed. Customers previously using CAST Storage Service must migrate to a standard PostgreSQL installation. CAST recommends PostgreSQL 18.x.

Info

Summary: this page provides information about what you should expect when you install a CAST Storage Service and what you need to do post installation.

What to expect

Windows service

The CAST Storage Service is installed as a Windows Service (click to enlarge):

CAST System Views - Analysis Service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This document provides a detailed description of each CAST System View provided in the Analysis Service (all tables/views beginning with CDT_, CDV_, CSV_, CTT_, CTV_) together with column information. Depending on your specific configuration, some tables/views may not be available.

Choose the item you would like to know more about from the menu above.

Tables

To extract the following information you can use this query in a Microsoft SQL Server environment:

CAST Universal Analyser Framework - Information - How to check if UA extension metamodel is correctly loaded in central and local database

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides a way to check if the custom UA profile has been loaded correctly in Central or Local Database.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
CSS2	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

If UA extension is correctly loaded in central & local database can be checked by running below query:

CAST Universal Analyser Framework - UA Package Assistant

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to UA Package Assistant.

UA Package Assistant is a feature of CAST AIP which is a standalone tool that provides a means to validate your user defined packages for UA languages.

The UA Assistant will enable you to check that your language packages are correct and conforms to required standards before they are imported into the CAST Knowledge Base, thus avoiding errors during an analysis.

Changes in results post upgrade - ≥ 8.3.46

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Please see the release notes for each specific release for more information about impact on existing results.

Changing Console port number - activating HTTPS - for Console 2.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to change the Console front-end port number to enable HTTPS, for Console ≥ 2.x, Enterprise mode.

Introduction

By default, an unsecure http connection will be used for end-user access to Console (port 8081) in Console ≥ 2.x,Enterprise mode. This page explains how to change the Console front-end port number to enable a secured connection using https for access. There are two ways you can do this:

Changing the name of the cast_dashboards schema

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

A graphical user interface was implemented in ≥ 2.1 for managing the assignment of role and data authorizations to users and groups of users. This interface replaces the existing mechanism provided by the roles.xml and the authorizations.xml files. You can find out more in:

User roles and User roles - 2.x and above
Data authorization and Data authorization - 2.x and above

This management interface relies on aschema hosted on a PostgreSQL instance to store the roles/data authorizations. This schema is called cast_dashboards by default and will be created on first startup of the web application. This schema is defined using two files:

CMS - .NET Environment Profiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

.NET Environment Profiles

All discussion about custom .NET Environment Profiles can be found in doc.castsoftware.com, in the documentation provided for the .NET Analyzer extension.

CMS - Add a version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Add a Version

A Version specifies the version name/number and Date of Release for any source code you want to deliver. It is used to manage successive iterations of source code. New Versions are created when the Application’s source code changes and you want to measure these changes.

CAST recommends that the addition of Versions is left to the Delivery Managers (using the CAST Delivery Manager Tool via the CAST AIC Portal). However, if you (as the CAST AI Administrator) need to package source code, then you can add Versions as instructed below:

CMS - Analysis Service editor

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Analysis Service editor

This section provides a detailed description of the Analysis Service editor. This editor essentially provides a means for you to edit the configuration of an Analysis Service installed on your Database server (Name, Portal URL, associated Applications, associated Environment Profiles etc.).

Notes

An Analysis Service is used to store results of analyses.
Analysis Services are automatically defined using the Discover option following the addition of a database server
The user name and password used to access the Analysis Service will be the same as used in the parent Database server, although they can be overridden using the Credentials section below. Please see CAST Management Studio - Rights for more information about how server access rights and permissions are handled in the CAST Management Studio.

CMS - Analysis tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Analysis tab

This tab allows you to define various specific options (organized by Technology) for all Analysis Units defined in the Application - these options govern the way in which the source code matching the Technology type will be handled during the analysis.

The CAST Management Studio will automatically determine the Technology type of an Analysis Unit when the packages are deployed and the Analysis Units are created. As such, all Technologies that are present in the Analysis Units in your Application will be visible in this tab, for example:

CMS - Analyzing multiple C/C++ projects via a .castexedesc file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Analyzing multiple C/C++ projects via a .castexedesc file

When C/C++ projects do not have .vcproj files, the CAST Delivery Manager Tool cannot detect a project or projects and therefore no Analysis Unit will be created automatically by the CAST Management Studio when a version is set as current (see the Delivery tab in the Application editor). In this situation you will need to create an Analysis Unit manually (see the Current Version tab in the Application editor) so that the CAST Management Studio can analyze your source code.

CMS - Applications view

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applications view

This section provides a detailed description of the Applications view. This view essentially provides a means for you to manage your Applications.

Notes

The Application view will be empty following a new installation

The following shortcut menu items are available in the view, depending on the item you right click:

Application

Edit Use this option to modify the properties of your Application. The Application editor will be displayed.

Stop Managing Application Please see Stop Managing an Application for more information.

Backup Application Please see Backup an Application for more information.

Rename Application Use this option to rename your Application. A dialog box will be displayed enabling you to input the new name for your Application. Renaming an Application will also rename it in the Source Code Delivery Folder and therefore in the CAST AIC Portal.

CMS - ASP Analysis Unit editor - Source Settings tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

ASP Analysis Unit editor - Source Settings tab

This section provides a detailed description of the specific Source Settings tab in the ASP Analysis Unit editor.

Source Settings tab

Project path

The file based location of the corresponding project. This field is read-only.

Notes

When the field contains User defined, this indicates that the Analysis Unit has been defined manually instead of automatically following the use of the CAST Delivery Manager Tool.

Application Root Path

Indicates the folder that is defined as the root folder for the Analysis Unit for analysis purposes. The Application Root Path is the path to the folder that contains WEB-INF directory.

If this Analysis Unit is automatically defined, then this field will already be populated. You can choose a different source code location (use Browse) - or use the Reset button to re-populate the field with the information from the parent Application.

CMS - Background Facts tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Background Facts tab

This tab governs the Background Facts part of the Assessment Model, i.e. it governs external facts that can be uploaded at Snapshot generation time to provide more context (formerly known as Productivity Metrics). These Background Facts are declared in an XML file, see: Configuring the Background Facts upload file for more information.

The tab is divided into two distinct parts:

a list of Background Facts
and a section to configure/edit each Background Fact with various sub tabs

List of Background Facts

This section simply lists the Background Facts. The below example is taken from the standard CAST supplied Assessment Model (see Assessment Models view):

CMS - CAST Architecture Checker

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST Architecture Checker

The goal of the CAST Architecture Checker is to make it easier for architects to enforce application software architecture rules across IT departments. As part of the CAST Management Studio, the Architecture Checker enables the definition of Software Architecture Models that can be checked against the application implementation. Once the software architecture is defined, the Architecture Checker enables an ongoing check of the implementation and easy-to-use early reporting of any rule violation in the CAST Dashboard. When detected early, these violations can be fixed and can prevent robustness, security and changeability issues.

CMS - CAST Management Studio Startup Wizard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST Management Studio Startup Wizard

The Startup Wizard is only launched the very first time you launch the CAST Management Studio. In subsequent launches, the wizard will not be displayed.

Note that you can also use the ConfigurePlatformPreferences option via the Command Line Interface (CLI) to initialize the settings. This is designed for bulk updates in large CAST AIP deployments.

The Startup Wizard guides you through the configuration of various mandatory settings. These settings are vital to the CAST Management Studio and without them you cannot use the application.

CMS - CAST Storage Service database server editor

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST Storage Service database server editor

Notes

Note that MS SQL Server database servers support Analysis / Dashboard / Measurement Services for use with the CAST Management Studio.
During the process of connecting to the Management Service when launching the CAST Management Studio, the “server” listed in the Connection Profile automatically created by CAST Server Manager for the Management Service, will be added by default to the Services view. The same login credentials will be used. Please see CAST Management Studio - Rights for more information about how server access rights and permissions are handled in the CAST Management Studio.

The CAST Storage Service server editor contains various tabs and sections. Each is explained below.

CMS - Customizing View and Editor layout

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Customizing View and Editor layout

When first launched, the CAST Management Studio will default to a preconfigured layout. You can continue to use this, or you can modify the layout as you wish. This page lists some of the changes you can make to the CAST Management Studio and how to do them.

Moving views and editors

Any view or editor in the CAST Management Studio can be moved from its default position to a new position as shown in the example below:

CMS - Information about Object Filters/Explicit Content in a User Defined Module

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Information about Object Filters/Explicit Content in a User Defined Module

Combining Object Filters and Explicit Content

When defining a User Define Module (see User Defined Module editor), it is possible to combine various different filter options. A User Defined Module can consist of 0 to N Object Filters (defined in the Filter tab in the User Defined Module editor) and 0 to 1 Explicit Content (defined in the Explicit Content tab in the User Defined Module editor). The result of these options is derived using a UNION between the Object Filter(s) and the Explicit Content.

CMS - Manage CAST Management Studio Connections

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Manage CAST Management Studio Connections

Connection profiles are used to record a set of connection parameters - they are used when launching the CAST Management Studio and enable you to choose the Management Service (_MNGT) you would like to connect to.

Please see CAST Management Studio - Rights for more information about how server access rights and permissions are handled in the CAST Management Studio.

During the installation process (if using a Combined Install option), CAST Server Manager will automatically create a connection profile to the CAST Management Studio database/schema (_MNGT) you have installed. This connection profile is stored in a proprietary XML file on your hard drive. When you first launch the CAST Management Studio, you will be prompted to check that the connection profile is correct (see Launching the CAST Management Studio).

CMS - Preferences - CAST General

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Preferences - CAST General

The CAST General settings are described below:

User Interface

Audience

Choose the target audience type to modify the number of editor tabs that are displayed in the CAST Management Studio:

Regular > Minimum number of tabs required to generate a snapshot.
Advanced > More tabs displayed
Expert > All tabs displayed

The effect of choosing an option can be best seen in the Application editor.

Note that the selected audience will be saved in the CAST Management Service and will therefore be persistent between CAST Management Studio sessions. If you do not want the selected audience to persist, please change the same option on the Toolbar.

CMS - Server access - required rights

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Server access - required rights

This page requires that you have already read and understood the information in Server access rights - overview.

This page describes the server access rights that are required for the various different processes carried out and managed by the CAST Management Studio when you are using a commercial RDBMS to host the CAST databases.

Connecting to a Management Service when launching the CAST Management Studio

To connect to a CAST Management Service for the purposes of using the CAST Management Studio, the following rights are required:

CMS Analysis Snapshot - Generate Modules - Fatal Error - Siebel - Error while executing Batch

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Siebel Snapshot generation fails with below error

Error while executing Batch: select * from <Knowledge_Base>.SIEBEL_MODULE_ADDED(‘Siebel Consumer Sector_ADDED’,‘Siebel Consumer Sector’)
Query failed because:
ERROR: null value in column “idobj” violates not-null constraint
Detail: Failing row contains (null, 1520010, 10, 0, 2).
Where: SQL statement “insert into ObjInf (IdObj,InfTyp,InfSubTyp,BlkNo,InfVal)
values (L_MODULE_ID,L_INFTYP_STATUS,L_INFSUBTYP_STATUS,0,2)”
PL/pgSQL function siebel_module_added(character varying,character varying) line 99 at SQL statement
Batch entry 0 select * from <Knowledge_Base>.SIEBEL_MODULE_ADDED(‘Siebel Consumer Sector_ADDED’,‘Siebel Consumer Sector’) was aborted.

CMS Analysis Unit - Analysis Tab - Missing information

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face with your Analysis.

CAST MS help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help - Search - Analysis Unit editor

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Identify the name of the Analysis Unit having the missing information
identify the project papth of the Analysis Unit:
Open the DMT of the current version
Go to the Alert section
Check if there are alerts related to missing source folder or missing source file.
If these alerts exist, this is explaining the reason why entries are missing in the analysis tab of Analysis unit.
Re-mediate these alerts and package again after having rejected the version.
If the above points do not help you, contact CAST Technical Support with below relevant input

Relevant input

Sherlock (CAST Support Tool (CST) - alias Sherlock) : Export CAST Database, Export Configuration files.
Screenshot showing the missing entries

Notes/comments

CMS Analysis Unit - Analysis Unit is missing - User defined analysis unit gets removed after adding new version and going back to previous version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

On adding user defined analysis unit on current version and then,setting the other version as current version,the user defined analysis units disappear.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Create V1
Run analysis
Clone V1 and create V2
Set V2 as current version
Add user defined analysis unit in V2
Click Save
Set V1 as current version and check the analysis unit that was added goes missing in V1

Details

CMS Analysis Unit - Analysis Units creation - Duplicate Analysis Units created in a CPP project when we have both .vcproj and .vcxproj file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Purpose of this page is to explain what needs to be done when we have multiple project files (project files from the older version of the build ex: VCbuild and from the new build ex: MSBuild) pointing to the same source and

DMT discovers different analysis units for each file

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If the .Net source has multiple project files pointing to the same source DMT still finds both of them as different projects because this information is left to the customer’s decision as in which project to be included in the analysis.

CMS Analysis Unit - Execute Tab - Run Analysis on the current analysis units group

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face with your Analysis Units.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page report the problem to CAST Technical Support with the Relevant Input.

Notes/comments

Related Pages

CMS Analysis Unit - Execute Tab - View Analysis Unit content - Analysis results of analysis units get dropped when set to false

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the issue when results of Analysis unit get dropped when set to false
Such a behavior is observed even if the Analysis Unit that is being set to false has been analyzed and has results in it.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

1.Create two packages.
2.Each package contains multiple jobs.
3.Set the analysis units of second package to False, keeping analysis unit for first package to true.
4.Run the analysis for the first package and then view the module content,the results for this jobs are visible and results can be seen on Enlighten.
5.Set the jobs for the first package to false.
6.Now set the second package analysis units to true.
7.Run the analysis for the second package and then view the module content,the results for this jobs are visible and results can be seen on Enlighten but correspond to the second package only.
8.The results of the first package are lost.

CMS Analysis Unit - Execute Tab - View Analysis Unit content - Fatal error - Analysis unit needs to be analyzed before taking the snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the warning received while trying to view the Analysis Unit Content.
The warning received is as follows “ needs to be analyzed before taking the snapshot”
This warning is received when you try to view the content of a Analysis Unit which has not been analyzed.

Even if the Analysis Unit has not been analyzed, this is also an inappropriate message.
Since you are just trying to view the content and not running a snapshot, so the message should not say “needs to be analyzed before taking a snapshot”.
This message can be misleading for end users.

CMS Analysis Unit - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Should all Analysis Units after migration have dependencies to Database objects?

No it’s not mandatory. In CMS, we provide some default technology -> technology dependencies. When you start to define a precise dependency between elements of these technologies, the default is deactivated.

You’ve 2 use cases for dependencies:

A discovered dependency : it comes from the DMT and it concerns only intra-technology.
A user defined dependency : it is created by the AIA inside CMS or by the upgrade process

Please also check CMS - CAST Management Studio for a detailed explanation

CMS Application - Current Version - Duplicate Analysis Unit for Maven poject exported to Cast-MS when excluded from DMT

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the issue where you exclude a Maven project from DMT since same Eclipse project exists but the exclusion is not taken into account and the ignored project is still exported to Cast-MS as a duplicate AU.

If you have both Maven and Eclipse projects for the same project, we should be excluding either the Maven or the Eclipse project from the project exclusion.
When packaging is completed we choose to exclude the duplicate maven projects in the project exclusion section in DMT while keeping the Eclipse project as shown below:

CMS Application - Current Version - Fatal Error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face related to current version tab.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation:

CAST AIP 8.3.x Documentation : CMS - Current Version tab

CAST MS help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help > Infrastructure > Editors > Application Editors > Current Version tab

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

CMS Application - Delivery - Accept Delivery - Fatal Error - Folder is empty and has no source-code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page helps troubleshoot the error copy****sources.CastSourcePackage file: File not Found error that is encountered when we try to accept the delivery.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Open CAST Management Studio / AIP Console
Select a version
Click Accept delivery or Set as current version.
The error is thrown during the accept delivery step.

Action Plan

CMS Application - Delivery - Add version - Fatal Error - An error has occurred while reading the property file localpswds dat Access is denied

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

In CAST MS, in the delivery tab, when adding a new version, the following fatal error occurs:

An error has occurred while reading the property file: \data{fcbcb54d-abbb-4bd0-b191-d2a2decbed22}\localpswds.dat

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Open CAST MS
Add a new version in CAST MS

Action Plan

The error message is displayed when the file localpswds.dat is not accessible. The file localpswds.dat contains the password used by some type of package that needs password to perform extraction (like SVN, TFS, PL/SQL, SQL Server, …)

CMS Application - Delivery - Manage Delivery - Fatal Error - Content is not allowed in prolog

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the fatal error message “Content is not allowed in prolog” you may face when launching the Delivery Manager Tool through AIC Portal/CAST-MS.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

When opening DMT from CAST-MS

Open CAST MS
Select the Management database.
Click on the Manage Delivery option

Error is seen as below -

Action Plan

Open the CAST-MS log file
Check for the Error stack as below -

Invalid ////C:/Delivery/data/dfce37aa-b9d2-4c90-aa87-8fd1d0f0b73a.entity.xml
com.castsoftware.java.ExternalException:Invalid ////C:/Delivery /data/dfce37aa-b9d2-4c90-aa87-8fd1d0f0b73a.entity.xml
com.castsoftware.java.IOMonitor.throwExternal(IOMonitor.java:222)
com.castsoftware.java.IOMonitor.throwFileInvalid(IOMonitor.java:93)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.DocumentSource.parse(DocumentSource.java:104)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.DocumentSourceManager.run(DocumentSourceManager.java:301)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.FileLoader.run(FileLoader.java:246)
com.castsoftware.dmt.model.DeliveryMemoryDocument.fillDocumentFromPmxFiles(DeliveryMemoryDocument.java:366)
com.castsoftware.dmt.model.DeliveryMemoryDocument.load(DeliveryMemoryDocument.java:281)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.DMTConfiguredApplication.onInitialize(DMTConfiguredApplication.java:102)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI.onInitialize(GUI.java:343)
com.castsoftware.mda.run.ConfiguredApplication$2.call(ConfiguredApplication.java:243)
com.castsoftware.mda.run.ConfiguredApplication$2.call(ConfiguredApplication.java:1)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:415)
com.castsoftware.mda.run.ConfiguredApplication.run(ConfiguredApplication.java:233)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI$2.call(GUI.java:93)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI$2.call(GUI.java:1)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:415)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI.main(GUI.java:77)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.executeMain(JarBootstrap.java:529)
com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.main(JarBootstrap.java:755)
Content is not allowed in prolog.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException:Content is not allowed in prolog.
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:441)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:368)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1436)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:999)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:606)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:848)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:777)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:649)
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:333)
javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:195)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.DocumentSourceManager$Parser.run(DocumentSourceManager.java:602)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.DocumentSource.parse(DocumentSource.java:88)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.DocumentSourceManager.run(DocumentSourceManager.java:301)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.FileLoader.run(FileLoader.java:246)
com.castsoftware.dmt.model.DeliveryMemoryDocument.fillDocumentFromPmxFiles(DeliveryMemoryDocument.java:366)
com.castsoftware.dmt.model.DeliveryMemoryDocument.load(DeliveryMemoryDocument.java:281)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.DMTConfiguredApplication.onInitialize(DMTConfiguredApplication.java:102)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI.onInitialize(GUI.java:343)
com.castsoftware.mda.run.ConfiguredApplication$2.call(ConfiguredApplication.java:243)
com.castsoftware.mda.run.ConfiguredApplication$2.call(ConfiguredApplication.java:1)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:415)
com.castsoftware.mda.run.ConfiguredApplication.run(ConfiguredApplication.java:233)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI$2.call(GUI.java:93)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI$2.call(GUI.java:1)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:415)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.GUI.main(GUI.java:77)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.executeMain(JarBootstrap.java:529)
com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.main(JarBootstrap.java:755)

3. The following error “Content is not allowed in prolog.” appears when you have a malformed entity.xml file.

CMS Application - Delivery - Set as current version - Configure the deployment of the packages - Wrong deployment path

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The following page will guide you to deal with the problems you may face while trying to search a pattern and create search strings like.

Reference Finder doesn’t Match pattern to the text
Number of occurrences found while searching in a file are more than the occurrences found in running the reference finder job
Reference Finder searches the comments even the comments option is not selected.

You have run the following scenario, leading to this use:

CMS Application - Delivery - Set as current version - Deploy source code - Fatal Error - Error occurred during initialization of VM

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the fatal error “Error occurred during initialization of VM” that is diplayed in the deployment_deploy.castlog2_<package_uuid>.castlog2 log file.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Open the deployment_deploy.castlog2_<package_uuid>.castlog2 log file in DEBUG display option.
Check the DETAIL Message that are before the ERROR message
If the DETAIL is containing the following message : Preparing to run Importer with process JVM to 2G like below screenshot :

CMS Application - Delivery - Set as current version - Process CastDelivery file - Fatal Error - Item without database ID and not in created list

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the issue of Set as current version completes with an error message in CMS application as shown below.

“DLL Source” without database ID and not in created list
“framework” without database ID and not in created list
com.castsoftware.java.InternalException: “DLL Source” without database ID and not in created list
“framework” without database ID and not in created list
com.castsoftware.mda.access.DocumentHelper.verify(DocumentHelper.java:602)

You can find the mentioned error in Cast-MS log.

CMS Application - Dependencies - Missing dependencies - Transitive dependencies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to add dependencies through a query in case of missing dependencies when there are Transitive dependencies.

Transitive dependencies : A depends on B, B depends on C and C depends on D –> Then, A must depends on C and D, B must depends on D

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

In case of transitive dependencies not taken into account

CMS Application - Dependencies - Reference Pattern Dependencies - Fatal Error - Failed to generate the list of sets the whole set of target objects is empty

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

On running analysis of an analysis unit having reference finder, analysis crashes with error as shown in the below screenshot :

The CAST-MS log displays the following stack trace :

ERR: 2016-03-24 07:39:30: Failed to generate the list of sets: the whole set of target objects is empty, the tool cannot be run.
com.castsoftware.java.InternalException:Failed to generate the list of sets: the whole set of target objects is empty, the tool cannot be run.
com.castsoftware.pmc.dataset.AnalysisUnitSelectionBuilder.createSelectionOfSets(AnalysisUnitSelectionBuilder.java:313)
com.castsoftware.pmc.features.RunOMCEmulator.documentExecute(RunOMCEmulator.java:247)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryTask.execute(MemoryTask.java:82)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.run(Task.java:275)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.runChildren(Task.java:388)
com.castsoftware.pmc.features.RunRFOnDependency.documentExecute(RunRFOnDependency.java:66)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryTask.execute(MemoryTask.java:82)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.run(Task.java:275)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.runChildren(Task.java:388)
com.castsoftware.pmc.features.AbstractRunExecution.documentExecute(AbstractRunExecution.java:71)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryTask.execute(MemoryTask.java:82)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.run(Task.java:275)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.runChildren(Task.java:388)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.DocumentTask.execute(DocumentTask.java:39)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.run(Task.java:275)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.runChildren(Task.java:388)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryAction.execute(MemoryAction.java:253)
com.castsoftware.pmc.actions.application.RunAnalysis.execute(RunAnalysis.java:492)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryAction.topExecute(MemoryAction.java:246)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryAction$MemoryActionTask.documentExecute(MemoryAction.java:343)
com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryTask.execute(MemoryTask.java:82)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.run(Task.java:275)
com.castsoftware.java.treatment.TaskExecutor$TaskMainThread.run(TaskExecutor.java:135)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

CMS Application - Dependencies - Reference Pattern Dependencies - Links not created - Tool to use in case the Reference Pattern tool is not working

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provide you the information on how to use the tool in case the Reference Pattern search string does not work in CMS.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

The Tool is only applicable to technology where the source code is uploaded (to be visible in Dashboard).

CASE 1: Generic tool

The constraints are the following :

Analysis must be run before.
Sources have to be uploaded (during analysis, or using the upload sources action, or run snapshot).
No filter on comments, embeded code, …
No filter on tehcnology (for java, …).
Available for CSS only.

Below are the steps to run the tool:

CMS Application - Dependencies - Reference Pattern Dependencies - Run reference finder - Crash

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to the run reference pattern.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation:
- Official documentation: Cast AIP 8.3 : CMS - Dependencies - using Reference Patterns

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If a popup is generated with the message “Analysis Runner has stopped working” as shown in the below screenshot:

CMS Application - Dependencies - Reference Pattern Dependencies - Run Tool - Fatal Error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

While running tool of reference pattern search string,you may encounter an error -java.lang.NullPointerException.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Create reference pattern search strings
Run the tool of reference pattern search string

Action Plan

This issue occurs when there is one reference pattern search string with “Based on reference pattern field” empty and you try to run another reference pattern search string with filled content in “Based on reference pattern field” .

CMS Application - Execute - Drop Analysis Results does not drop all analysis results

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When using ‘Drop Analysis Results’ from the Execute tab in CAST Management Studio (CMS) the analysis results are not dropped.

See the screenshot below for the location of this functionality in CMS. It is also documented here: CMS - Drop Analysis Results

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run the ‘Drop Analysis Results’ action in the Execute tab of CMS
Verify in Enlighten that the analysis results are not dropped

Action Plan

CMS Application - Execute - Fatal Error - Delete Snapshot - Error while executing procedure - More than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The purpose of this page is to troubleshoot the error in snapshot deletion Error while executing procedure - More than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression

See the Cast-MS log file to check the error and sql statement.

 ERROR: more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression
 Where: SQL statement "Update ADG_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS
 set FIRST_SNAPSHOT_ID = (select s.SNAPSHOT_ID
 from ADG_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS s
 where s.APPLICATION_ID = ADG_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS.APPLICATION_ID
 and s.TEXT_DATE = ADG_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS.FIRST_TEXT_DATE
 )"

 PL/pgSQL function adg_compute_delta_snapshots(integer) line 69 at SQL statement
 SQL statement "select ADG_COMPUTE_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS (13)"
 PL/pgSQL function dss_execute_named_side_process(integer,character varying,integer) line 64 at EXECUTE statement
 SQL statement "select DSS_EXECUTE_NAMED_SIDE_PROCESS(I_SNAPSHOT_ID, 'ALL', I_SIDE)"
 PL/pgSQL function dss_execute_side_process(integer,integer) line 5 at SQL statement
 SQL statement "select DSS_EXECUTE_SIDE_PROCESS(I_SNAPSHOT_ID, -1)"
 PL/pgSQL function dss_purge_snapshot(integer) line 139 at SQL statement

If the CAST-MS log contains the same failing sql statement, then the issue is due to more than one snapshot bearing the same functional date.
After deletion of a snapshot, CAST-MS will re-consolidate the previous and the next snapshots and compute the added/deleted artifacts, then it fails as it finds more than one snapshot with the same date.
It is not possible to generate two snapshots with same functional date from CAST-MS., but the check is not done in CAST-MS-CLI : this is a known issue that will be fixed in 8.2.7

Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Application - Execute - Fatal Error - Run Analysis only - java lang NullPointerException null

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When clinking Run Analysis only, it fails with error “java.lang.NullPointerException” as below screenshot :

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Package and deliver the source code
Accept the delivery,set as current version and launch the analysis
The analysis would not launch and fails with error “java.lang.NullPointerException”

Action Plan

Open the CAST-MS log file
Search for the error message : java.lang.NullPointerException:null

CMS Application - Execute - Non Fatal Error - Previous Snapshots not seen in Cast MS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The purpose of this page is to provide assistance when previous snapshots which were seen and available in CAST-MS are no longer seen in CAST-MS.

Some steps are provided below to assist with the remediation of this action.

Observed in CAST Version, CAST Extension Version, CAST Component Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

This can vary depending on the actions taken.

CMS Application - Execute - Performance issues - Review Dynamic Links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is about performance issues that may occur when reviewing dynamic links

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

The Review Dynamic links tool is running SQL queries. The performance issue may be due to bad database statistics. Run a CSSOptimize on the local database.
If optimizing the local schema does not resolve the issue, check if the issue is linked to one particular SQL query or is linked to DLM engine:
1. Open the CAST-MS log file

CMS Application - Execute - Run Analysis only - Fatal Error - Run Analysis only failed - Invalid Analyzer to invoke

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

The page will help you to troubleshoot the error message : Run Analysis Only failed - Invalid Analyzer to invoke when clicking Run Analysis only.

Figure 1

Source Server / <APPLICATION NAME> / <PACKAGE NAME> / <ANALYSIS UNIT NAME>.Analyzer to invoke: Invalid Analyzer to invoke: All C-Family analysis units should invoke the same analyzer: please set the AU to use 'Clang-based analyzer' (currently set to 'Legacy analyzer')."
com.castsoftware.mda.validations.ValidationException:Source Server / <APPLICATION NAME> / <PACKAGE NAME> / <ANALYSIS UNIT NAME>.Analyzer to invoke: Invalid Analyzer to invoke: All C-Family analysis units should invoke the same analyzer: please set the AU to use 'Clang-based analyzer' (currently set to 'Legacy analyzer')."
com.castsoftware.mda.validations.ValidationQuery.<init>(ValidationQuery.java:44)
com.castsoftware.mda.validations.ValidationQuery.<init>(ValidationQuery.java:55)
com.castsoftware.mda.ui.actions.EntityJFaceActionCustom.validate(EntityJFaceActionCustom.java:295)

*Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Application - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Best Practice to split an application to avoid Virtual Byte Limit.

If many Analysis Unit are regrouped in the same Execution Unit – This will lead to a memory issue.The solution would be to Splitting the Job / Execution Units, this solution will reduces the number of objects analyzed by the job. For more information please refer to the following page: CMS Analysis Unit - Information - General way to split analysis units or jobs.

CMS Application - Modules - Filters - Analysis Units selection - Analysis Units are not listed for module creation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Analysis units shows up in CAST Management Studio as shown below:

But are not shown when trying to create modules

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Deliver code through the Delivery Management Tool.
Analyze code.
Try to create modules in CAST Management Studio.

Impact of the Problem

CMS Application - Modules - Incorrect module content - Missing objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to troubleshoot issues related to missing objects in the module content overview.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check if the missing objects have been analyzed by searching these objects in Enlighten. If the objects are not analyzed, it is expected to not have them in the Module Content. Check in the analysis log file that there are no errors or warnings related to these objects and visit the page CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer.

CMS Application - Modules - Module content overview - User Defined Modules - Fatal Error - Empty Modules

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page troubleshoots all the issues in CAST MS related to showing an ’empty module’ Fatal error message.

When in the User defined module definition,click on Module Content overview to see the error message.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check if the issue is linked to Analysis : The analysis may have not created the objects. Check the analysis log file and check in Enlighten that the expected objects that should belong to the Module exist. You can also check this by Viewing the Analysis Unit Content as described in the documentation (for 8.1, you can go to this link for the documentation on this: Viewing Analysis Unit content).
If you are on Oracle and the analysis log seems to be fine, but you get no content to view when trying to view the analysis unit content, then check this case: Analysis completed successfully on Oracle but Analysis unit content shows empty

CMS Application - Production - Dynamic Links Rules

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to Dynamic Links Rules**.**

For more information, refer to online documentation :

In CAST MS Online Help : CAST Management Studio - Help > How to > Advanced/Expert audience > Reviewing Dynamic Links > Dynamic Link Manager filter rules

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If you are facing issues related to connection profile : “No connection profile called ” :

CMS Application - Reference pattern - Links not created

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face while running the Reference pattern tool . Any problem you face while running the Reference pattern tool will be dealt in this space.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation

CAST AIP 8.3.x Documentation : CMS - Reference Pattern tab

CAST MS help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help > Infrastructure > Technology Editors > Visual Basic Technology options > Reference Pattern Tab

CMS Application - SQL Tool

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to SQL Tool.

SQL Tool is a feature of CAST AIP that provides a means for users to manually modify the content of the CAST Analysis Service once a job or set of jobs have been executed and the results stored.

For more information, refer to:

For 8.3: Official documentation : CMS - Tool editor

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

CMS Application - Universal Importer - Fatal Error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face while running the Universal Importer tool.

Refer to Official documentation :

CAST AIP 8.3.x Documentation : Universal Importer - Advanced configuration

CAST MS help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help > Infrastructure > Editors > Application Editor> Content Enrichment tab

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action plan

Check if the error is due to a custom procedure that has been added to the CAST databases.
1. Do this by checking if the function or stored procedure which is resulting in the error exists in a standard CAST database.
  For example, if the following is the error seen in the CAST-MS log

CMS Application - Update CAST Knowledge Base - Links are not removed from CTV_LINKS table

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the issue you may face when you try to drop the results using the ‘Drop Tool results’ option from the Update CAST Knowledge Base job, the results do not get dropped i****n ctv_links table.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Launch CMS
Select the knowledge base.
Add KB job and run CSV
The links are not getting deleted from the tool.

Action Plan

CMS Assessment Model - Configuring Quality Rules - Error - Threshold values must be strictly in ascending or descending order

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

The error occurs when Threshold are not sorted is ascending or descending order

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

Threshold are used to separate quality grades (poor, medium, high, very high) in Dashboard
To separate the 4 grades, the Threshold values have to be sorted in quality order (ascending or descending according to the diagnostic)

Sort them manually with the Assessment Model GUI

Notes / Comments

CMS Assessment Model - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

What are the metrics/quality rules that could be applied on wsdl files ?

There are no Quality Rules defined for wsdl files

References on CAST Software Platform for measuring software quality

CAST implements its various health factors based on the general guidelines of the ISO/IEC 25010 model. Specific rules and implementation of the guidelines are not provided in the ISO/IEC 25010 model.

We do follow CISQ guidelines which are based on the ISO/IEC 25010 model. You can see more in CISQ Code Quality Standards paper which discusses the alignment of this model with the CISQ standards:

CMS Assessment Model - Importing Assessment Model - Error - Overriding parameter value not found for technology object type 1665000 Name Backfierd FP ratio Metric 10201 BackFired Function Points

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

While importing the assessment model it fails with the following error: “Overriding parameter value not found for technology/object type 1665000 Name: ‘Backfierd FP ratio’ Metric : (10201 ) BackFired Function Points!”

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Import the assessment model
Import fails with the error

Impact of the Problem

CMS Assessment Model - Information - Avoid Too Many Copy Pasted Artifacts

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This metric measures the ratio between the number of duplicated, copy/pasted artifacts and the total number of artifacts.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Details

Definition

This metric measures the ratio between the number of duplicated, copy/pasted artifacts and the total number of artifacts.
Copy / Paste detection is based on statistical detection methods. The statistical methods used compute a similarity metric between all artifacts. Artifacts are reported as copy / pasted when the similarity is higher than 90% (see metric parameter SIMILARITY).
Like any statistical method, the detection algorithms require a well sized sample in order to provide significant results: testing these algorithms with a couple of classes will not do the job, a real life application’s source code is required to yield usable results. The minimal size required stands at around 5000 lines of code.
Below such a size, the algorithms detect the full list of exact copies for the copy/paste code detection but slightly modified copy/paste code will not always be detected.
Also, for optimal efficiency, the copy/pasted code detection is enabled only for artifacts larger than 10 lines of code (methods, functions, procedures, triggers, programs…).

CMS Assessment Model - Information - Configuration or Parameterization of number of columns in Avoid Complex Select

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

The purpose of the page is to describe how to change or parametrize ’the number of columns returned by select clause’ to be treated as violation in the metric Avoid Complex Select.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Description:

The default behavior of this metric is: “If select clause is returning more than 9 columns, this will be treated as a violation”.

CMS Delivery Unit - Information - Configure from migrated database

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This document provides hint and information about the result of the execution of feature ‘Configure from migrated database’.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

Details

Result in the list of modules

When performing ‘Configure from migrated database’, only user defined modules are supposed to be displayed under Modules section of the Delivery Unit in the management data base.

So, If all modules attached to the ADG Admin portfolio tree are resulting from analysis jobs and they are not user defined modules created via snapshot preparation assistant, it’s normal to not see them in the delivery unit. But be sure that these modules will be considered in the snapshot generation and will appear under adequate application in the dashboard.

CMS Extension SDK - Performance issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

While running a snapshot Run Extensions takes long time and never finish, as shown in the screen shot attached below:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Package the source code and deliver it using DMT.
Accept the sources in CMS and set it as current version and run the snapshot.
While running the Run Extensions takes long time to finish or some times never finish.

Impact of the Problem

CMS Infrastructure Services - Environment Profile - Information - Export and Import Environment Profile through Command Line

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Export and Import Environment Profile through Command Line

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Details

To export Environment Profile through command line,run the command :

C:\Program Files (x86)\CAST\7.3/EPManager.exe -DATABASE(CASTStorageService) -CONNECT_STRING(‘LIBPQ:CSS2SUP:2280,postgres’,‘operator’,’*****’’,‘cb733_1328_prt_sup_local’) -LOG(‘C:\Users\PRT\AppData\Local\Temp\CAST\CAST\7.3\Environment ProfileManager8969428009256151659_CMS.castlog’,USELOGFILE) -EXPORT

To import Environment Profile through command line,run the command :

CMS Infrastructure Services - Review Dynamic Links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page is a guide to troubleshoot the problems you may encounter while using the CMS Infrastructure Services - Review Dynamic Links

This feature enables you to review “dynamic links” between objects following an analysis.

Dynamic links are links that have been identified between objects (usually based on search strings) and saved to the Analysis Service but their authenticity cannot be absolutely determined by CAST.

How to review Dynamic Links :

CMS Migration View - Error - Configure from Migrated Database - Site KB XXX XXXX Id XXXXX not found in Infrastructure

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the solution for the below error you may face while you run the “Configure from Migrated database” manually on the central base.
Site KB XXX XXXX Id XXXXX not found in Infrastructure

com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.main(JarBootstrap.java:755)
Site "KB_AFD_SIOP" (Id=xxxxxxxx) not found in Infrastructure.
Please make sure to configure all needed servers.
com.castsoftware.java.ExternalException:Site "KB_AFD_SIOP" (Id=556903349) not found in Infrastructure. 
Please make sure to configure all needed servers.

Issue is seen if you have a local site registered on your DSS_SITES but that local is not present on your server in the infrastructure tab in CMS.
This typically happens if your mngt has applications that are using multiple dashboard and analysis services.
While you migrate your application you choose to migrate only one of the Analysis Services and skip the others.
The corresponding DSS_SITES on the associated central base still holds the entry for the skipped Analysis service but is not found on the migrated server.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Clean Dependency Dataset

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to Clean Dependency Dataset

Clean Dependency Dataset is a feature of CAST AIP in which source code corresponding to the technologies/analysis units in the source column is scanned for references to objects in source code corresponding to the technologies/analysis units in the target column.If any obsolete links are found then it will clean the links between the corresponding objects.

Figure 1

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Analysis Unit Full Content - Fatal Error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page describes how to solve any Fatal errors that may occur during the Analysis Unit Full Content step.

Figure 1

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Select the page relevant to the problem you are facing
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the below relevant input:

CAST Technical Support will reproduce the issue by using the Management Database and the source code provided..

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Analysis Unit Full Content - Number of objects selected 0 - PL SQL analysis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to troubleshoot the issue related to the number of objects selected for a given analysis unit set to 0 for PL/SQL analysis.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Dependency Dataset - Error - Failed to generate the list of set

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides the solution to the error message Failed to generate the list of set, which occurs during the Compute dependency dataset phase as shown below :

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Fatal Error - Connection has been closed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will provide you explanation and solution about this Fatal Error message that appears in the CAST MS log file :

ERR: 2017-01-24 10:49:14: This connection has been closed.
 com.castsoftware.java.ExternalException:This connection has been closed.
 com.castsoftware.connection.JdbcConnection.throwException(JdbcConnection.java:1156)
 com.castsoftware.connection.JdbcConnection.prepareCall(JdbcConnection.java:947)
...
 java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
 Connection Error: { call <Local_DB>.DSS_UNLOCK (?) }
 com.castsoftware.java.InternalException:Connection Error: { call <Local_DB>.DSS_UNLOCK (?) }
 org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Connection.checkClosed(AbstractJdbc2Connection.java:822)
 org.postgresql.jdbc3.AbstractJdbc3Connection.prepareCall(AbstractJdbc3Connection.java:316)
 org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Connection.prepareCall(AbstractJdbc2Connection.java:308)
 ...
 com.castsoftware.mda.impl.MemoryTask.execute(MemoryTask.java:82)
 com.castsoftware.java.treatment.Task.run(Task.java:275)
 com.castsoftware.java.treatment.TaskExecutor$TaskMainThread.run(TaskExecutor.java:135)
 java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Fatal Error - Error while executing procedure - Could not write to hash join temporary file No space left on device where SQL statement insert into DSS CodePath

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to find a solution, if your snapshot is failing and the below mentioned error is found in the Cast-MSx.log.txt file.

ERROR: could not write to hash-join temporary file: No space left on device
 Where: SQL statement "insert into DSS_CodePath
 ( PathId ,StepIndex, StepDepth, SourceId, StartLine, FinishLine, ContainerId)
 select distinct scope.PathId, scope.ScopeIndex , scope.ScopeIndex + 1 , s.SOURCE_ID, (obj.Info1+book.Info1)-1 , (obj.Info1+book.Info3)-1 ,scope.ContainerId
 from WK_SCOPE_EXPENSIVEPATH scope

This error is encountered when the execution of procedure DIA_JEEPATH_GENERATE consumes all the available disk space.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Fatal Error - Error while executing procedure - duplicate key value violates unique constraint dss metr typ pk

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to find a solution if your snapshot is failing and the below-mentioned error is found in the Cast-MSx.log.txt file.

duplicate key value violates unique constraint dss_metr_typ_pk

This error is encountered when the primary key constraint is removed from the table dss_metric_types in the central base and duplicate metric IDs are introduced which can be seen by running the below query in the central base:

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Non Fatal Error - Could not load Configuration from file DotNet_Entity_TCCSetup

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When running a snapshot with the entity framework extension 1.4.1-1.4.3, the following error is seen in the CAST-MS log:

ERR <date/time> Could not load Configuration from file \configuration\TCC\DotNet_Entity.TCCSetup
ERR <date/time> Exception: com.castsoftware.java.InternalException: Data Set definition file XML parsing returned error
For more information on the entity framework extension, please see this page: Entity Framework

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.2	✅
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Performance issue - Snapshot performance problem due to DIA_MANY_UNREFFUNCTION SP in KB

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the WA to deactivate some of the metrics that use this SP, DIA_MANY_UNREFFUNCTION in the local base.
When you are facing a performance problem while running snapshot, and looking at the DSS_History table for local you find that the snapshot is stuck at executing DIA_MANY_UNREFFUNCTION which is still being executed or has taken the maximum time to execute
For example:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.0	✅
7.2.x x<=3	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Configure Snapshot into Dashboard Service - Performance Issue - Procedure AED_INIT_TRAN_VIOL_CNT_TMP_PREV

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The page will help you to find a solution for performance issue of the procedure AED_INIT_TRAN_VIOL_CNT_TMP_PREV getting stuck.

The stuck procedure name can be seen in AedCli-xxx log as shown in the screen shot below.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x x<=8.3.5	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Create Snapshot Definition - Error - ORA-12899 - value too large for column

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help to identify the issue concerning the snapshot failure with the error as mentioned below while generating a snapshot.The snapshot fails at “Create Snapshot Definition” step with the following error:

ORA-12899: value too large for column “XXXX_CENTRAL”.“DSS_OBJECTS”.“OBJECT_DESCRIPTION” (actual: 1088, maximum: 1000)
ORA-06512: at “XXXX_CENTRAL.DSS_CREATE_OBJECT”, line 22
ORA-06512: at line 1

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Create Snapshot Definition - Fatal Error - Relation dss central selection does not exist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information regarding a fatal error that comes up during the step “Finalize Dataflow Security” while taking a snapshot.
The following error message ERROR: relation “dss_central_selection” does not exist can be seen in the Cast-MS.log.txt.

ERROR: relation "dss_central_selection" does not exist
 Where: SQL statement "truncate table DSS_CENTRAL_SELECTION"
 PL/pgSQL function dss_definesnapshot(timestamp without time zone,character varying,character varying) line 18 at SQL statement
 org.postgresql.util.PSQLException:ERROR: relation "dss_central_selection" does not exist
 Where: SQL statement "truncate table DSS_CENTRAL_SELECTION"

Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Dashboard Automation - Error - cannot open xxxx

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The “Dashboard automation” step fails with error “cannot open xxx”

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Package the source code
Run the snapshot

Action Plan

Note that this error appear after the snapshot get completely generated in Dashboard Service (CB)
Only Dashboard automation is not performed (Automated Action Plan and PDF generation if configured on Dashboard)

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Execute Linker - Error - Error while executing Procedure

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

While running the analysis the analysis crashes with the error in the CAST-MS log “Error while executing Procedure”, please find the screen shot below:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	✅ x < 1
8.0.x	✅ x<3
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Finalize Dataflow Security - Fatal Error - relation inkb dataflowscopes does not exist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information regarding a fatal error that comes up during the step “Finalize Dataflow Security” while taking a snapshot.
The following error message ERROR: relation “inkb_dataflowscopes” does not exist can be seen in the Cast-MS.log.txt.

INF: 2017-11-07 14:34:10: 	[SQL] {? = call odh_local.KB_DecodeGuidForDataFlow() }
INF: 2017-11-07 14:34:10: 	[SQL] 1: IO integer value
ERR: 2017-11-07 14:34:10: 	[SQL] ERROR: relation "inkb_dataflowscopes" does not exist
 Where: PL/pgSQL function odh_local.kb_decodeguidfordataflow() line 8 at SQL statement

Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Information - How to change label of an existing snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

How to change label of a existing snapshot ?

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Details

Steps

In CMS edit the central service containing the snapshot
Click on ‘Manage Snapshot’ action
Snapshot Definition window appears. Change the label of the snapshot in the editor. Click on OK to quit
In the central service, click on ‘Synchronize‘ action to commit the actions. The name of the snapshot will change in this editor

Notes / Comments

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Information - What is GUID - CPP Technology

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides the GUID formalism for C/C++ Technology

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

Object name**** : AGGR
Object full name : S:\Sources\MY_TKB_SOURCE\Analyzed\SUPP\src\tkb\emf.tab.hpp].[yytokentype].[AGGR]
GUID : C_Enum.yytokentype.C_EnumI.AGGR.C_Fi.“S:\SOURCES\MY_TKB_SOURCE\ANALYZED\SUPP\SRC\TKB\EMF..TAB..HPP”

In this example, the GUID is built this way : <Type of the parent object -not file>....C_FI.""

CMS Snapshot Analysis - J2EE - Information - Reason why the objects GUID get changed between two versions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will describe the cases where the GUID is changing between two versions of J2EE source code analyzed.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

After having identified the objects for which the GUID has changed, run the query from the page SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - How to get object GUID to get the object GUID of the current version :

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyser - Fatal Error - Universal Analyzer - Invalid type name xxx not declared in metamodel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides solution to error message - Invalid type name: ‘xxx’ (not declared in metamodel) which occurs during running Universal Analysis

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Configure UA analysis
Run Analysis

Action Plan

Check if the object type for which the error occurs is present on the Knowledge base
Run the below query for each object type

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyser - Warnings - PeopleSoft with extension - unresolved reference xx -1 used in property link callee

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the warning “unresolved reference xx.-1 used in property link.callee” which may occur while running UI job

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step Scenario

Configure peoplesoft analysis
Run Analysis
Open Analysis log file

Impact of the warning on Analysis Dashboard

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analysis - Error - Oracle Forms with Core CAST AIP - Attached library XXXX is not in the application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

Following message is raised, while analyzing an FMB which have attached libraries depending each other

FMB depends on A.pll depends B.pll

UNKNOWN ; Job execution: Attached library XXXX is not in the application.

Also no link is found between fmb and pll files.

Info

This issue has been observed in CAST version 7.0.9

Info

This was a bug and issue was fixed in 7.0.9 HF 18

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Crash - JEE with Extension - JEE Analyzer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will guide you to troubleshoot the problems you may face while running an analysis using the JEE Analyzer extension.

For more information, refer to:

Online-help : CAST Management Studio - Help > How To > Regular audience > Run analysis only
TKB page for INFORMATION GUIDE > CMS Snapshot Analysis

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
JEE Analyzer-1.x. 2.x, 3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Crash - Mainframe with Core CAST AIP - The analysis has not ended correctly Error code 2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When we run the analysis of PL1 the analysis crashes with the below error as shown in the attached screen shot

The analysis has not ended correctly (Error code 2)

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:
Package and deliver the source code.
Accept the delivery and set it as current version.
Run the analysis for the Mainframe analysis unit.

Impact of the Problem

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Crash - Web with extension - HTML5 and JavaScript

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When we run the analysis of HTML5/Javascript, the analysis crashes with the below pop-up, please find the screenshot attached: Analysis Runner has stopped working.

Figure 1

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
1.x, 2.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check for Third-Party framework files : Most developers put this kind of files into a folder called vendor or third-party. In case of doubt, open the file and see if a comment header containing Copyright information is found.
1. First check if some Third-Party Javascript frameworks were delivered as part of the source.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - CPP with Core CAST AIP - Some paths could not be substituted

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

The analysis of a C++ application fails from the beginning, with the following error in the analysis log file :

Some paths could not be substituted: `$(WINREGISTRY,“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual C++\ProductDir”)\MFC\Include, $(WINREGISTRY,“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual C++\ProductDir”)\Include’.

This error comes from a check done by the analyzer in the Windows registry before it starts working : if the Microsoft IDE required for analysis is not installed on the analysis machine, it will stop with this message

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - DOTNet with Core CAST AIP - A function was victim of an error during its execution

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

During a DOTNet analysis the analysis ended with the error “The analysis has not ended correctly” in CAST-MS GUI.

CAST-MS screenshot is shown below

Analysis log screenshot is shown below

Warning� MODULMSG ; Job execution� Could not resolve URL ‘http:///’ (system error code ‘12005’).� 0 ; 0� 0� � 0� [Module name]� 7� 2740� �
Error� MODULMSG ; Job execution� Invalid unxisting symbol table 0x7ad964c0 to be substracted from sized-array=0x29471ea00x336703b0): resulting sized-array will be similar to the source one.
Error� MODULMSG ; Job execution� Failed to remove symbol table 0x7ad964c0 from meta-symbol=0x12b4dcf0 (references:symbol=17,LRU+tables=1 / state#:12399)
Error� MODULMSG ; Job execution� A function was victim of an error during its execution.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - DOTNet with extension - DotNet Analyzer - Missing mandatory reference towards mscorlib project XXX will be skipped

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page explains the fatal error while running the analysis and its impact.

You can find the following fatal error in your analysis log file for the corresponding analysis unit.

2016-05-19 15:30:41.754 InformationMODULMSG ; Job executionStarting analysis of C:\CASTMS\Deploy\Source Code\Source Code\File.Website\File.Website.csproj (1 / 1)0; DOTNET
2016-05-19 15:30:43.189 FataLerrorMODULMSG ; Job executionMissing mandatory reference towards mscorlib: project C:\CASTMS\Deploy\Source Code\Source Code\File.Website\File.Website.csproj will be skipped0 ; 00 0DOTNET

As you can see from the fatal error that the analysis of project File.Website.csproj is being skipped, so you will not find any corresponding objects created in your knowledge base.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - IBM DB2 UDB with Core CAST AIP - DB2 UDB connection problem - Cannot Load DB2CLI dll

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides steps to troubleshoot the following DB2 analysis error.

SQL message: ERROR: Cannot load DB2CLI.DLL

SQL message: UDB Call Level Interface not found; cannot connect to this server with another connection layer.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - IBM DB2 ZOS with Core CAST AIP - The filter description file you are targeting does not exist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

The is page will outline the reason and the workaround for the error The filter description file < LISA_PATH\CAST-MS-generated.FILTER > you are targeting does not exist or access denied.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❓

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❓

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - JEE with Core CAST AIP - Java project initialization failed.Java features will not be supported

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

The analysis of a Java application fails with the error : Java project initialization failed.Java features will not be supported.

If you click on any warning related to classpath,you will have a detailed view mentioning the classpath entry .But at that location the EnvProf may not exist.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - JEE with Extension - JEE Analyzer - Database BCP operation dbbcp_done failed on table Local_base IN_CHAR_PROPERTIES

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Java analysis stopped abruptly with following error in the analysis log.

Database BCP operation dbbcp_done failed on table <Local_base>.IN_CHAR_PROPERTIES

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
JEE 1.2.x	(coche)
JEE 1.0.x	(coche)

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	(coche)
Microsoft SQL Server	(coche)
CSS3	(coche)
CSS2	(coche)

Action Plan

Follow the below steps to troubleshoot this issue:

Check the available disk space on the DB server. This error can happen in case of a disk space shortage. You need to get the PGAdmin log and check for the error “could not write block of temporary file: No space left on device”. If you have this error you should make some spaces in DB server and run the analysis. If remaining disk space is large enough (on DB server) then proceed to the next step, else release some disk space.
Check using pgadmin if there are queries still running on your KB. If so, cancel them.
Also use ServMan and use contextual menu Troubleshooting -> Remove locks on the KB. If this does not solve the issue proceed to next step
Sometimes this type of messages are generated when the local base tables are corrupt. So to fix the issue you need to perform component reinstall.
To perform component re-install, please check this page : Server Manager - Component Re-install, if this step do not help proceed to next step.
Check for any encoding issue in your source code. There are many tools available in internet to perform this checks.
For example : “UTFCast Professional (64-bit)” to recursively check if all the files are in UTF-8 encoding.
If you find any file not in UTF encoding then change the encoding to UTF-8 and run the analysis.
If any of the above steps do not work, then IN tables need to be enabled and checked. For this
1. Take the backup of the KB.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - JEE with extensions - Security for Java - FATAL com.castsoftware.castil.translation.sources.DependencyManager

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

While running Security for Java analysis you might encounter Fatal error in your Security for Java analysis log present in the LISA folder and no security rules are fired on dashboard:

In the analysis log file, you may find the following Warning message

Analysis log file

Information MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] “18:31:50.786 [main] FATAL com.castsoftware.castil.translation.sources.DependencyManager - Fatal exception in JDT while generating ASTs: java.lang.NullPointerException
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] java.lang.NullPointerException
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.MessageSend.analyseCode(MessageSend.java:120)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.AllocationExpression.analyseCode(AllocationExpression.java:117)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.LocalDeclaration.analyseCode(LocalDeclaration.java:87)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.MethodDeclaration.analyseCode(MethodDeclaration.java:124)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.TypeDeclaration.internalAnalyseCode(TypeDeclaration.java:737)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.TypeDeclaration.analyseCode(TypeDeclaration.java:261)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.CompilationUnitDeclaration.analyseCode(CompilationUnitDeclaration.java:118)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.process(Compiler.java:776)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.CompilationUnitResolver.resolve(CompilationUnitResolver.java:1005)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.CompilationUnitResolver.resolve(CompilationUnitResolver.java:636)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTParser.createASTs(ASTParser.java:990)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at com.castsoftware.castil.translation.sources.jdt.JDTTranslator.build(JDTTranslator.java:155)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at com.castsoftware.castil.translation.ApplicationTranslator.build(ApplicationTranslator.java:69)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at com.castsoftware.castil.translation.Main.loadConfigAndDo(Main.java:100)
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] at com.castsoftware.castil.translation.Main.main(Main.java:173)

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - Mainframe with Core CAST AIP - Invalid category CAST_COBOL_WithExplicitEnd used in type CAST_COBOL_StatementBlock

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Analysis of mainframe source would have following errors in the analysis logs " Invalid category ‘CAST_COBOL_WithExplicitEnd’ used in type ‘CAST_COBOL_StatementBlock’ “

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x, x< 2	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	❓
7.0.x	❓

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Discover the source and deliver
Run the analysis
See the Analysis log file for the error as shown in the screenshot.

Solution

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - Oracle Server PL SQL with Core CAST AIP - Error messages and possible reasons

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅


Severity	Frequence	Message	Reason	Workarround
ERROR	Frequent	Failed to get valid connection to participating server.	Check participating is correctly declared in TNSNAMES.ora , Check windows service TNS Listener is running.
		Failed to find identifier of the cursor to open
ERROR	Frequent	Failed to find select statement in open cursor for
ERROR	Rare	Failed to find expression in OPEN FOR USING statement
ERROR	Extremely Rare	failed to find the arguments of USING expression
INTERNAL	Frequent	Failed to find expression in execute immediate statement
INTERNAL	Rare	Failed to find for loop variable
INTERNAL	Extremely Rare	Failed to find lower bound expression in forall statement
WARNING	Frequent	Failed to find upper bound expression in forall statement
INTERNAL	Rare	Failed to find for indices list name
INTERNAL	Extremely Rare	Failed to find for values list name
		Failed to find select statement in sql select
		Failed to find star or select item list
		Failed to find from clause
		Failed to find expression in having clause
		Failed to find expression in connect clause
		Failed to find expression in start clause
		Failed to find alias for factorized query
		Failed to find subquery for factorized query
		Failed to find referenced table or subquery
		Failed to find left from table reference of joined table
		Failed to find right from table reference of joined table
		Failed to find list of column names in joined table
		Failed to find expression in where clause
		Failed to find into clause
		Failed to scan Object_id
		Failed to find table or joined table
		Failed to find from table reference
		Failed to find NOM_TABLE_VUE from merge_into_clause
		Failed to lock a schema, synchronization aborted
		An error occurred during the synchronization process.
		The following events may have prevented the correct synchronization of all objects you had selected:%ERROR_MESSAGE%
		Some objects were not taken into account.The following events may have prevented the correct synchronization of all objects you had selected:%ERROR_MESSAGE%
Error		Syntax error is raised in the log, if the “model clause” is used in the source code Example: select empno, ename from emp where deptno = 10 model return updated rows	Model clause is not supported by Analyzer This information is also going to be added in the release notes (known issue) in CAST version 7.0.4
Error	Rare	“Unexternalized exception - Message is ‘access violation’.”	In the analysis log check the last line of the log, It will give a hint of a file which has problem while getting parsed.	Comment that particular file in uaxdirectory file and run the analysis.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - Power Builder with Core CAST AIP - Cannot load XXX PowerBuilder pborc version dll - The specified module could not be found

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides steps to troubleshoot the following Power Builder analysis error.

Cannot load XXX PowerBuilder pborc.dll. The specified module could not be found

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Use Delivery Manager Tool and deliver the source code.
Run analysis.

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - SAP Business Objects with Core CAST AIP

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will guide you to troubleshoot the problem you may face while running the analysis.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation
- 8.3 Documentation - Run and validate the analysis
- 8.2 Documentation - Execute the Analysis
- 8.1 Documentation - Execute the Analysis
- 8.0 Documentation - Execute the Analysis
- 7.3 Documentation - Execute the Analysis
Online-help : CAST Management Studio - Help > How To > Regular audience > Run analysis only
TKB page for INFORMATION GUIDE > CMS Snapshot Analysis

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - SQL Error - ABAP - duplicate key value violates unique constraint

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the error which is faced when running an ABAP analysis :

The error only occurs on the 2nd analysis. The first analysis will succeed and will properly create the objects, but any subsequent analyses will fail.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	✅ x < 2
8.1.x	✅ x < 2
8.0.x	✅ x < 5
7.3.x	✅ x < 11

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - SQL Server TSQL with Core CAST AIP - KB Name Knowledge Base trunc. log on chkpt option value is currently OFF

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

Following error is encountered during T-SQL analysis

’’ Knowledge Base ’trunc. log on chkpt.’ option value is currently OFF.
Database option ’trunc. log on chkpt.’ should be turned ON before proceeding (please run ‘sp_dboption’).
‘dbname’ database synchronization terminated with following error code : SYNC-4993.3987.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Action Plan

This option need to be set for the SQL Server Knowledge base. In fact This option helps ensure that the transaction log of the database does not fill up, and prevents problems that may occur due to missing log space in the database.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - Sybase - Null value in column parameter name violates not null constraint

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides solution to the error message - “Null value in column ‘parameter name’ violates non-null constraint”, which occurs during the analysis of a Sybase database extraction (see screenshot)

This error occurs when one of the views is defined with a constant column instead of the name of an existing column of a table.

This is due to a known bug in the Database Extractor, that generates an XML node with an empty resolutionName attribute in this case. Then the analyzer tries to insert an object with a NULL parameter into the local base, and fails due to the non-null contraint.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Fatal Error - Visual Basic with Core CAST AIP - An Exception occurred while processing analysis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

During a VB6 analysis the analysis ended with the error “The analysis has not ended correctly (Error code 2)” in the CAST-MS.

Please find the screen shot below:

Below is the error in the analysis log:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	✅ x < 1
8.0.x	✅ x < 3
7.3.x	✅ x < 10
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - ABAP - Missing SAP views

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the problem of missing SAP View objects after a SAP/ABAP analysis.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Analyze your application
Open Enlighten
Look for SAP View objects

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

Perform the below actions:

In analysis log, look for warning “unterminated entity reference" just after the information message Loading SAP tables like below:

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - BO with extension - BO Analyzer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page handles the issue of missing objects after analyzing Business Objects applications using SAP BO extension.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS2	✅
CSS3	✅

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Check if the source files for the missing objects are present in the deploy folder. Here we need to check if BXML file is correctly extracted from UNV file.
Get an example of the objects which is missing say “BO class” object and see from which BXML file it belongs to and then further investigate on that file as described below.
1. Open the analysis log and see the analysis of the BXML file, check if we have any warnings/error for that BXML file or if there is nothing in the analysis log related to that file. Ideally in BO analysis, the occurrence of BXML file will be several times.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - CPP with Core CAST AIP - Preprocessed artifact not getting added in Knowledge base

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

After analyzing the source code, artifacts are coming in the pre-processed file, but some of them are not getting added in KB

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

Action Plan

Using the preprocessed file, note the source file in which the preprocessed artifact belong to
Open the noted source file using notepad ++
Check if the file is ended by a Ctrl Z character (1A hexa, 26 decimal), which is an old EndOfFile marker.
If there is any, then remove it and save the file
Reanalyze the job

Notes

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - Dotnet with extension - Dotnet Analyzer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page handles the issue of missing objects after analyzing DOTNet applications using Dotnet extension.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

If you have *.xproj files, these are not current supported by the dotnet analyzer. You can potentially convert them to *.csproj files which can be analyzed. This page may possibly help with this conversion: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-migrate

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - JEE with extension - JEE Analyzer - Missing Hibernate Entity

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When you run the JEE analysis with Hibernate framework, Hibernate Entities are not created.

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
1.0.3	✅
1.0.2	✅
1.0.1	✅
1.0.0	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Migrate the application from lower version to higher version.
Run the analysis on migrated base.
Open enlighten and check for the Hibernate Entity, there would not be any Hibernate entity created.

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - JEE with extension - Struts Analyzer - Missing Struts Operation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When you run the JEE analysis with the Apache Struts Extension on top of the JEE Analyzer, it can occur that some Struts Operations are not created whereas they are expected.

Official Documentation : Apache Struts - 1.0

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
1.0.2-FuncRel	❌
1.0.1-FuncRel	✅
1.0.0-FuncRel	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Check customer expectation : should a Struts Operation be created for this method ?
1. Determine the version of Struts being used in the code : find file struts-config.xml or struts.xml in the source. The version will be specified on the second line as follows :

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - Python with extension - Python Analyzer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page handles the issue of missing objects after analyzing Python applications using Python analyzer.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS2	✅
CSS3	✅

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Check if the source files for the missing objects are present in the deploy folder.
If files are present check the analysis log for any warnings in the analysis log corresponding to source code file
1. If you find a warning like below example:
  com.castsoftware.python] Light parsing of file C:\CAST\Deploy\VAL\Source\applications\reportApp\views.py
  Information MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.python] File seems to have an incorrect indentation, skipping
  From the above warning, the file seems to have skipped due to incorrect indentation in the python file, you can test the same at your side:
  1. Open command line from \ThirdParty\Python34 and run the python file. It should give following error
  2. From the above it looks like there is an issue in line no. 40 and hence has to be corrected before running the analysis, either you can properly intend it or ask application team to provide you correct python file.
2. For any other warning please refer to CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings
If above action plan does not solve the issue, report your problem to CAST Technical Support with the below Relevant input

Relevant input

Sherlock export with the following options: Export Logs, Export Configuration files, Export CAST Bases (Management Base and Knowledge Base), source code
In some cases, unless asked by support, the IN tables are also needed to investigate the missing object issue. Support will provide specific instructions to execute the following process when this is needed:
- Activate the IN Tables
- Run the Analysis.
- Take Sherlock with the above-mentioned options
- Deactivate the IN Tables

Notes/comments

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - Shell with extension - Missing Shell program artifacts

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when there are missing Shell program artifacts.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis for SHELL application

Action Plan

Check if the pre-processor log file was created (refer the following file for the log file location: CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs)
If the pre-processor log file was created then Check if the pre-processor has crashed, then re-mediate, else go to the next step
1. In order to check if the pre-processor has crashed,open the SHELL pre-processor log file “shell_pp_report_MM-DD-YYY_HHMMSS.txt” (refer to the following file for the log file location: CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs):
  The SHELL pre-processor log file should be as follows:

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - Tibco with extension - Missing End of activity objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

After Tibco analysis on 7.3.x/8.0.x is done using the Tibco package, End of activity objects are missing.

The missing objects were correctly identified when using the legacy Tibco analyzer in 7.0.x.

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
1.0.3	✅

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅

Step by step scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - Web with extension - HTML5 and JavaScript - Missing ASP.NET Operation objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When analyzing a .NET application, HTML5 extension was not called by the .NET analyzer for the creation of ASP.NET operation objects and hence ASP.NET operations objects were not created and saved.

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
2.0.x, x>16	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS2	✅
CSS3	✅

Step by Step Scenario

ServMan → Manage Extensions → install HTML5/Javascript extension on the triplet
Create a user-defined Universal Analysis Unit for HTML5/Javascript
Run the analysis on javascript source code.

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - Architecture Layer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

In enlighten the links were not coming up between the architecture layers i.e. UI -> BL -> DAL

Links were missing between the layers.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x, x < 6	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	❌
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Package and deliver the source code
Run the analysis
Links are found to be missing between the architecture layer’s method, as shown in the screen shot below:

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - ASP - Missing links between ASP files and SQL Server Objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The main purpose of this page is to explain how to proceed to create a link between ASP files and SQL Server objects when it is expected to be made by the analyzer.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	✅ x < 1
8.0.x	✅ x < 3
7.3.x	✅ x < 10

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - EJB

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This guide provides the approach to troubleshoot missing or wrong / incorrect links between EJB objects.

Links detected and saved by analyzer

JEE - Analysis results

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

There are no issues encountered in EJB yet.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - J2EE - Missing links between JSP pages and other object

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page describes the solution for Missing links between JSP pages and other objects.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Action Plan

Identify where the object is called: which file? In HTML tag or JSP Custom Tag? The resolution of the problem will depend on this and the type of the callee object.
1. If the missing is from an html tag you should propose a reference finder.
2. If the missing link is from a JSP custom tag the issue may come from different reasons.
  1. Check whether the TLD’s are correctly defined in the header of the file.
  2. Check whether It has correctly been resolved by the analyzer.
  3. Check the cast-tags.extensions files if your tag is correctly handled.
  4. A reference finder may be a workaround.
It is expected to not have links from JSP that calls action to JSP page and from Java method to JSP page.
It is expected to not have links from Struts to JSP, otherwise it will reverse the transaction where we consider the entry point as the Front end (JSP) and exit point as the Back end (server method or database).The idea behind this modeling is to avoid loops between client/ server.

Notes/Comments

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - Mainframe - Missing Cobol Dynamic links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

A bug has been detected that has caused inconsistent results with regard to the generation of dynamic links (by the Inference Engine) during a Mainframe Cobol analysis.

Some valid dynamic links are not discovered by the Inference Engine, and the results may vary with the version of the analyzed application, even if the source code for the links has not changed : the missing links may not be the same.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - Oracle Forms - Source code and links not displayed in Enlighten for the RECORD GROUP objects in Oracle Forms

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides information about the Source code and links which are not displayed in the Enlighten for RECORD GROUP object belonging to Oracle Forms.

Record Group: A record group is an oracle forms data structure that has a column/row framework similar to a database table

Please note this can also lead to missing link from this object (i.e. link missing from the Record Group and the object which is being reference in the code of Record Group).

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - PL SQL - Missing link between source code of any technology and Oracle table

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page provides the solution to the issue of Missing link between any source code and Oracle database table.

Example code:

test.php

require ‘connection_db.php’;

$result = mysql_query(“select * from table1 where AN_OP=’”.$_SESSION[‘Oper_Saisie’]."’ and AN_CODE=‘0000000041’ and AN_AIF=‘O’ “);

So here link is expected from tect .php to table “table1”

Info

This issue has been observed in CAST version 7.0.19 & PHP package : CAST_UA_CoE_PHP_ConfigPack_7.0

Applicable in CAST Version

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong Links per technology - Sybase - Links between Sybase objects of different database is not shown when table name is prefix with double dot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides solution to the missing link between two objects of SYBASE, say procedure and table when both belong to two different databases and when table name is prefixed with double dot.

Select from Database.schemaname.tablename.

Ideally link should be created for following two syntax as shown in the below screenshot:

Select from Database..tablename

However for 2nd case link is not created from procedure to table when such syntax is used in procedure as shown above.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - ABAP with Core CAST AIP - SAP Table not being analyzed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Description

Tables not getting analyzed

for example :
12 xml files to be analyzed, but every time only “SAP_tables_0001.sap.xml” file is been analyzing the rest all files are not analyzed.
However after renaming all the xml file by sequence it ran fine.

Info

This issue was observed in CAST 7.0.21

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - CPP with extension - Remedy the errors read in the analysis log file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page can be used to remedy the errors in the analysis log file, that can appear while running an analysis using the CPP extension.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation
- Official documentation: C and Cpp Analyzer

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
2.3	✅
2.2	✅
2.1	✅
2.0	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Perform the following steps:

If the source code is built in VC6 then the project files created would be with the extensions .dsp and .dsw which are not managed by any discoverers which is already documented. This approach will decrease the effort we need to put in the manual configurations.
1. Open the project file .dsw and / or all required .dsp in a recent Microsotf Visual Studio IDE.
2. Visual studio will automatically propose to upgrade project files and create .vcxproj files
3. Use DMT and package the new source code with .vcxproj files which would discover the AUs automatically with correct configuration and then deliver
4. Accept the delivery and set it as current version.
5. In CMS select the Visual studio version used to convert the .dsp files as IDE
For all the projects built on Microsoft IDEs. Having Visual Studio installed is mandatory (Third-party Software Required by CAST)To check if the VS is installed correctly or not we need to follow below steps.
1. In CMS, Open ‘Manage Environment Profiles’ Dialog box
2. Select the IDE which you choose in CMS.
  Figure 1
3. the $(WINREGISTRY…..) values are existing in the registry
4. that the value of these registry keys are valid folders on the analysis machine, and that required subfolders are existing
When we cannot install a VS on the analysis machine do the following.
1. Get the list of necessary folders by looking at the corresponding Environment Profile as explained in Step 2.
2. Copy necessary folders from another computer where the VS is installed
3. Create the clone for for the environment profile “VC++ XXXXX - Mandatory part” and replace the values
  $(WINREGISTRY,“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\CurrentInstallFolder”)\include
  with the path of the folders, for exemple
  C:\MYVCXXXHEADERS\include
Compilation Error messages
1. When you get many compilation error messages (‘parser’ xxx expected, parser variable has already a name, parser xxxx)(one or two message per line of an analyzed file), first try to correct erroneous include paths, and then work on macro definition. The main exception to this rule is when you see that a wrong header file is included (for instance, trying to include <windows.h> on linux), and the selection of file to include depends on a configuration macro. As a tip, you should not usually have to define more than a dozen macros. As long as there is not a reasonable number of parser messages, it helps nothing to let the analysis go further. Therefore, the macro definitions must be fixed first in the job configuration. Always run a test analysis to check if you have errors in the test analysis log and then try to improve it one by one.
2. In case the source code contain C & C++ files or some files are written in C++, even if their name ends with “C”, then it is important to separate your C and C++ files into 2 separate jobs, linked together.
3. If the log contains some of the below error messages, it means that there is a compilation problem. Configure the job so that the first file gets analyzed without errors:
  1. [Configuration] error: Encountered #error directive: <For instance : MFC requires use of Winsock2 .h>
    1. This is the message issued by the pre-processed file and comes when you have directly or indirectly included < Winsock2.h> before which conflicts with for instance< Winsock2.h> that has to be used for MFC. The compilation stops after this message and analysis ends with a fatal error
    2. Check for the configuration errors before this fatal error and fix those configuration errors first.If it doesn’t solve the issue,proceed by the process of Dichotomy to identify which file causes the issue.
  2. [ Configuration ] FAR: Unknown identifier ‘XXX’ is probably an unknown compilation directive, the following results could be inconsistent. (file ‘S:\WORLDWIDE...\SSDLL.H’, line 154)__ [ Configuration ] FAR: Please consider reviewing your settings. (file ‘S:\WORLDWIDE...\SSDLL.H’, line 154)
  3. [Configuration] error: Encountered #error* directive: ERROR : Use of C run time library internal header file .. (file ‘C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86){}MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 10.0\VC\CRT\SRC\CRTDEFS.H’, line 36). This usually comes from include paths, defined by the user, that refer to Microsoft header files. The include paths encompass too many directories, and should be more restrictive. See section about Microsoft include paths.
Parser Error messages. The below warnings concern internal functions of gcc __builtin_va_xxx (referenced in stdargs.h). The warning is specifically a system warning with no impact on the analysis:
1. [ parser ] xxx : Single operand or parenthesized expression expected. (file ‘U:\company\appname\SRC\xyz.C’, line 163)
  When such messages appear, they may not denote a serious problem. If they appear inside the body of a function, you will lose some links starting from the function, and no more. If they appear in the function header, you will maybe lose the whole function. When the code around the error refers templates (code with lots of “<>” : std::map<std::vector >), this is often an effect of missing header files (see section about pre-processor messages), which can be identified by running test analysis and checking the test analysis log. After running test analysis user will see the entries of missing headers in the test analysis log.
2. [ parser ] [: Unmatched parenthesis, brace or bracket, last valid position at …
  and there is only a “<:” at the mentioned position:
  ‘<:’ is a CPP convention for denoting ‘[’. In this specific case, you need to deactivate the option Accept trigraphs
3. Unresolved name ‘xxx’(file ‘Z:\SOURCE...\ASN1KEYS.C’, line 79)
4. Preprocessor cannot find file ‘xx\xxx.hpp’. (file ‘Z:\SOURCE...\ABOUT.H’, line 5)
5. Function xxxx() is called without having been declared. (file ‘Z:\SOURCE...\ASN1KEYS.C’, line 80)
6. [Parser] –: Unexpected token: –. [ Unexpected token is raised in cases when the trigraphs is used in the source. So to get rid of such warning, Just check the option “accept” trigraphs in the analysis option ]
7. If you encounter warnings like Warning: [Parser] __attribute__: ‘;’, ‘,’, or ‘=’ expected, refer CMS Snapshot analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - CPP with Core CAST AIP - Parser_attribute

Notes

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - DOTNet with extension - DOTNet Analyzer - An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

DOTNet analysis fails with below errors:

2019-01-21 10:55:39.149341 Error MODULMSG ; Job execution DOTNET.0102:Unexpected Exception.
2019-01-21 10:55:39.153340 Error MODULMSG ; Job execution An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - JEE with extension - JEE Analyzer - An error occurred while parsing file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

When the JEE analyzer parses the java files we sometimes see the below error:

Error MODULMSG ; Job execution an error occurred while parsing file ‘S:\Sources\Test_app\Analyzed\Code\wsdl\notify.wsdl’

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
1.0.x, x<10	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

The error message indicates that the analyzer has failed to parse wsdl file because either the file is commented or the end tag of an element is missing. This is an expected behavior as the file is not valid when the end tag is missing.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - Oracle Server PL SQL with Core CAST AIP - Invalid category comment used in type CAST Oracle RelationalTable

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

During an application analysis the analysis ends up with the DB error “Invalid category ‘comment’ used in type ‘CAST_Oracle_RelationalTable’ “.

Please find the screen shot below:

Below are the warnings in the analysis log:

The problem is because of the fact that the extraction has been made with a different extractor version than the one used for analysis.

The analysis is run with CAST version 8.0.0 and the extractor being used is of version 2.6 (find the below screen shot of CASTDatabase.config ) which was released after 8.0.0. Category “Comment” is extracted from a different version which 8.0.0 does not handle.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - Siebel with extension - Malformed UAX category xxxx is defined twice for a same instance guid

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps to troubleshoot issues with the below error that occurs during Siebel Analysis

Malformed UAX : category ‘XXX’ is defined twice for a same instance (guid = ‘XXX’)

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
5.1	✅
5.0	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run Analysis

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - SQL Server TSQL with Core CAST AIP - Too many nested levels for syntax-tree searchings sorry

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

Description

While running the database analysis, following error is encountered.

Too many nested levels for syntax-tree searchings, sorry

Solution

This error, indicate that there is a function that has too many nested calls and thereby the code is too long. The analyzer cannot evaluate all.
So, this function will not be analyzed, but this does not affect the rest of the analysis and will run correctly.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Non Fatal Error - Visual Basic with Core CAST AIP - VB6 analyzer aborts with error 1 is not a valid Win32 application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

On running analysis of VB6 application, the analysis ends with error in the analysis log file as:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Run analysis of VB6 application
Navigate to the VB6 folder under Cast Installation directory ->
Open command prompt as Administrator from that location.
Run the command on the command prompt : Anarun.exe
You will encounter error message from Windows as above.
Analysis ends with error in analysis log

Impact of the Problem

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Performance issue - Analyze Source code step

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to Performance issues that may occur during the analysis of the application source code. During this step, the analyzer parses the files and allocates the parse results in memory.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Package and deliver the source code.
Set as current version the application.
Run the analysis.
Open the log file, the parsing step is very long between two lines or does not advance.

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Performance issue - DB2 ZOS - Analysis getting stuck at Prepare to process following file XXXX

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides information about DB2 ZOS analysis getting stuck or stalled at Prepare to process following file XXXX

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step Scenario

Run Analysis

Action Plan

This issue may occur if there is any blank line at the end of the DB2 file being analyzed.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Performance issue - DOTNet - Analysis getting stuck at serialization step

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

.Net Analysis getting stuck at serialization step and analysis is not proceeding further

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	❌
CSS1	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis of .Net Job

Action Plan

Identify the file due to which analysis is getting stuck

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - DOTNet with extension - DotNet Analyzer - An unexpected exception occurred while loading project Project excluded from analysis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

While running the .NET analysis you may get the below type of warnings in your analysis log:

2020-03-05 09:35:24.697112 Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution DOTNET.0156: An unexpected exception occurred while loading project D:\CASTFiles\CastSource\Test_code\test.csproj. Project excluded from the analysis.

2020-03-05 09:35:24.697112 Information MODULMSG ; Job execution System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\CAST%20Files\Misc\Plugins%20&%20Extensions\com.castsoftware.dotnet.1.2.4-build11002577\third_parties\microsoft.netcore.app.ref.3.1.0’.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator1.CommonInit() at System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator1..ctor(String path, String originalUserPath, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption, SearchResultHandler1 resultHandler, Boolean checkHost) at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.EnumerateFiles(String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption) at Roslyn.DotNet.ProjectBuilders.FrameworkInfo.GetAssembliesName(String path) at Roslyn.DotNet.ProjectBuilders.FrameworkInfo.HasAssembly(String asmName) at Roslyn.DotNet.Extractions.ExtractionManager.ReadManifest(FileInfo fwe, Stream manifest, ZipArchive archive) at Roslyn.DotNet.Extractions.ExtractionManager.OpenExtraction(FileInfo fwe) at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectEnumerableIterator2.MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereEnumerableIterator1.MoveNext() at Roslyn.DotNet.Extractions.ExtractionManager.Init() at Roslyn.DotNet.Extractions.ExtractionManager.SelectPackage(String name, FrameworkKind kind, Version ver) at Roslyn.DotNet.ProjectBuilders.RawProjectBuilder.AddProjectToSolution(Solution& solution, DotNetProject projectDesc, List1 loadedProjects)
at Roslyn.DotNet.ProjectBuilders.WorkspaceBuilder.LoadAtSolutionLevel(Solution& solution, IEnumerable1 projectsToLoad, List1 loadedProjects)

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - HTML5 and JS with extension - end of comment not found

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page is a guide for the below warning:

2017-01-15 22:02:46.033127 Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution end of comment ‘\*/’ not found 0 ; 0 0 0 [Module name] 0 0
2017-01-15 22:02:46.033127 Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution File skipped : K:\CAST\CASTMS\Deploy\test-staticresources\bower_components\angular\angular.min.js

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - JEE with extension - JEE Analyzer - Classpath entry cannot be resolved

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

The page provides you with the information about the warning “classpath entry can not be resolved” and the procedure to counter the warnings.

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
JEE 1.1.x	(coche)
JEE 1.0.x	(coche)

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	(coche)
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step Scenario

Discover the source.
Accept delivery and run the analysis.
Open logs and observe that you have following warnings in the logs.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - JEE with extension - Security for Java - Missing CastIL translation project file project xml file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

While running security for Java extension you will get below warning in the analysis log:

[com.castsoftware.securityforjava] Missing CastIL translation project file project.xml file : I:\Implementation\LargeStorageArea\LISA\7886be2cf3c34d09a9f38371c6651e17\Scrc9c497db3c16445ebf5efd567ee4b665\project.xml

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x, where x ≥ 3	✅
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	(coche)
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Package and deliver an application in DMT
Accept the delivery
Run the snapshot

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - JEE with extension - Struts Analyzer- No class exists for action mapping

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem

This page describes the solution to the following warnings that you may encounter when using Struts extension.

Information�    MODULMSG ; Job execution�    [com.castsoftware.struts] creating operation S:\Sources\Test_App\Analyzed\nt\src\WEB-INF\struts-config.xml/CAST_Struts_Operation/reportfilter-setup  
Warning�    MODULMSG ; Job execution�    [com.castsoftware.struts] No class exists for action mapping /reportfilter --> org.apache.struts.action.Action  

Information�    MODULMSG ; Job execution�    [com.castsoftware.struts] creating operation S:\Sources\Test_App\Analyzed\gm\src\WEB-INF\struts-config.xml/CAST_Struts_Operation/servlet/test_App/test_main
Warning�    MODULMSG ; Job execution�    [com.castsoftware.struts] No class exists for action mapping /servlet/test_app/logoff --> None

Observed in CAST Extension

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - Mainframe with Extension - Mainframe 09 Cannot resolve DD name

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page explains and provides suggestions to resolve the warning message “Mainframe.09: Cannot resolve DD name XXXX” found in the Mainframe analysis log.

Data definition (DD) statements define the data sets that a Cobol program or procedure uses when it runs. JCL Steps declare the Cobol program to execute, along with its datasets

The name field contains a one-through eight-character name, known as a DDNAME, that identifies the DD statement.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - Oracle Server PL SQL with Core CAST AIP - Internal exception occurred during processing listener

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will troubleshoot the warning message Internal exception occurred during processing listener you may face during a PL/SQL analysis. The error is like below :

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

If the full warning message is like : Internal exception occurred during processing listener SQLCodeChecker::TriangularJoinCheckerAction::walkTree, like below screenshot :
Open Notepad++ and search in folder for the item in red in the \Configuration\AMT . In that example, check for TriangularJoinCheckerAction. The result of the search is :
If the action name is in the , the warning message is not blocking, and the action name can be commented to not being resolved during analysis. Then, the warning would not appear. The main impact is that one Diag will not be computed.
If the action name is not in the , then the warning is blocking and must be investigated by CAST Technical Support. The warning occurs when the analyzer is parsing the file indicated in the warning message. The workaround is to remove this file and to run the analysis again. This file is requested to reproduce the issue along with external source (Classpath for JAVA, Include files for C / C++, libraries for Mainframe, UAX and UAXDIRECTORY for PL/SQL, etc…). In the above example, the source file is S:\CASTTemplate...****\Deploy...\PR.7906.src, the external soure file are the corresponding UAX file (PR.7096.uax) and the CASTDATABASE.UAXDIRECTORY.
We also get warning like below sometimes which is related to analysis of trigger in PLSQL analysis, the impact of this issue would be user will not get link between trigger and table
Internal exception occurred during processing listener PLSQLActionsImpl::PLSQLResolutionVisitsAction::walkTree on instance CAST_Oracle_DML_Trigger #102765defined in {CAST_TargetSourceFile #102767 of path ’ src’ of name ‘S:\SOURCES*AA\Aa Clarity\deliveryResults\TR.322.src’ of full-name ‘S:\SOURCES\AA\Aa\deliveryResults\TR.322.src’} at line 1 at col 1 : access* violation
This issue has been fixed in AIP 8.0.5 and ported to latest AIP like 8.2.7
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, contact CAST Technical Support with the Relevant Input in order to reproduce.

Notes/comments

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - Oracle Server PL SQL with Core CAST AIP - Syntax error - AS OF

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

The page details out syntax Error when analyzing an Oracle offline extraction due to the “AS OF “ statements, for example :

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW ROGPUBRND1_MCQ."FDC_VIN" ("ID_FDC","LIBELLE","CODE_FONCTION","CODE_GROUPE","CATEGORIE")
AS SELECT "ID_FDC","LIBELLE","CODE_FONCTION","CODE_GROUPE","CATEGORIE"
FROM ROGPUBND.FDC as of scn to_number(userenv('client_info'))

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	✅x<7
7.2.x	✅x<6
7.0.x	❌

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - PHP with extension - Internal exception occurred during processing listener error retrieving language pattern file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the solution for the following warning which may occur during PHP analysis

Internal exception occurred during processing listener CUniversalAnalyzerAction::launchPreprocessing on instance CAST_UA_Preprocessing #3 : error retrieving language pattern file for language PHP after which the snapshot generation errors out with empty module error :
The following modules are empty: “ABC1 full content”

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - PL1 with extension - Unable to find the object end for type

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the warning Unable to find the object end for type XXXX which occurs during PL1 analysis.

This warning occurs if the analyzed source file does not contain END for the object type being reported.
For example “Unable to find the object end for type ‘PL1 Function’” means that the analyzed source file does not contain END for the function.

Error Free Logs - CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - PL1 - Error Free Logs - CAST AIP 83

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - Power Builder with Core CAST AIP - syntax error global type

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution to the following warning in the log file which you may get while analyzing power builder source code

syntax error

global type m_ — from m_i-

end type

type m_- from menu within m_tools

————^

end type

type m_ -1 from menu within m_tools

end type

Screen shot is shown below

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - RPG with extension - The complexity of matching the regular expression exceeded predefined bounds

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the below warnings:

Starting processing of file ‘P:\Storage\LISA\1a2b57b974914a7ab487936006f68eca\Scr04ec1ca082b04c5d87668ffc3bd84a7d\Source_MENURPG400RPG300DDS400CL400_43954\817661258_RPG400\FMPPGMSRC_CCILRSRC_MNCI1.rpgle’ P:\Storage\LISA\1a2b57b974914a7ab487936006f68eca\Scr04ec1ca082b04c5d87668ffc3bd84a7d\Source_MENURPG400RPG300DDS400CL400_43954\817661258_RPG400\FMPPGMSRC_CCILRSRC_MNCI1.rpgle
2020-07-06 03:40:23.130289 Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution The following error “The complexity of matching the regular expression exceeded predefined bounds. Try refactoring the regular expression to make each choice made by the state machine unambiguous. This exception is thrown to prevent “eternal” matches that take an indefinite period time to locate.” occurred while searching a substring matching regular expression “[.][.][.]|[[:blank:]]+[pP][rR]". castregexp\boostregexptemplate.cpp

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - Shell with extension - End of string not found file skipped

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the warning shown below that occurs during Shell analysis.

2016-08-29 05:21:32.812 Information Starting processing of file ‘I:\Implementation\LargeStorageArea\LISA\3e90487070ea4d329bd2925c277d356d/Scr14185\Shell\3323920321_SHELL\icore\Util\UserMgmt\eitExtract.sh’
2016-08-29 05:21:32.812 Information [com.castsoftware.html5] File I:\Implementation\LargeStorageArea\LISA\3e90487070ea4d329bd2925c277d356d/Scr14185\Shell\3323920321_SHELL\icore\Util\UserMgmt\eitExtract.sh has been skipped
2016-08-29 05:21:32.812 Warning end of string ‘"’ not found
2016-08-29 05:21:32.812 Warning File skipped : I:\Implementation\LargeStorageArea\LISA\3e90487070ea4d329bd2925c277d356d/Scr14185\Shell\3323920321_SHELL\icore\Util\UserMgmt\eitExtract.sh

Error Free Logs - CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Universal Analyzer - Shell - Error Free Logs - CAST AIP 83

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - Web with extension - TypeScript and Angular - Loaded environment file is not declared for production code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When you run the TypeScript analysis in the analysis log you may receive warnings as shown below:

Information MODULMSG ; Job execution Starting processing of file ‘C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts’C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts
Information MODULMSG ; Job execution Starting processing of file ‘C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts’C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts
Information MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.typescript] Light analysis of file C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts
Information MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.typescript] Deep analysis of file C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.typescript] Loaded environment file is not declared for production code: C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.typescript] Loaded environment file is not declared for production code: C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.typescript] Loaded environment file is not declared for production code: C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts
Warning MODULMSG ; Job execution [com.castsoftware.typescript] Loaded environment file is not declared for production code: C:\WEBI\AipNode\data\deploy\Test_code\main_sources\frontend\src\environment.ts

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Wrong objects - DotNet - ASP Source File

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When analyzing an application using DotNet analyzer the ASP files are analyzed and present in Knowledge Base whereas they should not.

The DotNet analyzer should not analyze any ASP files.

Ideally ASP objects should be created either by ASP analyzer or HTML5 extension instead of DotNet analyzer.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Wrong objects - DOTNet with extension - Entity Framework - Statement used with a logger method seen as Entity Wrapper Type object

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the problem on Enlighten where an unexpected Entity Wrapper Type object is present, based on a string found in the logger methods.

This issue affects extension Entity Framework 1.0.0-FuncRel

Example :

Figure 1

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
Entity Framework 1.0.0	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Wrong objects - Mainframe - Unknown Program

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When analyzing an application using Mainframe analyzer, an Unknown Program object is created when the source code contains a call to a program that is undefined (not present in the source code).

In this case, some Unknown Programs are present in Knowledge Base whereas there is no call for their names in the source code.

It happens when a variable defined with N characters is first assigned a program name with N characters, then assigned a program name with P characters (P < N).

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Wrong objects - Web with extension - HTML5 and JavaScript - Wrong Javascript files

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When analyzing an application using HTML5/Javascript extension, some Javascript files are analyzed and present in Knowledge Base whereas they should not.

As explained in .NET - ASP.NET MVC Razor support files from third-party frameworks or tools should not be analyzed, as they are not part of user application.

But CAST AIP cannot know every tool or every framework on the market, and some might have been forgotten in the exclusion filters located in file filters.json

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Copy Paste Metrics Calculation - Error - The program XMLTODB has not ended correctly - error code 1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

At the beginning of a snapshot (Run Copy Paste Metrics Calculation phase), CAST will save data in the databases by using the the XmlToDb transfer.

Refer to CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Copy Paste Metrics Calculation - Error Free Logs - CAST AIP 83

for description of the step.

This page will explain how to manage the “The program XMLTODB has not ended correctly (error code “1”)” error message.

When this issue occurs, the analysis is aborted

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run CSV Generation - Performance Issue - CSV Generation Job runs infinitely

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When snapshot is run, Run CSV task gets stuck.

Figure 1

The log of Run CSV Generation task also gets stuck as shown below:

Figure 2

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	✅ x < 1
7.3.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CMS Snapshot analysis - Run Data Flow Security Analysis - Save Results to Database - Error - User Input Data Flow Security analysis working file is missing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to troubleshoot fatal error that occurs when Saving the results of dataflow to the local database and the process throws the error

ERR: 2021-05-19 16:42:12: User Input Data Flow Security analysis working file is missing for the application XXX. Ensure its jobs has been properly run after the User Input Data Flow Security analysis option has been activated.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Dataflow Security Analysis - Run J2EE or NET Data Flow Security - Crash

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to troubleshoot crash issues while running the Run Data Flow Security Analysis step .

Below screen shot shows an example of a crash of DataflowRunner.exe

For more information, refer to:
- Official 8.3 Documentation - User Input Security and Application - Security Dataflow

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Dynamic Link Manager - Dynamic Links Not Reviewed - Out of 0 links to be reviewed 0 have been validated and 0 links have been ignored

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the issue where ignoring dynamic links based on the left part of the link, using a regexp does not work.

If you run the below command line, you are still not able to ignore the links.

C:\CAST\7.3\DLM\DynamicLinks.CLI.exe executeRules --ruleFile="C:\Accounts\Test\tools\DLM_rules\txMiddleware.dlm.xml" --profile="test_txmiddle"
2016-01-05 11:37:37,193 [1] INFO DynamicLinks main - DynamicLinks.CLI.exe executeRules --ruleFile=C:\Accounts\tools\DLM_rules\txMiddleware.dlm.xml --profile=test_txmiddle

The DLM is launched and the rules are executed trying to ignore the links, however the end of the execution says no links to ignore.
2016-01-05 11:37:41,942 [1] INFO DynamicLinks main - Saving changes…
2016-01-05 11:37:41,944 [1] INFO DynamicLinks main - Rule rule_row_ignore ignored 0 links out of 0
2016-01-05 11:37:41,944 [1] INFO DynamicLinks main - 0% of rules have been executed
2016-01-05 11:37:41,946 [1] INFO DynamicLinks main - Out of 0 links to be reviewed, 0 have been validated and 0 links have been ignored
2016-01-05 11:37:41,947 [1] INFO DynamicLinks main - 0 links are still to be reviewed

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Dynamic Link Manager - Fatal Error - An error occurred while reading from the store providers data reader

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When running the Dynamic Link Manager Command Line Interface (DLM CLI) to review links automatically, the following error is encountered: An error occurred while reading from the store provider’s data reader.

Shown below is the screenshot of the CLI being run and the error generated.

For assistance with using the DLM CLI to review links, please see the documentation for further information.

For 8.2, this can be found here: Dynamic Link Manager filter rules

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Extensions at Application Level - Security For Java

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides the approach to troubleshoot the issues that occur while Security For Java extension is running in Run Extensions at Application Level step

For more information, refer to Security for Java

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
1.6.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

There are several steps that are performed in Run extensions at application level for Security for Java extension, so first you will have to identify the step where the issue occurs. Following list has been created from issues that have already occurred and is not exhaustive of all steps.
1. If issue is happening before launching Java2CastIL.jar which is responsible for the creation of castil bytecode files this means that following information message is missing:
  Calling [‘C:\Program Files\CAST\8.3\jre\bin\java’, ‘-Xmx19G’, ‘-jar’, ‘C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\Extensions\com.castsoftware.securityforjava.1.6.4-funcrel\com\castsoftware\resources\Java2CastIL.jar’, ‘-g’, ‘1’, ‘-p’, ‘0’, ‘-c’, ‘S:\LISA\LISA\db86d52e77504e919e76ade2939b29e0\Scr1f97027e7f854325888b8ac670e1c9fc\project.xml’, ‘-d’, ‘S:\LISA\LISA\db86d52e77504e919e76ade2939b29e0\Scr1f97027e7f854325888b8ac670e1c9fc\’]
2. Then please do the following:
  1. Check if project.xml file is missing in the LISA subfolder. Each Java execution unit is using a different Java sub-folder (in the most common scenario there is a single execution unit) and the relevant sub-folder can be retrieved in the header of the J2EE analysis unit.
  2. If project.xml is missing, then this indicates that a problem in main JEE analysis has happened, since this file is created when JEE analysis is running with SecurityForJava extension:
    1. Retrieve JEE analysis log. This is not trivial and can be dependent on whether you run analysis/snapshot as 1 or 2 steps.
      1. Verify in analysis log the SecurityForJava extension is installed.
      2. If not, then the extension was not installed when analysis ran(as a separate step) and this is the explanation.
      3. Run full analysis/snapshot again
    2. Verify that SecurityForJava extension ran on top of Java extension
      1. Check for existence of following information messages
        *[com.castsoftware.securityforjava] LISA path : C:\CASTMS\Storage\LISA\a42646dc1f644bd7bdb8493bf59f1985\Scr5b62a77005fc44ad9d70a7ea2c3431e3*
        [com.castsoftware.securityforjava] Flat path : C:\Working_Directory\8.3.37_Build2813_flat_for_customer
        
        If they are missing this indicates a problem of AIP or Extension installation
        
        Reinstall AIP and all extension and if problem is reproduced go to last step
    3. Verify analysis log and that there was no warning, more specifically ‘hidden’ crashes that stopped analysis from finishing.
      1. If the main JEE analysis has not finished correctly and crashed before the creation of project.xml then the command line is not launched
      2. See more in CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Warnings - JEE with extension
3. If issue is happening after launching Java2Castil then depending on the version of SecurityForJava, the root cause may be visible in the log. Java2Castil also logs the process inside a subfolder in LISQ. For the example already given this subfolder would be
  S:\LISA\LISA\db86d52e77504e919e76ade2939b29e0\Scr1f97027e7f854325888b8ac670e1c9fc\Logs
  1. Open subfolder, inside it there are a Job_generation.log file and 1 or more Project.logfiles.
    1. Using a grep on all Project.log files verify that the following 2 lines are present
      INFO castil - Success to save generated code for: XA-SM0-WS_380dd915.castil in N:\CastWork\Storage\LISA_AM_83\LISA\2a22b876923e420f9367ad3d16ba3812\Scrddac897b95d440b18b375310e898cec7
      INFO castil - Success to create Assemblies.txt file in N:\CastWork\Storage\LISA_AM_83\LISA\2a22b876923e420f9367ad3d16ba3812\Scrddac897b95d440b18b375310e898cec7
    2. If not then then Project.log name and the referenced files in the log will help you identify the AU that causes the issue.
      1. Check the log for any fatal error/crash messages
      2. If you find message [main] ERROR com.castsoftware.castil.translation.Main - OUT OF MEMORY ERROR - CASTIL generation aborted
        
        Previous information log line inform on number of files parsed and mmeoty. Example:
        Parsed files: 6064 - Current: S:\SourceCodeDeploy\Batch\project\src\com\cast\cast\castsomething.java - Used RAM: 16,242,906,352 - Free RAM: 1,955,130,128
        
        Castil creation needs approximately 3.5MB/file. Java2CastIL.jaris launched with a memory argument that is dynamically calculated on the available memory at the time of launch
        
        Estimate needed memory in relation to the size of the application.
        
        If the needed memory for largest AU is lower then the available memory - 6GB then you need to add more memory. A WA can also be to split the largest AU in several smaller ones, though links can be affected by splitting
        
        Make sure that no other process is running in parallel and kill any process that is not needed.
        
        If memory issue is not explained by above, go to last step.
If the above steps do not solve your issue contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant input

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Extensions Before Application Level - Error - Highlight Analyzer requires at least Java JRE 11 or newer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The page helps you to resolve the error - “ERROR MODULMSG ; Body Java runtime found but Highlight Analyzer requires at least Java JRE 11 or newer.” when running analysis using AIP Console.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
V1	✅
V2	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS3	✅
CSS4	✅

Step by Step scenario

Install the application with Highlight to MRI Extension.
Add version using AIP Console
Initiate the Analysis.
Run extension before analysis step. Will show the error.

Error stack is shown below

CMS Snapshot analysis - Run Metrics Calculation - Crash

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot any crashes you may face while an analysis unit is running on Run Metrics Calculation step.

Below screen shot shows an example of a message that pops up when a crash occurs:

When you press “close the program” the below screen shot depicts the same:

For more information, refer to:

Official 8.3 Documentation - Run and validate the analysis

*Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Metrics Calculation - Performance issue - Run metrics Calculation step is hanging on a DDL file (SQL Analyzer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The purpose of this page is to explain how to deal with hanging issues when running the Metrics Calculation step on a DDL file, after a SQL Analyzer analysis

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run the Analysis (At application level or Analysis Unit Level)
After the Execution Unit has been analyzed, we note that the Run Metrics Calculation step never ends.

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot analysis - Run Metrics Calculation - Warnings - SQL with extension - The complexity of matching the regular expression exceeded predefined bounds

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will guide you to troubleshoot the below warning that may be encountered in the Run Metric Calculation log file

[MAv2] Computing metrics on C:\CASTMS\Deploy832AIP\SQLSCRIPT-267\SQL\wccpprddl.sql
The following error "The complexity of matching the regular expression exceeded predefined bounds. Try refactoring the regular expression to make each choice made by the state machine unambiguous. This exception is thrown to prevent "eternal" matches that take an indefinite period time to locate." occurred while searching a substring matching regular expression "SELECT.+FROM".

For more information, refer to

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Synchronize Assessment Model - Fatal Error - duplicate key value violates unique contraint dss_me_val_typ_pk

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help troubleshoot the following fatal error as shown in the screenshot below:

Or messages in the CAST-MS log that occur during the synchronize assessment model like the messages below:

ERR: 2018-10-09 02:57:15: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint “dss_me_val_typ_pk”
Detail: Key (metric_id, metric_value_index)=(1039020, 0) already exists.
com.castsoftware.java.ExternalException:ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint “dss_me_val_typ_pk”
Detail: Key (metric_id, metric_value_index)=(1039020, 0) already exists.
…
Connection Error: insert into .DSS_METRIC_VALUE_TYPES (METRIC_ID, METRIC_VALUE_INDEX, METRIC_VALUE_NAME, METRIC_VALUE_DESCRIPTION, METRIC_VALUE_PROCEDURE_NAME, METRIC_AGGREGATE_OPERATOR, METRIC_VALUE_PROCEDURE_NAME_2, METRIC_AGGREGATE_OPERATOR_2, METRIC_VALUE_TYPE) values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
com.castsoftware.java.InternalException:Connection Error: insert into .DSS_METRIC_VALUE_TYPES (METRIC_ID, METRIC_VALUE_INDEX, METRIC_VALUE_NAME, METRIC_VALUE_DESCRIPTION, METRIC_VALUE_PROCEDURE_NAME, METRIC_AGGREGATE_OPERATOR, METRIC_VALUE_PROCEDURE_NAME_2, METRIC_AGGREGATE_OPERATOR_2, METRIC_VALUE_TYPE) values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
…
INF: 2018-10-09 02:57:15: Task message: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint “dss_me_val_typ_pk”
Detail: Key (metric_id, metric_value_index)=(1039020, 0) already exists.
INF: 2018-10-09 02:57:15: No associated log file
INF: 2018-10-09 02:57:15: ending Task Synchronize Assessment Model in

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Synchronize services - Fatal Error - Could not save Application in Analysis Service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information regarding the following error that may come up on CMS Application while Synchronizing the application with the Knowledge base. Could not save Application “Application_name” in Analysis Service “LOCAL_NAME”

This happens when the Synchronize services option is used as shown below:

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Action Plan

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Synchronize services - Performance issue - Synchronize services takes long time and never ends

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Synchronize services and opening Analysis Manager from within CAST Management Studio takes a very long time. This issue has following symptoms
1. Synchronizing analysis services and opening Analysis Manager from within CAST Management Studio.
2. The Knowledge Base is hosted on CAST Storage Service.
3. The application is composed of several dozens of analysis jobs. This is typically the case when the application has been configured using the Source Discovery feature in CAST Management Studio

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Update Sources - Crash

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems when Update Sources step crashes.

A crash is an unexpected issue that stops the analysis.

In such a case, the analysis log file is not complete and does not contain any error explaining the reason for the crash, and the CAST AIP task window also gets stopped with an error message.

To get information about different log files, their locations and to understand and explore log files as per the feature,please refer to CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Update Sources - Fatal Error - column source id does not exist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information regarding a fatal error that comes up during Update Sources step while taking a snapshot.
The following message can be seen in the Cast-MS.log.txt

INF: 2017-11-07 14:34:10: 	[SQL] {? = call odh_local.DSSAPP_SOURCE_POS_UPDATE() }
INF: 2017-11-07 14:34:10: 	[SQL] 1: IO integer value
ERR: 2017-11-07 14:34:10: 	[SQL] ERROR: column "source_id" does not exist
 Where: PL/pgSQL function odh_local.dssapp_source_pos_update() line 13 at SQL statement

Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Update Sources - Performance issues - Unexpected runtime

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems when the Update Sources step is running for a long time.

To get information about different log files, their locations and to understand and explore log files as per the feature, please refer to CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

For more information, refer to:

Official 8.3 Documentation - Run and validate the analysis
CAST- MS help->How to -> Regular Audience ->Run Analysis only, Generate Snapshot
Information Guides > Information Guides by CAST AIP Component > CMS Snapshot Analysis

Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Update SQL XXL Tablesize - DB2 zos - The SQLTABLESIZE is not loaded

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides solution when the XXL Tables are not loaded when included during DB2 z/os analysis. The message in the GUI of CMS during Update SQL XXL Tablesize shows skipped : no Table Size data.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	✅ x < 1
8.0.x	✅ x < 3
7.3.x	✅ x <10

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Upload Snapshot to measurement base - Fatal Error - The program AAD consolidation tool has not ended correctly Error code 1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page troubleshoots problem when there is a Fatal Error - The program AAD consolidation tool has not ended correctly

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Compute Snapshot

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Find the actual error.
This is a general error on the GUI , open the AddCli-yyyymmddhhmmss.TXT log file to get the actual error -

CMS Technologies - Information - How to check whether a link has been created

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on how to check whether a link has been created.

For more information, refer to:

For 8.3: CMS - CAST Management Studio - How To
For 8.3 (KB Update Tool): Creating new links between existing unlinked objects using CI_LINKS
For 8.3 (Dependencies Tab): CMS - Dependencies tab (targets)

Applicable CAST Version, CAST Extension Version, CAST Component Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅
8.2	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Details

Configure a custom language display

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary: this page describes how to configure custom language display for CAST Imaging. This option does NOT update language found in your results data - only labels, buttons and other items in the UI are displayed in the chosen language.

Introduction

Out of the box, CAST Imaging offers two languages for the display of labels and other UI items via the Preferred Language option in the Preferences panel:

English (en_US) - default
Chinese (zh_CN)

Instructions below explain how to add your own custom language.

Configure AIP Node storage folder locations - optional - v. 1.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to configure the Node storage folder locations. This is an optional but recommended step in the installation configuration process.

Introduction

Each Node that is managed by Console requires a set of storage folders that are used to store items related to each Application onboarded and analyzed with the specific Node via the Console. Currently the following storage folders are required on each Node and they will be set to a default location as listed below.

Configure the Health Dashboard for large numbers of Applications

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes specific configuration options and best practices for one single instance of the Health Dashboard when you want to upload a large number of Applications (200+).

Introduction

The Health Dashboard (HD) is currently supported and tested for a use case of 200 applications maximum (see Standalone Health Dashboard deployment). For customers that have more than 200 applications to consolidate into the dashboard, this is page describes various good practices and configuration options that could help to reduce the risk of performance issues.

Configuring an external plugin to enrich the results for your Universal Analyzer language

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

If the language you are targeting in the Universal Analyzer has a complementary third party tool that can analyze source code and generate Quality Rule data, then you can integrate this tool into the Language Package as a “plugin” and execute it during the Universal Analyzer analysis. This section describes the process for configuring a plugin and how to integrate it into your language pack.

Introduction

Languages not already covered by CAST AI¨P (via a dedicated CAST Analyzer) can be analyzed using the Universal Analyzer and a custom Language Package specifically for your language. If the technology that you are targeting has a third party tool or application that can provide Quality Rule data as a complement to the source code analysis data generated during the analysis, then you can integrate this tool into the Language Package as a “plugin” and automate its execution. The tool(s) in the plugin will be executed after the analysis (if a snapshot is generated, which includes an analysis, then the plugin will be executed after the analysis) and data will be displayed in the Engineering Dashboard/Health Dashboard as with any other language supported as standard by CAST AIP.

Configuring Apache Tomcat to use secure https protocol

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page explains how to modify your Apache Tomcat application server to enable the use of the https protocol.

Introduction

When installed “out of the box”, the Apache Tomcat application server will be configured to use the “http” protocol on port 8080, as shown in the following extract from the CATALINA_HOME\conf\server.xml file:

 <!-- A "Connector" represents an endpoint by which requests are received
 and responses are returned. Documentation at :
 Java HTTP Connector: /docs/config/http.html (blocking & non-blocking)
 Java AJP Connector: /docs/config/ajp.html
 APR (HTTP/AJP) Connector: /docs/apr.html
 Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080
 -->

 <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
 connectionTimeout="20000"
 redirectPort="8443" />

 <!-- A "Connector" using the shared thread pool-->
 <!--
 <Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool"
 port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
 connectionTimeout="20000"
 redirectPort="8443" />
 -->

If your organization requires the use of the “https” protocol on port 443 (or another port) when interacting with the CAST dashboards, then there are various steps that need to be completed with regard to the Apache Tomcat installation. You can find out more information about the changes that are required by following the official Apache Tomcat documentation here: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/ssl-howto.html.

Configuring Neo4j buffer size

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

In some situations you may face an error when attempting to import applications into CAST Imaging (see Export and import the Application data) as follows:

ERROR Import: error while importing objects, aborting import error=objects: failed to run queries to import objects: run: error running Creation of Object to Property Links cypher for APPLICATION_NAME:

exec: unable to run cypher query: Neo4jError: Neo.DatabaseError.Statement.ExecutionFailed (Tried to read a field larger than buffer size 10000000.

A common cause of this is that a field has an unterminated quote and so will try to seek until the next quote, which ever line it may be on. This should not happen if multi-line fields are disabled, given that the fields contains no new-line characters. This field started at /var/lib/neo4j/import/csv/neo4j/APPLICATION_NAME_is_cfg_object_properties.csv:6891)

This error indicates that a property in the exported data has exceeded the default Neo4j maximum of 10MB - and that the application data failed to be imported correctly.

Configuring source code delivery for .NET

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Prepare the application source code

AIP Console expects the application source code to be delivered either via a ZIP file or via a **source code located in a folder**configured in AIP Console. Whichever option you chose, you should include in the ZIP/source code folder all of your .NET application source code. CAST highly recommends placing all the relevant files in a folder and using sub-folders where necessary. You can deliver other technologies at the same time (for example, database DDL). If you are using a ZIP/archive file, zip the folders in the “temp” folder as shown in the image below - but do not zip the “temp” folder itself, nor create any intermediary folders:

Configuring source code delivery for JEE without .pom file or .project file for CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

When adding a new version to analyze an Application that includes JEE based source code and this source code does not contain a .pom or .project file, C onsole will behave as follows:

Info

Behaviour in Console ≥ 2.3

Console will automatically install the

JEE File Discoverer whenever a .java file is encountered in your delivered source code. This extension will ensure that the required Analysis Units are created for your source code and that an analysis can proceed without issue.

Console V2 Migration Tool - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.0.5-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
40751	Fixes an issue where the step actioning the backup of H2 database was failing with the error “Exception in thread “main” org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLFeatureNotSupportedException: Feature not supported: “SCRIPT SIMPLE COLUMNS TO”. This fix involves the bundling of Java JRE 11 with the tool (previously the tool relied on the tool installed on the Node).

1.0.4-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-13690	The behaviour of the migration tool has been modified: any Snapshot Strategy retention settings configured in Console V1 will no longer be transferred to Console V2. These settings will need to be reconfigured in Console V2.

1.0.3-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Migration from 1.29.0 to 2.5.1	A change has been implemented to support application migration from 1.29.0 to 2.5.1.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-13261	Fixes an issue where the application migration failed with the error “null value in Column created_date violates not-null constraint”.

1.0.2-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
38112	Fixes an error that occurred during the migration “Error relation: aip_node_v1.ARCHITECTURE_CHECKER_MODEL doesn’t exist”.
38050	Fixes an issue where a white space in the path for the –h2dbfile parameter causes the error “Feature not supported”.

1.0.1-funcrel

New Features

Summary	Details
WEBI-12905	Fixes an issue related to Console Migration tool - backup Management tables before migrating Configuration DB. Take a backup of the tables that will be updated so that in case of an issue user can revert.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-12922	Console Migration tool - Could not find or load main class PRODUCT\Migration. When the migration tool was installed in folder name with blank space, following error was displayed: Could not find or load main class PRODUCT\Migration.
WEBI-12852	Console Migration tool - Zip creation fail - the process migration shoud not stop. During migration process, in the step where files in Console 1 is failing, it should not abort the migration. It should continue the process and it must report that the zip process has failed, and then describe what must be copied manually.

1.0.0-funcrel

Note

This is the first release of the Console V2 Migration Tool. This is a command line based tool (Console-V2-Migration.exe) that will migrate ALL applications managed in Console V1 into Console V2. Documentation is provided here: https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DOCCOMConsole+V2+Migration+Tool+-+1.0.

Creating a CAST Support Tool export for CAST Support

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes the how to create a CAST Support Tool (also known as Sherlock) export if requested to by CAST Support.

Note

Note that a CAST Support Tool export can take some time to process - in addition it will not be possible to run any jobs in Console when the export is initiated so you should plan the export with this in mind.

Prerequisites


✅	Ensure that your Application already exists.
✅	Ensure that you are logged in as a user with the Admin role.

Process

Creating a new custom component

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes how to create a new custom component. Please note that it is not possible to create custom components to interact with the CAST Management Studio installation packs: PMC, PMC_LOCAL, CORE_PMC and PMC_CENTRAL.

Define the .pck file for the component

CAST recommends naming the .pck file with the same name as defined in the “PackName” attribute in the .pck file and with a CUST_ prefix. So for example:

CSS Tools - Backup - Check The Logfiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face while running the CSS tools for backup (cssbackup or pg_dump).

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation:

Official documentation - CAST Storage Service - Maintenance activities
Online-help - pgadmin: Help->Help Contents, then enter keyword ‘Backup’

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

When using cssbackup or pg_dump,

Check the logfiles to see the messages and possible errors that might have been generated during running these utilities.
CAST prefers that you use the cssbackup for backup operations, if possible. For information on the logs, please see the CSSTools component log page here: Cast Management Studio - Information - How to find logs. For pg_dump, you maybe running this in one of two modes.
If you run a backup operation from the pgadmin GUI, you’ll be effectively using pg_dump and a log window tab will be available showing any messages or errors you may receive while performing this operation. You can see more on this in the on-line help for pgadmin as mentioned above.
You may also be running pg_dump from a command line which will produce any messages and errors to standard error. Please see the Postgres documentation for your Postgres version for detailed information on using pg_dump from a command line.
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, contact CAST Technical Support with the below relevant input.

Relevant input

Sherlock (CAST Support Tool (CST) - alias Sherlock) : This will provide us the logs and the bases to understand the environment and the information about the problem.
Source Code : Required to reproduce the problem on our side to investigate further.
Explanation about the problem and supporting screenshots

Notes/comments

CSS Tools - Backup - Fatal Error - character 0xe28099 of encoding UTF8 has no equivalent in LATIN1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

Using CSSBackup, the process fails with the error below :

[XMLtoDB] SQL Error: ERROR: character 0xe28099 of encoding “UTF8” has no equivalent in “LATIN1” (Severity 1, Msg# 1).

The wrong character number can change.

The error is due to a UTF8 Character entered as a comment of a violation that was marked for ‘Exclusion’.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

Remove using the query below the non ascii characters and replace it with a ?

CSS Tools - Optimize - Updating the statistics - using Cssoptimize exe on a schema

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page outlines the command line to update statistics on any CSS schema.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

CSS1

CssOptimize.exe -host localhost -password CastAIP -log <log location> -schema <schema_name>

CSS2

CSSOptimize.exe -host localhost -port 2280 -user operator -password CastAIP -log <log location> -schema <schema_name>

CSS Tools - Restore - Check The Logfiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face while running the CSS tools for backup (cssbackup or pg_dump). Any problem you face while running the CSS tools for backup will be dealt in this space.

When using cssrestore or pg_dump, check the logfiles to see the messages and possible errors that might have been generated during running these utilities.

CAST prefers that you use the cssrestore for backup operations, if possible.

CSS Tools - Restore - Error - Could not execute query ERROR out of memory

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides the information for restoring the CSS2 base if you are getting “out of memory” in the restore log.

Below is the error from the restore log:

pg_restore: creating INDEX idx_dssposobj
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 98590; 1259912714 INDEX idx_dssposobj operator
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: out of memory
DETAIL: Failed on request of size 100663296.

Command was: CREATE INDEX idx_dssposobj ON dss_positions USING btree (objectid);

CSS Tools - Restore - Non Fatal Error - The input file seems to be a backup in text format

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page explains how to deal with the following error during restoration. This error is a result of the backup format being a postgres text backup:

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

When you are facing such issue,

Run the following restore command line :

C:\Program Files\CAST\CASTStorageService2\bin>psql.exe -h -p 2280 -d postgres -f “M:<YOUR_BACKUP_NAME>” -L “M:\YOUR_BACKUP_NAME.restore.log” -U operator

CSS3 vs CSS4 - what are the benefits of upgrading

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

End of Life Notice

Info

Summary: documentation about the benefits of upgrading to CAST Storage Service 4, from CAST Storage Service 3.

Introduction

CAST Storage Service (CSS) 3 is a re-packaged PostgreSQL 9.6.11, while CAST Storage Service 4 uses PostgreSQL 13. Since the EOL for PostgreSQL 9.6.x is scheduled for November 2021, CAST would encourage you to upgrade your instance wherever possible. Over and above the benefits of using a PostgreSQL release that is not due to go EOL until November 2025, the improvements added to PostgreSQL between 9.6 and 13 are worth highlighting - these improvements also provide better performance for use with CAST AIP. The major benefits are listed below.

Dashboard Service Partitioner - Release Notes - 1.1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.1.0-funcrel

Note

First release of the extension.

Dashboard Service Partitioner - Release Notes - 1.2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.2.0-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
40603	Fixes an issue causing snapshot generation to fail with the error “no partition of relation “xxx” found for row”.

Dashboard Service Partitioner - Release Notes - 1.3

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.3.0-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
-	Fix High and Critical CVEs found in code.

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Data authorization - 2.x and above

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes how to configure data authorization in **≥**2.x.

How are data authorizations managed in ≥ 2.x?

Data authorization is managed in a graphical user interface. This interface is available to users that have been assigned the **ADMIN role**and can be accessed by clicking the User Configuration option in the user menu:

The interface is then displayed. There are two tabs that are relevant for data authorizations: Profiles and Users: by default the Profiles tab is displayed:

Defining a new language

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Defining a new language is necessary if you want to use the Universal Analyzer to directly analyze source code, or you want to use the Universal Importer tool to import data generated by an external analyzer. The first step involves defining the language and then the objects that form the language you want to analyze. This is done by editing the xxxMetaModel.xml file in your package.

Info

Please note the following rules pertaining to the naming of types and categories in your xxxMetaModel.xml file:

Delete an Application via CLI

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This page describes the CLI (Command Line Interface) option that is available to fully delete an Application from Console.

Note

This documentation is valid only for Console 1.x.

What does the CLI option do?

This CLI option will fully delete an Application from Console (this option is also available in the Console GUI). It is generally only necessary to use the CLI option if you have attempted to delete an Application in the GUI and this has failed. The CLI option will then attempt to fully remove all trace of the Application from Console for example:

Delivery Folder Migration Tool - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.0.6-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
AIPCORE-4322	Updated Postgres JDBC Driver to the (recent) version: 42.4.1

1.0.5-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-12116	The PostgreSQL driver has been upgraded to 42.2.25.
WEBI-00000	Update Log4j jars to 2.17.1 to fix two Apache Log4j vulnerabilities CVE-2021-44228 (see https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/CAST/Apache+Log4j+-+CVE-2021-44228 and https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228) and CVE-2021-45046 (see https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45046).

1.0.4-funcrel

Note

This release specifically fixes two Apache Log4j vulnerabilities CVE-2021-44228 (see https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/CAST/Apache+Log4j+-+CVE-2021-44228 and https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228) and CVE-2021-45046 (see https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45046).

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-11383	Upgrade Apache Log4j to v. 2.16 to resolve CVE-2021-44228 (see https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/CAST/Apache+Log4j+-+CVE-2021-44228 and https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228) and CVE-2021-45046 (see https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45046).

1.0.3-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
WEBI-10039	Delivery folder migration failed with “Error is: Unrecognized character escape ‘{’.” This bug has been fixed.

1.0.2-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
AIPCORE-2821	Update embedded PostgreSQL JDBC Driver to a more recent release: 4.2.18.

1.0.1-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
25762	Delivery folder migration for applications name having escape character (Ex: P&CM_ENT). The application name provided in config.json while migration and import application should be same as in index.xml file

1.0.0-funcrel

Note

Release 1.0.0-funcrel is identical to the tool delivered in AIP Console 1.18.

Delivery folder split

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This step describes the process of splitting the Delivery folder when upgrading Console/Node packages to v. ≥ 1.13 from an older release.

Note

If you are already using Console/Node v. ≥ 1.13, then please skip this step.

Introduction

In Console 1.13the format of the Delivery folder assigned to each Node was changed so that each Application now has its own dedicated Delivery folder within the parent Delivery folder (previously, the parent Delivery folder was global to all Applications).

Delivery folder split

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This step describes the process of splitting the Delivery folder when upgrading AIP Console/AIP Node packages to v. ≥ 1.13.

Note

This step is only required when upgrading the AIP Console/AIP Node packages to v. ≥ 1.13. If you are already using AIP Console/AIP Node v. ≥ 1.13, then please skip this step.

Introduction

In AIP Console 1.13the format of the Delivery folder assigned to each AIP Node was changed so that each Application now has its own dedicated Delivery folder within the parent Delivery folder (previously, the parent Delivery folder was global to all Applications).

Delivery Manager Tool - Add package - PeopleSoft - Unable to find the vendor Peoplesoft in the list of vendor specific repository

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

After copying the contents of folder ToBeInstalledInSCDFPlugins to the <Delivery_folder>\plugins folder, Peoplesoft is not present in the list of vendor specific repository as shown below

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step Scenario

Install the PeopleSoft Language Pack 5.0 version
Copy the contents of folder ToBeInstalledInSCDFPlugins to the <Delivery_folder>\plugins folder
launch the DMT
Try to add package and see that Peoplesoft is missing from the list of vendor specific repository

Action Plan

Delivery Manager Tool - Discovery - Error - Duplicate Project null at path

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When using the Delivery Manager Tool (DMT), an error is encountered that says:

Duplicate Project: null at path
Invalid Project discarded

As shown in the below screenshot (this screenshot is from the project discovery logs generated during the DMT process - please see CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs for more information on how to find this log):

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	❓
8.0.x	❓
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Delivery Manager Tool - Discovery - Warning - The analysis of POM file has failed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to the WARNING Messages The analysis of POM file /pom.xml has failed occurring during the Project Discovery :

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x x<2	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

In the discovery log file, select the warning message, and display the detail of the warning message by enabling the Show Details option as below screenshot, in order to see the stack trace if any:

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - CVS - Access is denied

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When trying to use the Delivery Manager Tool (DMT) extension for CVS, the following error like the one below is encountered in the extraction log indicating an access issue:

org.netbeans.lib.cvsclient.response.ResponseException:Q:\data{55cac91b-829b-4915-a61e-081dc87b81f6}{c13e98d1-edb2-4380-993b-fe45be2b5978}{b8780811-4609-4f50-a95e-9da3d8d979ec}\tmp\volatile\content\1<application path>\CVS\cvsPostConversion941791585429669057tmp (Access is denied)

For more information on finding and opening the extraction logs, please see the page: CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - DB2 zOS - java.io.FileNotFoundExcept while choosing schema to extract

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

Error encountered in DMT, after selecting manifest file and when we try to choose schema to extract.
Option used is : CAST extractor output for DB2 zOS

Error during parsing of schema file list : D:\DEF.DBASE
java.io.FileNotFoundExcept: D:...\DEF.DBASE
The system cannot find the file specified

This error can be seen in the extraction log. To see the log location, refer the section Possible location for logs of the page : CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - HTTP Maven Repository - Connection Exception 400 - Bad Request

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides assistance when receiving the error message ‘Connection Exception: 400 - Bad Request’ when packaging an HTTP Maven Repository. The error can be seen in the screenshot of the package extraction log as shown below:

Figure 1

For assistance with finding logs, please see the page: CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

For assistance with the HTTP Maven Repository extension, please see the page: JEE Maven Http Extractor

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - Java - Could not create Java Virtual Machine

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When trying to connect to a database with the Delivery Manager Tool to do a package extraction, if you do not have enough free memory, you will see the following errors as shown in the log screenshot below:

Could not create Java Virtual Machine

Could not reserve enough space for object heap

A fatal exception has occurred

Error Running Cast Database Extractor!

The Packaging in the Delivery has not been fully completed

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - Nuget Repository - URI has an authority component

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to solve the incident when you may get an error message ‘java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:URI has an authority component’ while packaging the Nuget Repository.

The error is seen in the package extraction log as shown below:

2021-06-21 10:47:23.340 ERROR cast.commandLine.exceptionDuringProcess An error has occurred during command processing
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:URI has an authority component
at java.io.File.(File.java:423)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.dotnet.nuget.utility.NugetFilesCheck.getMDAFileClassPath(NugetFilesCheck.java:43)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.dotnet.nuget.utility.NugetFilesCheck.getNugetFolder(NugetFilesCheck.java:21)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.dotnet.nuget.NugetExtractor.connect(NugetExtractor.java:114)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.execute(ExtractionEngine.java:602)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.extract(ExtractionEngine.java:658)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.processDMTCommand(Extract.java:81)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.cli.AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.process(AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.java:290)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1324)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1305)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:386)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.parseAndRun(CommandLineApplication.java:1383)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.access$100(CommandLineApplication.java:37)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1183)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1176)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:386)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.launch(CommandLineApplication.java:1175)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1107)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1100)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:415)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.run(CommandLineApplication.java:1099)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.main(Extract.java:160)

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - Oracle Forms - java lang UnsatisfiedLinkError

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page would help to deal with the above error occurred when packaging the forms using the DMT.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step Scenario

Try extracting the forms as explained in the following documentation http://doc.castsoftware.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2F73x%2FAdd-a-database-package-for-a-live-target-database_568426720.html
DMT fails with the error java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:\BIN\frmjapi.dll: Can’t load IA 32.bit.dll on AMD 64-bit platform

Action Plan

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - PeopleSoft - Extraction error ORA-00903 invalid table name

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When doing an extraction of PeopleSoft source code, in the extraction log, you observe many errors like:

MESSAGE*M2015-08-17 12:58:22.108 - Extraction error: ORA-00903: invalid table name

cast.dmt.extractor.squirrel.processOutput*MESSAGE**2015-08-17 12:58:09.840 - null Line 176: from null.PSPCMNAME

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step Scenario

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - PLI - The packaging in the Delivery has not been fully completed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to troubleshoot issues you may face during the extraction of PLI technology.

Figure 1

In the Extraction log file :

ERROR	The packaging in the Delivery has not been fully completed.\r\n Please use the 'Manage the delivery' option to check the status of the Delivery. The packaging must be successful and up-to-date before the Delivery can be accepted
	com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - SQL- PSM UDB - ByteTocharConverter caused by java lang NoClassDefFoundError

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides solution to the error " java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:sun/io/ByteTocharConverter Caused by :java.lang.ClassNotFoundException" which is encountered while choosing schema under Schema to extract or during the DB2 UDB Extraction step if the schema to extract has been added manually.

The complete stack is as shown below :

An error has occurred during command processing

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:sun/io/ByteToCharConverter
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.b.r.a(r.java:159)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.d.a(d.java:1009)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.a(db.java:1723)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.a(db.java:1651)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.n(db.java:570)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.j(db.java:257)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.c(db.java:57)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.r.c(r.java:42)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.sb.h(sb.java:169)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.b.zc.p(zc.java:1223)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.b.zc.a(zc.java:1859)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.b.zc.a(zc.java:497)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.b.zc.executeQuery(zc.java:481)
at com.castsoftware.connection.JdbcConnection.executeQuery(JdbcConnection.java:817)
…
Caused by java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:sun.io.ByteToCharConverter
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(:0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(:0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(:0)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.b.r.a(r.java:159)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.d.a(d.java:1009)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.a(db.java:1723)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.a(db.java:1651)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.n(db.java:570)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.j(db.java:257)
at com.ibm.db2.jcc.a.db.c(db.java:57)

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - SQL-PLSQL - com castsoftware util logger exceptions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provide solution to the error mentioned below which is encountered while running extraction
com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException:
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:-2)

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step Scenario

Run extraction in DMT using .castextraction file
Error in the log :

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - SQL-T-SQL MS - Error 2000 - Error running CAST database extractor - Unknown platform null

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides solution to the error (mentioned below) encountered while running SQL Server extraction.

Unknown platform:null
DETAIL   Error: 2000
ERROR   Error running CAST database extractor!
ERROR   An exception has occurred during source package file creation
    com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException:
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(:0)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(:0)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(:0)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(:0)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(:0)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException.newInstance(LogException.java:75)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.createErrorException(Logging.java:1021)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.error(Logging.java:1052)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.squirrel.SquirrelExtractor.generateSquirrelSchemaList(SquirrelExtractor.java:190)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.squirrel.SquirrelExtractor.getExistingSchemas(SquirrelExtractor.java:385)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.squirrel.SquirrelExtractor.getNotExistingSchemas(SquirrelExtractor.java:321)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.AbstractDatabaseExtractor.extract(AbstractDatabaseExtractor.java:148)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.extractInternal(ExtractionEngine.java:639)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.access$15(ExtractionEngine.java:620)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine$1.run(ExtractionEngine.java:614)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine$1.run(ExtractionEngine.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.execute(ExtractionEngine.java:569)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.extract(ExtractionEngine.java:609)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.processDMTCommand(Extract.java:62)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.cli.AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.process(AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.java:322)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1015)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:354)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.parseAndRun(CommandLineApplication.java:1069)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.access$0(CommandLineApplication.java:924)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:907)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:354)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.launch(CommandLineApplication.java:901)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:847)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:383)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.run(CommandLineApplication.java:841)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.main(Extract.java:74)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(:0)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(:0)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(:0)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(:0)
        at com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.executeMain(JarBootstrap.java:529)
        at com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.main(JarBootstrap.java:755)
ERROR   An error has occurred during command processing
    com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException:
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(:0)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(:0)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(:0)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(:0)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(:0)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException.newInstance(LogException.java:75)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException.newInstance(LogException.java:114)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.createErrorException(Logging.java:1024)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.error(Logging.java:1216)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.extractInternal(ExtractionEngine.java:648)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.access$15(ExtractionEngine.java:620)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine$1.run(ExtractionEngine.java:614)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine$1.run(ExtractionEngine.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.execute(ExtractionEngine.java:569)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.extract(ExtractionEngine.java:609)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.processDMTCommand(Extract.java:62)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.cli.AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.process(AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.java:322)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1015)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:354)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.parseAndRun(CommandLineApplication.java:1069)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.access$0(CommandLineApplication.java:924)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:907)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:354)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.launch(CommandLineApplication.java:901)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:847)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:383)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.run(CommandLineApplication.java:841)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.main(Extract.java:74)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(:0)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(:0)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(:0)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(:0)
        at com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.executeMain(JarBootstrap.java:529)
        at com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.main(JarBootstrap.java:755)
    Caused by    com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException:
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(:0)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(:0)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(:0)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(:0)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(:0)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.LogException.newInstance(LogException.java:75)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.createErrorException(Logging.java:1021)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.error(Logging.java:1052)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.squirrel.SquirrelExtractor.generateSquirrelSchemaList(SquirrelExtractor.java:190)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.squirrel.SquirrelExtractor.getExistingSchemas(SquirrelExtractor.java:385)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.squirrel.SquirrelExtractor.getNotExistingSchemas(SquirrelExtractor.java:321)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.AbstractDatabaseExtractor.extract(AbstractDatabaseExtractor.java:148)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.extractInternal(ExtractionEngine.java:639)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.access$15(ExtractionEngine.java:620)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine$1.run(ExtractionEngine.java:614)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine$1.run(ExtractionEngine.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.execute(ExtractionEngine.java:569)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.ExtractionEngine.extract(ExtractionEngine.java:609)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.processDMTCommand(Extract.java:62)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.cli.AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.process(AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.java:322)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1015)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:354)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.parseAndRun(CommandLineApplication.java:1069)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.access$0(CommandLineApplication.java:924)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:907)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:354)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.launch(CommandLineApplication.java:901)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:847)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:491)
        at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:383)
        at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.run(CommandLineApplication.java:841)
        at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.main(Extract.java:74)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(:0)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(:0)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(:0)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(:0)
        at com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.executeMain(JarBootstrap.java:529)
        at com.castsoftware.bootstrap.JarBootstrap.main(JarBootstrap.java:755)

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - SVN - failed to explore SVN path - Second Version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This guide would help you to solve the " failed to explore SVN path " while trying to scan the code on the SVN

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step Scenario

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Fatal Error - TFS - Credentials not stored on local after Delivery

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the issue encountered when we try to configure our credentials to connect to the server for extraction on DMT.
The below image shows the option where we configure the credentials for Team Foundation Server.

The issue is encountered when we try to save the password on the local for more than one application delivered through the same DMT.
The scenario is as follows where we try to deliver Application 1 and Application using the same DMT:

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - GIT - Fatal Error - Network transport exception occurred while operating on remote GIT repository

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to troubleshoot GIT extraction failing with the below error :

ERROR Network transport exception occurred while operating on remote GIT repository. Please check remote URL string and try again: https://xxxxx/git/cap.
org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.TransportException:https://xxxxx/git/cap: cannot open git-upload-pack
at org.eclipse.jgit.api.FetchCommand.call(FetchCommand.java:139)
..
Caused by org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TransportException:https://xxxxx/git/cap: cannot open git-upload-pack
..
Caused by javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - INFO - HTTP Maven

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve Information message during Package extraction for HTTP Maven.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Action Plan

Select the message you are interested in :

Notes / Comments

Related Pages

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - INFO - Oracle Forms - 0 Forms modules loaded in 0 ms

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

Explanation,Impact and Resolution of message :

0 Forms modules loaded in 0 ms! Layer: 0 %TYPE% Start export on group: CAST_Forms_ObjectLibrary %TYPE% Stop export on group: CAST_Forms_ObjectLibrary Layer: 1 %TYPE% Start export on group: CAST_Forms_Module %TYPE% Stop export on group: CAST_Forms_Module %TYPE% Start export on group: CAST_Forms_ObjectLibraryTab %TYPE% Stop export on group: CAST_Forms_ObjectLibraryTab … CAST_Forms_ObjectGroup_Tab => 0 extracted! CAST_Forms_Package_Tab => 0 extracted! CAST_Forms_MenuModule => 0 extracted! CAST_Forms_RecordGroup_Tab => 0 extracted! CAST_Forms_Trigger => 0 extracted! …

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - INFO - Siebel - 0 objects extracted for each siebel object types

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for problems during extraction of Siebel Project sources where 0 objects are extracted for each siebel object types :

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step scenario

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Performance - Oracle - Extraction source code never completed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you troubleshoot the following problem for Oracle DB extraction, while extracting database DMT is running from long time and the extraction not getting completed.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Open DMT.
Do the extraction of Oracle DB.

Action Plan

This is a known issue, the Oracle extraction is so huge, that it will never finish. To unblock the situation

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Performance - Peoplesoft - Extraction gets hung or stuck

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides the solution when peoplesoft extraction gets hung or is stuck.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step scenario

Install Peoplesoft package
Launch DMT for extraction
Start Extraction and after few minutes, it gets stuck for more than 48 hours

Action Plan

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction - Warning - DOTNet - The DLL extractor has returned an not mapped error when extracting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When packaging assemblies, during the extraction, below warning messages are triggered :

WARNING The DLL extractor has returned an not mapped error when extracting \…\lib...\Newxxx.Json.dll

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Create a “.NET assemblies on your file system” package that points to the assemblies location.
Package the “.NET assemblies on your file system”.
Open the Extraction.castlog2 file

Action Plan

Delivery Manager Tool - Extraction Discovery - Error - Connection Exception 400 - Repository version policy RELEASE does not allow metadata in path maven-metadata xml

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When using the Delivery Manager Tool (DMT), an error is encountered during Extraction/Discovery step for Maven Repository and the Automatic Remediation goes in a loop:

Connection Exception: 400 - Repository version policy: RELEASE does not allow metadata in path: ../maven-metadata.xml"

As shown in the below screenshot (this screenshot is from the logs generated during the DMT process - please see CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs for more information on how to find this log):

Delivery Manager Tool - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

What are the impacts of killing the DMT process ?

There is no impact.
But if you kill the process during the extraction, it may lead to some issues .The issue is that you cannot not execute the extraction again (lock on some files).
Workaround: If you have several versions, is to clean the delivery folder :You need to keep the package folder, but you can remove all the files inside these folders.

List of return values in DMT CLI Java Code

Delivery Manager Tool - Information - DELIVERY Folder Structure and Contents - How to check the plugins installed in the Delivery folder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

The objective of this page is to give information how to check the plugins installed in the Delivery folder

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Details

Check in the CAST AIP Extensions > CAST AIP Extensions Documentation > CAST AIP Extensions, in the Release note of the Extension, check in the “CAST AIP compatibility” that the Extension version is supported by CAST AIP.

Delivery Manager Tool - Package - Automatic Remediation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page provides the approach to troubleshoot the issues encountered while Project Remediation phase of the package

When the Package action is used, CAST will scan the target source code and “discover” projects, files, folders, resources, and variables. If any of these items reference other items and the CAST Delivery Manager Tool is not able to locate these referenced items in the source package, then an alert is generated and displayed in the Package Content tab under the Package generation alerts section.
When an alert is generated as shown above, you can then create a corresponding remediation item to resolve the issue that caused the alert. For example, a missing project may in fact be located in a different source package. Creating a remediation item will “tell” the CAST Delivery Manager Tool where that project is actually located.

Delivery Manager Tool - Package - Validation - Alerts - ios

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When packaging an ios project, many alerts were seen for missing source file and folders as shown in the screenshot below:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

package an ios application
notice a large amount of alerts

Impact of the Problem

Delivery Manager Tool - Package - Validation - Alerts - J2EE - Eclipse - Undefined variable

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page explains how to solve the Undefined variable for J2EE Eclipse applications.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

In the package content tab, identify the path of the project. In the below example, the path is amisting/.project:
Go to the project path
Open the .classpath file
Inside the classpath file we can see that the variable that appears as undefined is defined in the classpath entry :
Search in your source where the jar files defined in the classpath entry are located (EXTERNAL_JARS/log_extract.jar as an example from the above screenshot).
Once found, in the package content remediate the undefined variable alert by giving the path of these jar files. In the current case the path is in R:/Sources/…/extlibs/src
Package again.
The undefined variable must not appear in the alerts again.
If the above steps do not help you, contact CAST Technical Support with the Relevant Input in order to reproduce the issue.

Notes/comments

Delivery Manager Tool - Package - Validation - Error - NullPointerException

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides assistance with solving the issue of a validation error of a NullPointerException during the Delivery Manager Tool process.

The DMT error may be " The program Validation has not ended correctly (2001)" shown in the screenshot below

The associated log file then may look like this:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x, x<13	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Delivery Manager Tool - Package Contents - Incomplete Package Contents - Files on your file system - J2EE - Web xml files are ignored

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

After package extraction in DMT,the web.xml files appear as ignored when seen in package content and are not defined in the analysis unit as indicated in the screenshot below.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step Scenario

Package the J2EE application in Delivery Manager Tool.
Check the Package content.
Web.xml files are ignored.

Action Plan

Delivery Manager Tool - Project Selection - Error - Java Heap Space

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page explains the reason for the “Java Heap Space” error in the selection phase of the packaging and the resolution.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step Scenario

Create application
Open DMT and create a package.
Observe that the packaging fails at the selection phase because of the memory.

Action Plan

Delivery Manager Tool - Refresh - Error - Invalid in-memory resource

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When trying to do a refresh with the Delivery Manager Tool, the error “Invalid in-memory resource” is encountered as shown in the screenshot below.

Figure 1

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation: 8.3 : DMT - Refresh

FYI - DMT refresh is only available when delivering with the AIC Portal and is not available when delivering with CAST-MS.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

Delivery Manager Tool - Source Code Scan - Error - java lang OutOfMemoryError GC overhead limit exceeded

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provide solution to the error : java lang OutOfMemoryError GC overhead limit exceeded

The error usually occurs because of memory problems.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	NA
Microsoft SQL Server	NA
CSS2	NA
CSS1	NA

Step by Step Scenario

Deploy CAST Security Dashboard using JAR file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes how to install and configure the Security Dashboard ≥ 2.5 in JARfile format (i.e. no web application server required).

Introduction

What is the JAR file format?

From release 2.5 onwards, CAST will deliver an executable JAR file for each CAST Dashboard, alongside the traditional WAR file that has always been delivered. The executable JAR file is a new method of deploying the CAST Dashboards based on Spring Boot and does not require a web application server (the application server is embedded in the JAR itself). In addition, the JAR file contains an interactive installer which will guide you through some of the deployment requirements. The aim of the JAR file releases is to simplify and speed up the deployment of the CAST Dashboards. The deployment and configuration of the Spring Boot based dashboards differs slightly to the steps required for traditional WAR file (see Deploy CAST Security Dashboard using WAR file).

Deployment considerations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information to help you plan your CAST AIP for Dashboards installation.

Typical communication between CAST components

Click to enlarge

Info

*Analysis Node = Server on which the AIP Node service and AIP Core are installed.

Deployment considerations for CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information to help you plan your AIP for Imaging installation.

Typical communication between CAST components

The following diagram shows the interaction between AIP Console and the main CAST Components. It also shows the flow from the source code delivery to the CAST Imaging data consumption:

Required components

Package/Component Description

CAST Imaging

CAST Imaging is the component used to display and investigate the analysis results:

This component can be installed on Windows (directly or via Docker) or Linux (via Docker).
Only one instance can be "fed" with analysis results.

AIP Core

AIP Core is the "backbone" analysis engine:

Deployment considerations for CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information to help you plan your AIP for Imaging installation.

Typical communication between CAST components

The following diagram shows the interaction between AIP Console and the main CAST Components. It also shows the flow from the source code delivery to the CAST Imaging data consumption:

Click to enlarge

Required components

Package/Component Description

CAST Imaging

CAST Imaging is the component used to display and investigate the analysis results:

This component can be installed on Windows (directly or via Docker) or Linux (via Docker).
Only one instance can be "fed" with analysis results.

AIP Core

AIP Core is the "backbone" analysis engine:

DMT - Add a new source code package

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Add a new source code package

Note that the Adding a new source code package is relevant regardless of which mode you are working in.

To add a new source code package:

In the Version page, click the button to add a new Source Code Package to your Version.
The Add Package wizard will then be displayed - this guides you through the package creation process:
First choose the type of source code you want to package and click the Next button.

DMT - Application page

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Application page

Note that the Application page is only visible if you are working with the DMT launched directly from the CAST AIC Portal.

The Application page enables you to manage all aspects of your Application. Applications are created in the CAST AIC Portal by the CAST AI Administrator.

Fields


Application name	Defines the name of your Application. It is not possible to change the name of an Application in the CAST Delivery Manager Tool - this can only be done by the CAST AI Administrator using the CAST Management Studio.
Application ID	A unique identification number for your Application. This ID is managed entirely by the CAST Management Studio and cannot be modified.

Versions section

This section lists any existing Versions that are assigned to the current Application, regardless of their status. It also enables you to add a new version and edit/remove an existing version.

DMT - CAST Delivery Manager Tool modes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST Delivery Manager Tool modes

The CAST Delivery Manager Tool functions in two modes:

As a standalone tool installed from the CAST AIC Portal
As an integrated tool accessed from the CAST Management Studio

The interface and some of the available options differ according to the mode that is in use. Where applicable, the help will indicate an option or screen that is not available in certain modes.

Below is a table that lists the primary use cases for each mode:

DMT - Discovery - how does it work?

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Discovery - how does it work?

Discovery is the second step in the Package action. Users of older versions of CAST will be familiar with the concept of Discovery, but for newcomers it can be described as follows:

Discovery is a process whereby the CAST Delivery Manager Tool will attempt to automatically identify projects (for example: an Eclipse Java project, or an SQL database) within your Source Package using a set of predefined rules. When the Package action is complete, you can view the projects that have been identified in the Package Content tab (in the List of projects that will be analyzed section).

Docker Installer - Release Notes - 2.20

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.20.10-funcrel

Note

An equivalent Docker Installer accompanies every release of CAST Imaging. This installer will automatically pull the current release Docker images in both fresh install and upgrade scenarios.

No changes in this release.

2.20.9-funcrel

Note

An equivalent Docker Installer accompanies every release of CAST Imaging. This installer will automatically pull the current release Docker images in both fresh install and upgrade scenarios.

No changes in this release.

2.20.8-funcrel

Note

An equivalent Docker Installer accompanies every release of CAST Imaging. This installer will automatically pull the current release Docker images in both fresh install and upgrade scenarios.

DOTNet - Information - How to check if Framework is installed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

How to check if Dot net Framework is installed

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Details

There are three easy ways to find out the version of .NET Framework installed in your system:

Using Windows Explorer
Using Registry Editor
Using Command Prompt

Using Windows Explorer:

All Microsoft .NET Framework versions are installed in following directory:

Download an extension using Console

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST Console has been designed to fully automate the management of extensions. You can find out more in Application - Extensions.

Click to enlarge

Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process using Java JAR installer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: describes how to deploy and configure CAST Dashboards embedded in the Console package using a JAR installerfile. This documentation is only valid for those using the following:

Console ≥ 2.3.0 in Enterprise mode via Java JAR installers
Console ≥ 2.4.0 in Standalone mode
Console ≥ 1.29

If you are using:

Console ≥ 2.x in Enterprise mode via Docker containers, embedded Dashboards are automatically configured and you do not need to follow these steps.
Console 2.x - 2.3 in Standalone mode, embedded Dashboards are installed using a ZIP file as explained in 2.x - Standalone mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end in standalone mode.
**Console **≤1.x , embedded Dashboards are installed using a ZIP or WAR file as explained in Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process using ZIP file and Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process using WAR file.

⚠ Warning: Java 17 is required when installing embedded CAST Dashboards (release 2.11.1-funcrel or later) provided with the CAST Console installer. CAST Dashboards release 2.11.1-funcrel is provided with CAST Console 2.7.1-funcrel and later.

Encrypting the LDAP account password

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

This information is valid only for ≥2.0.0-beta6 releases of CAST Imaging.

Info

Summary: this page describes how to encrypt the password required for the security.ldap.account.password parameter when LDAP authentication is used.

Introduction

When configuring CAST Imaging to use LDAP authentication, the parameter security.ldap.account.password must be populated with the LDAP service account password:

# -----------------------------
# Parameters for ldap mode
# -----------------------------
security.ldap.url=
security.ldap.account.dn=
security.ldap.account.password=
security.ldap.usersearch.base=
security.ldap.usersearch.filter=
security.ldap.groupsearch.base=
security.ldap.groupsearch.filter=
security.ldap.groupsearch.base.filter=

By default, this password is passed in clear text and this can represent a potential security risk. If your organization requires this password to beencrypted, you can use the following instructions to do so.

Engineering Dashboard - Action plan - Missing action plan items - Action Plan view is empty

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when the Action Plan view is empty:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take a snapshot
Open ED
Click on Action Plan tile

Action Plan

Check if the table VIEWER_ACTION_PLANS is not corrupted:
1. Check if the priority was entered from ED:

Engineering Dashboard - Action Plan Recommendation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This page provides information about the Action Plan Recommendationfeature.

Introduction

The Action Plan Recommendation is a feature designed to help you automatically build an Action Plan to improve the grade/score of a chosen Health Factor (Business Criteria). In short, for a given Health Factor, you can configure one of the “remediation targets” listed below and the Action Plan Recommendation will automatically suggest a list of violations to be added to the Action Plan for future correction. The correction of the suggested violations will match the desired remediation target when a new snapshot is generated and therefore improve the grade of the chosen Health Factor. Available remediation targets:

Engineering Dashboard - Advanced Search - Advanced Search is hanging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides assistance with the Advanced Search feature of the Engineering Dashboard (ED).

When Advanced Search hangs, the page may look like this with the violation search just hanging where the red box is located:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x, x>=3 with Dashboard package 1.7.0 or above	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Try to use Advanced Search
Search hangs

Action Plan

Engineering Dashboard - Application - Missing Application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page treats the issue of missing application from ED:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take a full snapshot
Deploy the ED WAR folder.
Open ED.

Action Plan

Check if the missing application have snapshots - SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on snapshots - How to get the ID and name of a snapshot for a given application

Engineering Dashboard - Connection - login - logout

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This page provides instructions for connecting to the Engineering Dashboard and the login and logout options.

Connecting to the Engineering Dashboard

To connect to the Engineering Dashboard, browse to the URL provided to you by your CAST Administrator. This will usually be in the following format:

http://<server>:[<port>]/CAST-Engineering

The login page will then be displayed:

Access from the AIP Console

Accessing the Engineering Dashboard from the AIP Console is simple - click the appropriate icon:

Engineering Dashboard - ED - Information - How to reproduce ED issues

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page lists the steps involved in Reproducing ED Issues.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action plan

To perform the below steps you will need the following Relevant input
Always use a CAST AIP setup installation. For reproducing issues, flat installation is not recommended because the analysis/snapshot may fail. This can be due to files that are missing in the flat installation.

Engineering Dashboard - Exclusion - Unable to add exclusion

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps to troubleshoot issues with Exclusion on ED. The view dedicated to Exclusion items :

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Deploy dashboard
Try to add exclusions

Action Plan

If you are unable to add exclusion items and getting the above error then please perform the below actions :

This issue is observed when deployed war has corruptions in it. This corruption might have occurred due to some network issue or memory issue while downloading/deploying the war.
So to resolve this issue please deploy a new war and configure the same. You can refer Deployment
If the above steps do not solve your issue contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant input

Engineering Dashboard - Login - Errors - DBMS connection has failed or all domains loading have been aborted

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the details about a known issue related to the configuration of Engineering Dashboard.

This issue in the configuration leads to an error that comes up on the login page of the ED and does not allow the user to login and work on ED.

Following is the screenshot of the error that comes up on the login page to make the issue more clear:

In the above screenshot, the error is clear and it appears on the login page of ED preventing the user to login and work on ED.

Engineering Dashboard - Objects - Missing Objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps to troubleshoot issues when objects are missing on ED

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check if the object is present in the Central Database by executing the below query -

select * from dss_object_info doi join dss_objects dos on doi.object_id = dos.object_id where doi.snapshot_id = <snapshot_id> and dos.object_full_name = ‘<object_full_name>’


 1. If the query does not return any row then the object is not present on the Central Database. Follow the user guide - [CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Missing objects](/export-v2/tg/technical-guides/technical-guides-by-cast-aip-component/cast-engineering-dashboard-component-ced/cast-engineering-dashboard-object/cast-engineering-dashboard-object-missing-objects/) to solve the problem.
 2. If the query returns rows then the object is present on the Central Database but not displayed on ED due to display issue, report your problem to [CAST Technical Support](https://help.castsoftware.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and provide the [Relevant input](/export-v2/tg/technical-guides/technical-guides-by-cast-aip-component/engineering-dashboard-component-ed/engineering-dashboard-objects/):
2. If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to [CAST Technical Support](https://help.castsoftware.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and provide the [Relevant input](/export-v2/tg/technical-guides/technical-guides-by-cast-aip-component/engineering-dashboard-component-ed/engineering-dashboard-objects/):

**For CAST Technical Support Only** - [Engineering Dashboard - ED - Information - How to reproduce ED issues](/export-v2/tg/information-guides/information-guides-by-cast-aip-component/engineering-dashboard-ed/engineering-dashboard-ed-information-how-to-reproduce-ed-issues/)

**Notes/comments**

**Related Pages**

Engineering Dashboard - Quality Rules - Mismatch in number of quality rule between ED and CMS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page handle the case when the Number of computed Quality rules from CMS summary and the the Number of computed Quality rules Quality Model tile is not the same.

Which means the total of CAST Quality Rules, Custom Quality Rules and Critical Quality Rules is not equal to the Number of computed Quality rules from CMS summary.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Engineering Dashboard - Report Generation - Miscellaneous report error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to resolve the issue you may encounter during generation of Miscellaneous report in dashboard as shown below:

Observed in Dashboard Package version

Release	Yes/No
1.x	✅
2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis+snapshot
Launch Dashboard
Try to generate Miscellaneous report from dashboard

Action Plan

If you come across the above error during the generation of Miscellaneous report in dashboard then, please perform the below actions:

Engineering Dashboard - Risk - Missing risk - Column risk has NA for all the objects in violation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to troubleshoot problem where NA is displayed for every object under the column Risk

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch ED
Select an application
Goto Quality Investigation View
Select a business criteria → Technical Criteria → Quality rule

Action Plan

Perform the below actions:

Check if the business criteria selected is TQI. If yes then this is expected behavior as per the explanation provided.

Engineering Dashboard - Search box - Search object - No results where found to match your search

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when the search box returns the message “No results where found to match your search” instead of the researched word

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Connect to ED
Search for an object

Action Plan

Check if the object is not missing from ED by referring to Engineering Dashboard - Objects - Missing Objects

Engineering Dashboard - Source code - Missing source code - For Visual Basic Objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to resolve the missing source code issue for Visual Basic technology objects in Dashboard.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis+snapshot
Launch Dashboard
Observe no source code displayed for VB objects

Action Plan

If you observe that source code is not displayed for VB objects in dashboard then please perform the below steps:

Engineering Dashboard - Startup - Dashboard fails to start due to error sorry too many clients already

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will guide you to solve the error “sorry, too many clients already” while starting engineering dashboard.

Error Log :

org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.log SQLException occurred while connecting to localhost:2284
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already

For more information refer to : Standalone Engineering Dashboard deployment

Applicable Platform

Dashboard Version	Yes/No
Dashboards v1	✅
Dashboards v2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Deploy dashboard WAR or JAR file by following the steps in the link Standalone Engineering Dashboard deployment
Configure deployed WAR or JAR as per Standalone Engineering Dashboard deployment using WAR file#ForCASTDashboards2.x
Restart Dashboards
Observe below error from restapi.log

org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.log SQLException occurred while connecting to localhost:2284
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already

Action Plan

Engineering Dashboard - Tiles - Empty tiles - Application components tile is empty

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when Application components tile is empty

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take a full snapshot
Open ED

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Check if there is a corruption in the table dss_tree_ranking2 Corruption due to duplicates in the dss_tree_ranking2 table
1. If you get duplicated rows then as a workaround you can run the following queries on your central base the proceed as follow:

Engineering Dashboard - Transactions - Impacted transaction list is empty

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to understand the issue where Impacted transaction list is empty with TQI filter in Dashboard as shown below:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Deploy and configure ED
Navigate to Transaction view
Select any transaction with TQI filter and observe Impacted transaction list is empty

Action Plan

If you observe that Impacted Transaction list is empty in dashboard when you filter on TQI then, please check the below points:

Engineering Dashboard - Views - Errors - Dashboard redirects with SAML

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps with the issue where the Engineering Dashboard (ED) redirects to another page, usually the AED main page, after a short period of browsing.

This page is specifically for cases dealing with this redirection when SAML is configured as the authentication mode.

For more information on setting up the ED for SAML, please see this page: User authentication

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

Engineering Dashboard - Views - Exporting data to Microsoft Excel file format - Missing Data

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps to troubleshoot issues when the Downloaded Data is missing from the Excel file file but is present on the view

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Open ED
Navigate to a view
Export data to Microsoft Excel file format
Open the Downloaded Excel file

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Activate SQL Traces by following the page Health Dashboard - Information - How to activate SQL traces on AAD and RestAPI logs, then Identify the query involved in the display of the view and the query involved in the Export data to Microsoft Excel file format

Engineering Dashboard - Violations - False or no violations - no violation is found for an object in Application component tile while this object is in violation from other tiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case where no violation is found for an object in Application component tile while this object is in violation from other tiles.

For example an object is part of top riskiest component tile:

While no violation is found for this object in Application component tile:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

ENL - About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

About

CAST provides an About dialog box that displays technical information about:

the application module name, together with its current version and build number
the addresses and contact details of the main CAST Offices
the connectivity layer in use
the machine identification number
the host name

Report button

Clicking the Report button will display a further dialog box providing much more detailed technical information (known as the CAST Diagnostic Report). This can be particularly useful if you need to troubleshoot or debug with CAST.

ENL - Add Linked Objects dialog box

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Add Linked Objects dialog box

The Add Linked Objects dialog box helps to narrow down the type of dependent objects that you want to add to the view. In essence, it enables you to create a filter to reduce search time and increase performance by excluding from or including in certain items.

Selection

Profile

This option enables you to load a pre-defined filter profile. The idea behind this function is to let you save filter profiles that you use often, thus allowing you to avoid entering the same filter parameters each time you add linked objects to your Graphical View. For example, you could save a profile that displays only objects that are of type Table, and Call your object or objects.

If you want to create a new filter profile, you need to use the Profile Manager, this cannot be done from the Add Linked Objects dialog box.

ENL - Adding a decorative User File

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adding a decorative User File

CAST defines a decorative user file as any type of file located on your hard drive or on a network drive. Whether it be a Word document that provides an overview of the project lifecycle or other important information that pertains to the view you have created, you can use this option to add this type of file to the Graphical View:

Click the button located on the toolbar (you are now working in User File mode).
Left click in the Graphical View where you want to place the file.
A standard Windows Open File dialog box will then be launched enabling you to search for the file you require.
Click Open when you have found the file - it will then be placed in the Graphical View.

Notes

ENL - Adding Layers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adding Layers

To add Layers for your own use:

From the shortcut menu:

Right-click in the Layers window.
Select Create Layer from the shortcut menu - the Layer Properties dialog box will launch.
Rename the Layer as appropriate and select the required options.
Click OK to confirm.

Notes

If the Layers window is not visible, click View > Layer to display it.
All new Layers will be named “New Layer”. This can be changed during creation of the layer, or at a later date using the Layer Properties dialog box.
You cannot name a layer with the same name as the name of a layer that already exists.

ENL - Application Settings tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Application Settings tab

Tools > Options > Application Settings

This page provides an explanation of the various options that can be set to optimize and modify the behavior of the workspace in Enlighten.

The workspace feature in Enlighten is very simple, yet can be highly practical. When this option is activated on closing, Enlighten will save all settings and currently open saved views. The next time you open Enlighten, you will prompted to choose whether you want to restore the saved workspace and all saved views and associated Object Browsers that were open when you closed Enlighten.

ENL - Application Specific INI File Options

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Application Specific INI File Options

This page describes how to add various parameters to the ENLIGHTEN.INI file (located in your %APPDATA%\CAST\CAST<Version_Number> directory after installing CAST Products). These parameters add supplementary features to the application.

Never View Folders Option

In certain circumstances, the Initial Scope Selection dialog box may take some time to load (particularly if you have a large number of objects in your Knowledge Base).

Using this option, you can force the application NOT to search for any sub-folders (yellow folder icon), thus reducing the amount of time needed to establish what icons actually need to be displayed:

ENL - Associating objects to Functional Domains

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Associating objects to Functional Domains

When you first place an object in the Graphical View it will not be associated to any Functional Domains.

To associate it to a Functional Domain you have just created:

Right click the object(s) you want to assign in the Technical Browser or in the Graphical View.
Select Send to > Domain in the shortcut menu
The Domain Manager will then launch - select the domain and click OK.
The object will then be automatically associated to the selected domain.

Notes

ENL - Associating objects to Libraries

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Associating objects to Libraries

When you first place an object in the Graphical View it will not be associated to any Libraries.

To associate it to a Library you have just created:

Right click the object(s) you want to assign in the Technical Browser.
Select Send to > Library in the shortcut menu.
Now choose the Library that you want to associate your object to.
The object will then be automatically associated to the selected Library.

Notes

ENL - Belongs To Links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Belongs To Links

Belongs To links represent interactions between parent and child object, for example, C++ Classes and Methods.

Belongs To links are represented in the Graphical View by a solid light pink line and with the B abbreviation.

Notes

Belongs To links are associated by default to the Belongs To layer.

ENL - Blank Graphical View

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Blank Graphical View

The Blank Graphical View option is available in the Assistant. It opens a blank Graphical View with an associated Object Browser window enabling you to create a view from the objects displayed in the Technical Browser.

When this option is selected, the Initial Scope Selection dialog box will be launched:

This dialog box displays all the jobs (projects/analyses) that are currently stored in the Knowledge Base. Initially all items are selected and thus all jobs will be displayed in the Technical Browser.

ENL - Boost based Regular Expressions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Boost based Regular Expressions

This section provides basic help for creating Regular Expressions based on the Boost “engine”.

The text below is an edited version of the Regex++ Library’s regular expression syntax documentation. The original text can be found at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html.

Perl Regular Expression Syntax

In Perl regular expressions, all characters match themselves, except for the following special characters: . , [, {, }, (, ) , , *, +, ? , |, ^, $ .

ENL - Call Hierarchy dialog box

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Call Hierarchy dialog box

This dialog box acts essentially as a filter for the type of objects that you want to take into account during the Call Hierarchy analysis process. You can also specify options for the analysis. Click a section in the image below for more information.

When you are satisfied with your configuration selections, click OK to begin the analysis. See Results for more information.

ENL - Changes to CAST .INI files

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Changes to CAST .INI files

In version 5.1.1, CAST changed the way in which it manages its .INI configuration files. These changes are transparent and you do not need to manually make any changes, however, this help page summarizes the changes that have been made:

In versions 5.1.0 and below, CAST used a general .INI configuration file (cw.ini) located in the WINDOWS/WINNT folder. In version 5.1.1 and above, this file has now been replaced with a new .INI file called GloballySharedSettings.ini. This file is now located in a user specific Application Data folder.

ENL - Code Viewer (Options)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Code Viewer (Options)

The Code Viewer also provides various other options designed to make navigating around your code much easier:

Find

This option enables you to search for any word or phrases in the displayed code:

Right click anywhere in the Code Viewer to launch the shortcut menu
select Find
or use the shortcut key: CTRL+F

This will launch a small dialog box in which you should enter the word or phrase you want to search for:

ENL - Code Viewer window

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Code Viewer window

The Code Viewer window displays the code of an object (or link) stored in your Knowledge Base. During an analysis, the path to the analyzed code is recorded in the Knowledge Base. This path is the path from the machine used to analyze the code to the actual source code. If this path matches the path from the local machine on which Enlighten is being used to the source code, then the source code of an object can be displayed in the Code Viewer window. If the path does not match, the source code cannot be displayed.

ENL - Connection

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Connection

Enlighten provides a graphical representation of the contents of the Knowledge Base. Your Knowledge Base will be installed on any supported CAST Storage Service, Microsoft or Oracle server (please refer to the Release Notes for more information on supported versions).
You therefore need to connect to the server that contains your Knowledge Base using a login name and password that have sufficient permissions to access it. Your CAST administrator will be able to provide you with an appropriate Knowledge Base login name (each user name needs to be specified in the Knowledge Base before a user can gain access - except in a CAST Storage Service environment)).

ENL - Creating Connection Profiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Creating Connection Profiles

In order to establish a connection with your Knowledge Base, you need to create a profile. This can be done with the Add/Edit Connection Profile dialog box.

To open this dialog box:

Click File > Connection located on the menu bar.
In the Existing Connections dialog box, click New.
In the Open Profile Connection dialog box click Add.

Creating a Profile

To create a profile:

Enter the required information in the appropriate fields
Click the Test button to verify that the connection to the server can be established
Click OK to save the Profile.

When you have entered all the required information, tested the connection and clicked OK, the Profile will be stored by the Enlighten - this means that the profile will only be available on the machine you are currently using. In addition, the Profile will be automatically displayed in the Open Profile Connection dialog box.

ENL - Defining scope and source/destination objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Defining scope and source/destination objects

Once you have launched the Path Finder, you will be prompted to select the scope of your Path Finder operation and then the source and destination objects.

Define Scope

The Define Scope dialog box enables you to select the analyzed projects (jobs) - both client and server objects - that will be taken into account during the Path Finder operation.

In addition, all selected projects will be added to the Technical Browser on completion of the Path Finder process.

ENL - Domain Browser

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Domain Browser

The Domain Browser contains a visual representation of the Functional Domains stored in your Knowledge Base and the objects that you have associated with them.

Functional Domains enable you to group together objects of a similar functional use in one “domain”. For example, you may have several Java projects stored in the Knowledge Base. If you create a Functional Domain called “Java Classes” and associate all the Java classes from all the projects in the Knowledge Base you will then be able to see, at a glance, ALL the Java classes under the “Java Classes” domain.

ENL - Dynamic Link Manager dialog box

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dynamic Link Manager

The CAST Management Studio has a feature (the Dynamic Link Manager) that enables you to review “dynamic links” between objects following an analysis (as part of a Snapshot or as a standalone analysis). Dynamic links are links that have been identified between objects (usually based on search strings) and saved to the Analysis Service but their authenticity cannot be absolutely determined by CAST.

ENL - Edition Toolbar

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000


Button	Equivalent Toolbar Command (Menu/Option)	Description of the action performed
	Edit > Copy	Copies the selection into the clipboard.
	Edit > Cut	Removes the currently selected data from the document and places it in the clipboard. This command is not available if no data has been selected. Cutting new data replaces the contents of the clipboard.
	Edit > Paste	Use this command to insert a copy of the clipboard contents at the insertion point. This command is not available if the clipboard is empty.
	Edit > Delete Graphic	Deletes the selected data or item from the Graphical View.
	Edit > Undo	This command lets you undo the most recent editing or graphical actions that you carried out.
	Edit > Redo	This command lets you redo any actions you have undone (with the Undo command).
	Edit > Find object in Graph	Use this command to display the Object Finder dialog box. You can use this dialog box to locate objects in the Graphical View.

ENL - Generating a report...

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Generating a report…

To generate a report about a specific object, group of objects or Graphical View:

Click Tools > Generate a report
Then choose one of the following options:
- Predefined
- On specific objects
- On this Graphical View

ENL - Launching a Report on Specific Objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching a Report on Specific Objects

To launch the Report Wizard:

You can click Tools > Generate Reports located on the menu bar and then select On Specific Objects… from the drop down menu.

The Report Wizard will be launched, starting with the Object Selection page.

Using the Wizard

Navigating through the steps in the wizard is achieved using the Back and Next buttons. At any time, remaining steps can be skipped using the Finish button which will then take you directly to the Report page (where all settings are summarized). In this case certain steps will be skipped. This feature should only be used by experienced users.

ENL - Launching a Report with Predefined

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching a Report with Predefined

To launch a Report with Predefined:

You can click Tools > Generate Reports located on the menu bar and then select Predefined… from the drop down menu.

The Report with Predefined will then be launched, starting with the Template Selection page.

Notes

Please note that you must have the “Run Report Center” right before you can launch this wizard. A CAST Administrator can grant appropriate rights either during the Knowledge Base installation process or using CAST Analysis Manager.

Using the Wizard

Navigating through the steps in the wizard is achieved using the Back and Next buttons. On all pages, the Cancel button aborts the configuration without carrying out any modifications.

ENL - Launching Search in Code/BF/Comments

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching Search in Code/BF/Comments

This feature is in fact two features that function in very similar ways:

Search in Code

Click the menu Tools then select Search in Code from the drop down menu
Right click “white space” in the Graphical View or in the Technical/Domain Browser and select Search in Code from the shortcut menu.
Use the shortcut key CTRL+M.

These options will then automatically launch a series of wizards. The first wizard screen enables you to select the object or group of objects you want to use as the starting point for the search.

ENL - Launching the Display Configurator

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching the Display Configurator

To launch the Display Configurator, you can:

Click Tools > Display Configurator on the menu bar

The Display Configurator will then launch.

ENL - Launching the Profile Manager

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching the Profile Manager

To launch the Profile Manager, you can:

Click the menu Tools then select Profile Manager… from the drop down menu

These options will then automatically launch the Profile Manager dialog box.

ENL - List Format Editor

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

List Format Editor

The List Format Editor dialog box enables you to define how objects are displayed in the User List, Search in Code List and the Search In Comment List.

Launching the dialog box

To launch the List Format Editor:

First make sure you are working in the User List, Search in Code List or the Search in Comment List, then right click anywhere in either to launch the shortcut menu
Select List Format...

Dialog boxes

ENL - Using the Impact window

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Using the Impact window

The Impact window displays the results of:

a Preview Linked Object operation > in the Linked Objects tab
a Call Hierarchy operation > in the Impact Analysis tab

Headings

The column headings are relatively self-explanatory:

Name > Object name
Type > Object type
Owner (Linked Objects tab only) > For server objects - indicates the object owner’s name
Link With (Linked Objects tab only) > Indicates the linked object (in most cases this will be the object selected as the starting object)
Ways (Linked Objects tab only) > Indicates the direction of the link (Calling or Called)
Link Type Summary > (Linked Objects tab only) > Indicates what type of link exists between the objects in the Name and Link With columns
Level (Impact tab only) > Indicates the object’s level. “0” indicates the starting object, “1” is an object that is directly linked to the starting object and level “2” and above indicate objects linked to other levels with a link back to the starting object
Project (Impact Tab only) > Indicates what project the object is part of

Expand Collapse feature

The “+” and “-” signs to the left of the dialog box can be used to expand or collapse the selected object. By using the expand option, you can view more information about the type of link that connects the starting object and the object selected in this window:

Enlighten - Code Viewer - Missing source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page lists issues when the source code is missing in the code viewer in Enlighten.

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Action plan

Check if the source code is mapped to the network drive and present on the machine from where you are launching Enlighten. If it is not present then map it and try again to view source code by hitting F11.
If the object belongs to any of these technologies - PHP / Shell / Fortran / Flex /RPG then Check if the LISA folder is present on the machine from where you are launching Enlighten. The analyzer first pre-processes the files and stores it in LISA. The pre-processed files residing in LISA folder are then analysed.
If the LISA folder is not located in your machine from where you are launching Enlighten then you will not be able to view the source code. To solve this issue Get the Location of the LISA from Enlighten and map the network drive if needed.
1. Press F11 key and see the path in the bottom of Enlighten

Enlighten - Connection - Crash - Enlighten has stopped working

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Enlighten crashes with the follow message: Enlighten has stopped working

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Package the source code
Run the analysis
Enlighten crashes.

Action Plan

Check if Enlighten is crashing when customer is trying to access enlighten with multiple profiles.
This happens because the same enlighten log file is getting accessed by multiple profiles concurrently.
1. Edit the CastGlobalSettings.ini file and modify the temporary directory used by CAST products by pointing to a R/W accessible folder for the three following entries.

Enlighten - DLM - Missing Information - Bookmark

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to the missing bookmark in the DLM view.

In the below image, caller object is SP_GET_BILLING_FREQUENCY and the callee object is “GET_BILLING_REQUENCY”, but it is not bookmarked / highlighted.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

For the given objects (caller and callee objects), follow the steps in SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - How to retrieve bookmark points and note down the final result.

Enlighten - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Enlighten

Minimum Database rights to access Enlighten for Oracle and CSS

To access Enlighten,the minimum database rights required for Oracle and CSS is Read/Write access

Minimum Database rights to access Architecture Checker for Oracle and CSS

To access Architecture Checker, the minimum database rights required for Oracle and CSS is Read access

Minimum Database rights to access Action Plan Optimizer for Oracle and CSS

To access Action Plan Optimizer,the minimum database rights required for Oracle and CSS is Read/Write access.

Enlighten - Launch - Error - Enlighten could not be run in this suite

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handles the case when you execute Enlighten you get the error “Enlighten could not be run in this suite” instead of connection box:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Launch Enlighten

Action Plan

This issue can occur when you launch Enlighten from a Services RemoteApp session like Citrix or Windows Server 2008. This can occur when you try to start any application that relies on wfshell. In fact if wfshell is not loaded, the default.profile is not created correctly. This behavior occurs because when the explorer shell is not loaded with the Run registry entry, the RunOnce registry entry and the startup applications are not loaded. If you start an application which depends on wfshell, it might fail to load because of dependencies executed in the runonce command.
The issue is a design problem of RemoteApp (you can refer to the following link that describe the same issue in the case of Citrix issue description from Citrix support),by design, the TS RemoteApp session implements limited functionality. For example, the RemoteApp session does not process the following items:

Enlighten - Objects - Issue with objects Grouping in Object browser

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to understand the situation where objects are not grouped correctly for MongoDB technology.

For example, In Enlighten, we have MongoDB objects getting created from two different technologies: DotNet and NodeJS.
The objects are displayed in the Object Browser in two different places, which is confusing for the user and leads to errors when investigating:

CAST AIP

CAST AIP	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Action Plan

If you observe the above behavior then please check the following points:

Enlighten - View Generation - Enlighten crashes when trying to open a saved view

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page addresses an issue where Enlighten will crash when trying to open a saved view.

You may not also be able to view the model picture preview in Enlighten or in the Discovery Portal on the dashboard. This is related to the issue with saving the view in Enlighten as Enlighten saves the model picture with the view.

A sample screenshot of Enlighten not showing the model picture preview is shown below:

Excerpt - CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Crash - CPP - Action2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

If the crash occurs after remediating the warnings and errors in the analysis logs:

1. Get the latest preprocessed file. It is located in %TEMP%\CAST\CAST<version>\CAnalyzer2\PreprocessedFile.cpp.
2. Reproduce the issue with the pre-processed file by creating a user defined C/CPP analysis unit and providing the path of this pre-processed file and running it.
  1. If the issue is reproduced, provide CAST Technical Support with only this file in order to reproduce the issue and to investigate
  2. If the issue cannot be reproduced, then provide CAST Technical Support the below Relevant Input in order to reproduce the issue and to investigate.

Excerpt - CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects - JEE - Missing Hibernate Entity - Action Plan

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Step by Step scenario

Migrate the application from lower version to higher version.
Run the analysis on migrated base.
Open enlighten and check for the Hibernate Entity, there would not be any Hibernate entity created.

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

Perform the below actions:

Check in the deploy folder if the hibernate mapping file (*.hbm.xml) is present.
If the hbm.xml files are present in the deploy folder then check in the CAST-MS configuration under the corresponding analysis unit if you have the entry/entries of the folder/files of the Hibernate entity files

Excerpt - Incorrect Total Checks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1. If the total check value from the manual execution is greater than the expected value of the total Check:
  1. Check if the objects involved in the total check are shared between several Analysis Units. For that run the following query on the central schema

select dso.object_id, dso.object_name, dso.object_full_name from DSS_OBJECTS dso join ( select R.SNAPSHOT_ID, R.OBJECT_ID, count(distinct DLIM.PREVIOUS_OBJECT_ID) as SHARING_FACTOR, count(distinct DLI.PREVIOUS_OBJECT_ID) as T_SHARING_FACTOR from DSS_METRIC_TYPES T join DSS_METRIC_HISTO_TREE HT on HT.METRIC_ID = T.METRIC_ID and T.METRIC_GROUP = 1 – and HT.METRIC_CRITICAL = 1 join DSS_METRIC_RESULTS R on R.METRIC_ID = HT.METRIC_ID + 1 and R.METRIC_VALUE_INDEX = 1 and R.SNAPSHOT_ID = HT.SNAPSHOT_ID join DSS_LINK_INFO DLI on DLI.SNAPSHOT_ID = HT.SNAPSHOT_ID and DLI.LINK_TYPE_ID = 3 and DLI.NEXT_OBJECT_ID = R.OBJECT_ID join DSS_LINK_INFO DLIM on DLIM.SNAPSHOT_ID = HT.SNAPSHOT_ID and DLIM.LINK_TYPE_ID = 1 and DLIM.NEXT_OBJECT_ID = DLI.PREVIOUS_OBJECT_ID join DSS_OBJECTS dsom on dsom.OBJECT_ID = dlim.PREVIOUS_OBJECT_ID and dsom.OBJECT_TYPE_ID = 20000 and dsom.OBJECT_NAME not like ‘%union_content%’ join DSS_OBJECTS dsot on dsot.OBJECT_ID = dli.PREVIOUS_OBJECT_ID where R.SNAPSHOT_ID = <Snapshot_id> and T.METRIC_Id = <Metric_id> group by R.SNAPSHOT_ID, R.OBJECT_ID ) T on T.OBJECT_ID = dso.OBJECT_ID where T.SHARING_FACTOR > 1
or T.T_SHARING_FACTOR > 1

Excerpt - set search_path in Tools after Module Generation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Warning

Users should not run queries on the Central Base using “Tools after module generation”. Refer to official documentation for details about the tool editor CMS - Tool editor

If the SQL error is related to a non-existing table or non-existing column (example : “Relation xxxx does not exist” ot “Column xxx does not exist”), the root cause is likely to be a known vulnerability in Cast-MS that will be fixed in Service Pack 8.2.9

Excerpt - Some paths could not be substituted - All

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Discover the source and deliver
Run the analysis
See the Analysis log file

Action Plan

The issue is caused because there exists an Analysis Unit for the windows registry entry of the Visual Studio, selected in the AU configuration, is not found.

To troubleshoot the issue:

Check if the Visual Studio version that has been set in the AU is installed in your analysis server
1. Open the analysis log and check the configuration of all analysis unit for the IDE(s) used by every single one analysis unit. For example:

Excerpt - Unable to process JSP analysis An exception occurred - All

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Action Plan

Follow the below steps:

Check if the problem files being analyzed are in 3rd party code directories. If so, these should be excluded from the analysis as they are not items which should generally be measured.
Check if issue occurs, due to specific source code files.
1. For the following steps, an approximate calculation of the expected investigation time should be done, once the investigation method (file exclusion or dichotomy) has been determined . The analysis time can be found in the relevant information message at the end of the analysis log. For example:

Export the CSV data

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

This tool is ONLY available when using CAST Imaging installed on Microsoft Windows using the traditional installer (i.e. not supported when running CAST Imaging on Docker).

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for exporting the data required for the CAST Imaging.

Requirements


PostgreSQL	✅	The machine on which you are running this extraction must have local or network access to the PostgreSQL where the required data is stored.
Number of Applications per Analysis Service schema	✅	At the current time, it is only possible to extract data from an Analysis Service which contains one single Application, however it is possible to run multiple export actions against multiple Analysis Service schemas to generate data for multiple Applications. This will result in multiple CSV output files which can all be referenced during the import action.

How does it work?

The export process is run with the CLI tool exporter.exe. This tool is installed with CAST Imaging and can be found in the following location:

ExtendCli - Release Notes - 3.4

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

3.4.9-funcrel

New Features

Summary	Details
New extension evaluation “latest or stable” for bundles	Added flag “-t” or “–latest-or-stable” which will favor stable extensions (LTS or Funcrel) and will fallback to the latest version if a compatible stable release is not available

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTENDCLI-87	Fixed an issue that could cause certain extensions to be incorrectly excluded from a bundle.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
55365	Added a configuration option to enable manual definition of TLS protocol to be used to establish SSL handshake for client-server communication.

3.4.8-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTENDCLI-84	Fixed an issue that would cause exact versions to not resolve during bundle creation without an explicit target version of Core.

3.4.7-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Version evaluation	Improved version evaluation for specific pre-release versions.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGKSL-2093	Fixed an issue that would cause extension strategy to conflict with version on install command.

3.4.6-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTENDCLI-81	Fixed an issue that could cause some extensions to fail during installation.

3.4.5-funcrel

New Features

Summary	Details
Named bundle packaging	Added the “-n, –name” option for the command “bundle pack” allowing a bundle to be created with a specific name instead of a randomly generated name.
Extension Strategy restrictions	Added an extension strategy parameter (-e, –extensionStrategy) to the “bundle pack”, “bundle list” and “bundle download” commands.

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Bundle resolution logic	Improved extension resolution when skipping the inclusion of certain dependencies.
Bundle creation	Improved bundle creation speed.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTENDCLI-79	Fixed an issue that caused duplicate extensions to be logged during a bundle creation.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
50290	Fixed an issue that could cause the “–skip-dependency” flag to be ignored under certain conditions.

3.4.4-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGLITE-2618	Fixed an issue which could result in incorrect version resolution in some conditions.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
49232	Fixed an issue that could cause Linux specific bundles to fail.

3.4.3-funcrel

New Features

Summary	Details
“bundle remove” command	Added command ‘bundle remove […package-ids]’ command in order to remove individual extensions from a bundle.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
48891	Added –aip-version/-a options to commands bundle pack, bundle list and bundle download.
49065	Added –aip-version/-a options to commands bundle pack, bundle list and bundle download.

3.4.2-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
48651	Fixed an issue that could cause ExtendCLI to become unusable when deleting the aip-folder it was configured to use.

3.4.1-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGKSL-1198	Fixed incorrect version evaluation when installing from local repository.

3.4.0-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
“bundle extract” command	New command to allow the user to either extract a bundle locally, or install all contents of the bundle directly.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTENDCLI-66	Improved startup performance.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
47099	Improved messages for user assistance.

Extension Downloader - Information - How to download an extension using nuget for investigation purpose

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on how to download an extension using nuget. if a user is having problems with the extension down loader, this can be useful to debug and/or provide more details on the extension download process,

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation for extension downloading: Download an extension

CAST Component Version

Release	Yes/No
8.2	✅
8.3	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Details

Frequently Asked Questions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

To view the Frequently Asked Questions associated with the CAST AIP components listed below, click on the relevant link.

Setup - FAQ

Server Manager - FAQ

CMS Analysis Unit - FAQ

CMS Assessment Model - FAQ

CMS Snapshot Analysis - FAQ

CAST Management Studio - FAQ

Delivery Manager Tool - FAQ

Architecture Checker - FAQ

Enlighten - FAQ

Generic components in Report Generator 1.26

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Generic Tables for Application Mode

Axis and Values

Axis	Values
SNAPSHOTS	CURRENT, PREVIOUS, EVOL, EVOL_PERCENT, ALL
METRICS	, HEALTH_FACTOR, BUSINESS_CRITERIA, TECHNICAL_CRITERIA, QUALITY_RULES, CRITICAL_QUALITY_RULES, FUNCTIONAL_WEIGHT, TECHNICAL_SIZING, VIOLATION, CRITICAL_VIOLATION, ~~TECHNICAL_DEBT~~ (deprecated), RUN_TIME, <STANDARD_TAG_NAME> (1)
MODULES	, ALL
TECHNOLOGIES	, ALL
VIOLATIONS (2)	TOTAL, ADDED, REMOVED, ALL
CRITICAL_VIOLATIONS (2)	TOTAL, ADDED, REMOVED, ALL
CUSTOM_EXPRESSIONS	(3)
OMG_TECHNICAL_DEBT (4)	TOTAL, ADDED, REMOVED, ALL

Info

(1): The selection of metrics by standard quality tag name should only be used for an application where the extension Quality Standards Mapping is installed. If not, no metrics will be selected and the table will be empty.
(2): To get results on violations or critical violations on a specific metric, add the axis “METRICS=M” where M is a metric id referenced in the Assessment Model.
(3): in this axis, you can configure custom expressions as we do in the other components based on (cf sample 12)
- CUSTOM_EXPRESSIONS=a/b|c/d=a/b|(c+d)/2, (operators can be +, -, *, / , (, ) ), list of custom expressions separated by |
- PARAMS=SZ a SZ b QR c QR d, (SZ for sizing measure or category - since 1.17, QR for quality rule, BF for background fact)
- a=MetricId, (sample 67211 – all violations)
- b=MetricId, (sample 10151 – number of code lines)
- c = MetricId, 60013 for Robustness
- d = MetricId, 60014 for Efficiency
- FORMAT=N0 | N2 (N2 by default, if nothing or erroneous format is set), the first format is associated to the first custom expression,…
(4):
- Requires installation of OMG Technical Debt Measure (>2.0.0 funcrel) (and ISO-5055 Index extensions and/or CISQ Index extensions)
- To get results on Omg Technical Debt on a specific metric, add the axis “METRICS=M” where M is a index id (ISO, CISQ or AIP)

Table Structure

COL 1: (1st axis of information, mandatory)
COL 11: (2nd axis of information, optional)
ROW 1: (1st axis of information, mandatory)
ROW 11: (2nd axis of information, optional)

	COL1 value 1- COL11 value1	COL1 value1 - COL11 value2	COL1 value2 - COL11 value 1	COL1 value2 - COL11 value 2
ROW1 value 1
ROW11 value 1
ROW11 value 2
ROW1 value 2
ROW11 value 1
ROW11 value 2

Alt Text configuration

TABLE;GENERIC_TABLE;COL1=A,COL11=B,ROW1=C,ROW11=D,A=a,B=b,C=c|d,D=e|f|g

where A,B,C and D are one of the axis above
and a, b, c, d, e, f, g is one or multiple tags of the axis

Notes

Info

No space can be left on the configuration (except if your module or technology contains it).
MODULES: if no information filled, then default value is “ALL”
TECHNOLOGIES: if no information filled, then default value is “ALL”
SNAPSHOTS: When a snapshot is displayed in a table, we display “Snapshot Name -Snapshot version”. if no information filled, then default value is “ALL”
VIOLATIONS: if no information filled, then default value is “ALL”
CRITICAL_VIOLATIONS: if no information filled, then default value is “ALL”
METRICS: if no information filled, then default value is “HEALTH_FACTOR”
OMG_TECHNICAL_DEBT: if no information filled, then default value is “ALL”

Samples

SAMPLE 1

Simple table to get Efficiency, TQI, Robustness scores for current snapshot only

Get the installation media

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Package/Component Minimum release Get the media from...

CAST Extend Offline (optional)

or:

CAST Extend Proxy (optional)

No minimum release (all supported releases), but CAST recommends the latest release wherever possible.

CAST Extend Offline

https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aip.extendservice&version=latest

Package is provided in a ZIP file - within it you will find an executable EXE file which contains the installation setup.

CAST Extend Proxy

https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aip.extendproxy&version=latest

Package is provided in a ZIP file - within it you will find an executable EXE file which contains the installation setup.

Get the installation media for CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Package/Component Minimum release Get the media from...

CAST Imaging

≥ 2.2.0-funcrel

CAST Imaging for Microsoft Windows

https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.imaging&version=latest

Package is provided in a ZIP file - within it you will find an executable file ImagingSystemSetup.exe which contains the installation setup for a brand new clean installation.

CAST Imaging for Docker

https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.imaging.docker&version=latest

Package is provided in a ZIP file - within it you will find scripts and files to be used with Docker on Linux or Microsoft Windows.

GUI common fields

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section provides details about options that are common to all the GUI based tools.

Connection / Dashboard Connection tabs

When using the GUI based tools to install and configure your Health Dashboard, you are required to enter various parameters that will allow you to connect to your chosen RDBMS/CAST Storage Service. The parameters that are required are the same in all GUIs and are listed below:

Guidelines on preparing the Application Rapid Discovery Report for Onboarding

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Version 1.0

Date 11 Dec 2023

Info

Version History

Version	Date	Author	Sections Changed	Description of Change	Status (Draft / Under Review / Approved)
1.0	17 Nov 2016	Praveen B. Chougule		Added page	Under Review

Table of Contents

Objective

This report is prepared to have a fair idea on the application after the initial run/out of the box/ minimal configuration of the app. This report contains the details of the application size, transaction coverage, imaging view and missing components. (Approximately the time required to prepare this report is 60 mins to 90 mins).

Health Dashboard - Application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues with Application.

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Select the section you are interested in.
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the below Relevant input:

For CAST Technical Support Only - Health Dashboard - Information - How to reproduce HD issues

Health Dashboard - Automated FP - Missing Automated FP - Function point tiles shows N A

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides assistance with resolving the issue of function point tiles showing N/A on the Health Dashboard as shown in the screenshot below:
Figure 1

Various tiles dealing with the function point results can exhibit this behavior. For information on tiles, please see this page: HD - Tile management

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Perform analysis and snapshot
View results on HD dashboard
Automated Function Point tile shows N/A

Action Plan

Health Dashboard - Available information - ISO 5055 - Overview section

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Info

This section will be visible only in Dashboard v **≥**1.26 and v **≥**2.0.0

The **ISO 5055 (ISO/IEC 5055)**Overview section is available “out of the box” in v. ≥ 1.26. It contains five tiles that display information about the entire portfolio of Applications (multi-Application page) or a single Application. These tiles rely on the presence of the ISO-5055 Index extension in your Application to generate the required data, therefore this extension must be installed and a new snapshot generated before the tiles will show any data.

Health Dashboard - Connection - login - logout - check for update

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This page provides instructions for connecting to the Health Dashboard and the login and logout options.

Connecting to the Health Dashboard

To connect to the Health Dashboard, browse to the URL provided to you by your CAST Administrator. This will usually be in the following format:

http://<server>:[<port>]/CAST-Health

The login page will then be displayed:

Access from the AIP Console

Accessing the Health Dashboard from the AIP Console is simple - click the appropriate icon:

Health Dashboard - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

What happens in HD for the global Technical Debt if the applications gathered in HD are not configured with the same currency ?

When you consolidate the applications on HD all of them must be of the same currency type. Then that particular uniform currency type could be managed on the tile.

Does HD support Consolidation method of grades (such as based on LoC or Background Facts)?

We only have a simple average of applications and the result would be a simple average on the system level. The results that you see on the HD Dashboard’s homepage is the system level result. For the results based on size - LoC and Total Quality Index, the tile “Application Map” is to be opened so that it can show the results for different applications.

Health Dashboard - Graphs - Wrong Graph

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues when the Graph displayed on HD is wrong. For instance - the curve for application DriveTo has to rise till 20.0 m but its not.

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Select the section you are interested in.
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the following Relevant input:

Health Dashboard - LDAP connection - How to validate the Authentication

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides steps to validate Authentication.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Action Plan

In order to check the Authentication you need to compare the parameter between security.properties and the attribute LDAP. For this you need to open the file %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\CAST-AICPortal\WEB-INF\security.properties and to open the LDAP connection with Apache Directory Studio then do the following:

Health Dashboard - LDAP connection - How to validate the Authorization

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provide you with steps in order to validate the Authorization

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Action Plan

Get the DN of the user by referring to Health Dashboard - Information - LDAP connection - How to get the Distinguished name (Till 8.2 this is the way of authorizing, but CN (common Name) will be used in 8.3.x.)

Health Dashboard - Login - Error - Application failed to start

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to investigate the error after login “Application failed to start”

Dashboard Package version

Release	Yes/No
1.x	✅
2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Deploy HD war and configure
Access HD
Observe error

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

If you observe the above mentioned error after login then please ensure war configuration is correct by following - Installation and deployment process

Health Dashboard - Modules - Missing Modules - Modules Mapping tile does not show all the modules for the application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

In certain cases with the Application Analytics Dashboard, the modules mapping tile may not be able to show all the modules for the application depending on the module weighting.

You may see something like the following screenshot in this case with just one module visible in the modules mapping tile, but multiple modules can be seen in other tiles:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Health Dashboard - Quality Rules - Duplicate Quality Rules

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to resolve the issue of duplicate quality rules which is observed only in Health Dashboard or Application Analytics Dashboard as shown below :

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅
8.2	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Deploy HD
Launch and observe duplicate QR

Action Plan

If you observe duplicate quality rules in Health Dashboard then please perform the below actions :

Health Dashboard - Run Consolidation - CLI - Error - Integer out of range

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the issue of the below error seen in the command prompt while uploading snapshot from the central schema to the measure schema via the CLI. Please refer Using the GUI and CLI tools for Health Dashboard

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: integer out of range

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Upload a snapshot from the central to the measure schema

Action Plan

Health Dashboard - Run Consolidation - GUI - Error - Another synchronization in the same measure is currently in progress this synchronization will wait and retry

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to handle the following error : Another synchronization in the same measure is currently in progress this synchronization will wait and retry

Observed in CAST Version

Cast AIP Version	Yes
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Check consolidate button
Run application

Action Plan

Check if there is a lock created for synchronization then removed it - SQL Queries - CAST Measure Base - Consolidation - Check if there is a lock created for synchronization and remove it

Health Dashboard - Run Consolidation - GUI - Error - Failed to consolidate DSS_SNAPSHOTS for Snapshot ID X

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This Page provides assistance when we get the message ‘Failed to consolidate DSS_SNAPSHOTS for Snapshot ID X’ like in the following log section while running the consolidation for the Application Analytics Dashboard (HD)

Options saved!
Consolidate -url jdbc:postgresql://:2280/postgres -schema <schema_name> -password ******* -remote_url jdbc:postgresql://:2280/postgres -remote_schema <schema_name> -remote_password *******
New Site registered .operator (remoteID: 309100840 consolidatedID: 309100840)
Found snapshot ID: 1
Failed to consolidate DSS_SNAPSHOTS for Snapshot ID: -5Found snapshot ID: 6
Failed to consolidate DSS_SNAPSHOTS for Snapshot ID: -6Technology Deleted, ID: 18

Health Dashboard - Snapshot - Incorrect snapshot content

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues when the content of the snapshot is wrong on HD. For instance there are X objects in Snapshot n and X+Y objects in Snapshot n+1 but this is not displayed on HD.
For instance

the LOC for Snapshot V12 is 209,370 and for V11 the LOC is 370,899.
critical violation count for Snapshot V12 is 304 and for V11 it is 204 , etc

When you select the two versions from the top left drop down in the Application Landing page you can see that for both the versions, the LOC , critical violations , etc are displayed as 209,370 , 304 , etc respectively, which implies that the entire content of the snapshot is wrong on HD.

Health Dashboard - Snapshot - Missing Snapshot - Snapshot is missing in the Select your snapshot filter

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution to the problem of snapshot not visible in the list of snapshots for a single version of the application on HD.

Refer to the screenshot below to understand the issue:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Health Dashboard - Tags - Unable to add tags and categories in health dashboard due to error "something went wrong while trying to save"

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will guide you to solve the error “something went wrong while trying to save” encountered while trying to add tags and categories in health dashboard.

For more information refer Health Dashboard tag and category management

Applicable Platform

Dashboard Version	Yes/No
1.x	✅
2.x	✅

Step by step scenario

Navigate to health dashboard category and tag management page by using the below links based on mode of deployment.
WAR 1.x and 2.x :http://:/CAST-Health/static/tags.html

Health Dashboard - Technical Debt - Missing Added and Removed Technical Debt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to understand the Technical Debt calculation for added or removed violations.

Observed in CAST Version, CAST Extension Version, CAST Component Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅
8.2	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis+snapshot
Configure and launch HD
Observe Added and Removed Technical Debt is 0

Action Plan

Health Dashboard - Technology - Duplicate Technology - DOTNet technology is displayed twice in the Filter of HD

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution to the problem of duplicate DotNET technology shown in the filter of HD after migration from 7.3.x to 8.0.x.

The technology filter shows .Net and .NET both on the HD when an application is migrated from 7.3.x to 8.0.x. Please refer to the below screenshot to know about the issue:

This issue is permanently fixed in CAST AIP 8.0.5. This issue is not encountered in 8.1.

Health Dashboard - Tiles - Error - Server Issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page describes how to troubleshoot issue when tiles in HD wont list tile names. This happens when upgrading from 7.3 to 8.0 or 8.1 or 8.2.

Please note that this wont create any problem in the upgrade of the measurement base from 7.3. The HD.war can be deployed and we can connect to the upgraded measure schema.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Health Dashboard - Tiles - Performance Issue - Security tiles are not showing the data

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to resolve the issue in Health dashboard where security tiles are not loading the data.

Applicable Platform or

Platform or	Yes/No
8.3	✅
8.2	❌

Action Plan

If you observe that security related tiles are not loading in health dashboard then please check the below points.

This issue occurs when you use the dashboard war from AIP installation.To resolve this you need to use the war files from Dashboard Package.Latest version is recommended.
If the problem still persist then report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the below Relevant input to CAST Technical Support.

Relevant input

CAST Support Tool (CST) - alias Sherlock export with the following optionsExport CAST Bases with Central base, Measurement Base and CAST HD/AED Folder.
Screenshot showing the problem.

Ticket # 22153

Health Dashboard - Views - Empty or blank view - Evolution View show up as blank

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When using the HD Dashboard, evolution tiles or screens on the dashboard show up as blank.

Here is an example screenshot:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Action Plan

This issue can occur when you have customized the JSON files used by the HD Dashboard.

Health Dashboard - Views - Error - Page Not Found of Cast HD Help

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes about a known problem with HD Homepage. The URL or link of HD Documentation which is accessed after clicking on the “Question Mark” on the left hand side of HD homepage, opens a link in new tab on which the error comes that the “Page Not Found”.

Below are the screenshots which will help you understand the error:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

Health Dashboard - Views - Missing View - Modules Tree map view is missing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

After accessing the application analysis dashboard HD, you want to filter results by application, then you click on the tile of module mapping (see the first screenshot), you are waiting to get the Module Treemap webpage (see the second screenshot) instead you are getting the web page that is supposed to appear after this intermediate webpage (see the third screenshot).

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Health Dashboard - Violations - Missing Violations - Added and Removed Critical Violations are showing NA

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution for the issue of empty tiles coming on the HD for Added and Removed Critical Violations even though there are values displayed for these metrics on CED.

Please refer to the below screenshots to get a better idea about the issue:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Health Dashboard - War Deployment - Error - Unable to start application - Cast HD

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This section is helpful when you face an error on Tomcat manager page - Unable to start application - CASTHD /

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Select the page depending on the issue you are facing.
If the issue that you are facing is not listed above then contact CAST Technical Support with the Relevant Input

Notes/Comments

How to publish documentation for CAST User Community extensions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: Any CAST User Community extension (i.e. a custom extension) requires documentation that is freely available on the internet. CAST highly recommends creating the documentation within the GitHub repository you are using for the source code. This page describes the steps required to publish documentation in GitHub.

In the GitHub repository (see Prerequisites and top-tips for creating a custom extension for more information about this) you are using to store the custom extension’s source code, click the Wiki tab:

HTML5 - Best Practice

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

HTML5

Target Audience: CAST Administrators

Summary: This document provides a guide based on CAST’s field experience on how to configure Spring based applications using CAST AIP. These configurations are used over and above CAST AIP 8.2.x HTML5 offering (see Reference Materials below for links) to overcome limitations such as missing links. The applicability of this guide should have assessed for newer versions of CAST AIP and Extension.

Introduction to HTML5

This section gives a brief overview of the framework.

Initial login to Keycloak and configure a redirect - v. 2.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page explains how to login to Keycloak for the first time and configure a redirect URI to ensure Console front-end can be accessed from wherever required.

The Console authentication providerhas been totally restructured in ≥ 2.x and uses the open-source OAuth2 compatible **Keycloak**system. Keycloak provides local authentication, and can also interact with other enterprise authentication systems such as LDAP and SAML. Before you start using Console, you should configure a redirect in Keycloak to allow access to Console using the Console host name or IP address in addition to localhost (which is pre-configured). If you do not, users will not be able to login to Console correctly. To do so, connect to Keycloak from any machine on the local network:

Initial login to Keycloak and configure a redirect - v. 2.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page explains how to login to Keycloak for the first time and configure a redirect URI to ensure Console front-end can be accessed from wherever required.

Initial login to Keycloak and configure a redirect - v. 2.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page explains how to login to Keycloak for the first time and configure a redirect URI to ensure Console front-end can be accessed from wherever required.

Install additional tools and patches - optional - v. 1.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to perform various actions that may be necessary and not automatically managed by the GUI/CLI installation process.

Introduction

Due to some constraints with regard to the GUI/CLI installation process for the Console/Node packages, it may be necessary to perform some additional manual actions depending on the Console / AIP Core releases you are using. Each is described below.

Install default discoverers

Note

Note that the patching of the default discoverers is not required if you are using Console ≥ 1.8.x.

Install additional tools and patches - optional - v. 1.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to perform various actions that may be necessary and not automatically managed by the GUI/CLI installation process.

Introduction

Install default discoverers

Note

Note that the patching of the default discoverers is not required if you are using Console ≥ 1.8.x.

Install AIP Core

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for installing A****IP Core.

Installation requirements

✅

AIP Core is delivered in a ZIP file. Make sure you have the required ZIP file ready and unzipped to a folder on the AIP Node (it cannot be run from a network location).

✅ AIP Core needs to be installed on all AIP Nodes (i.e. dedicated servers) that will be managed by AIP Console. The installation process consists of running a setup installer on the target server.

✅

Installation paths:

Install CAST Dashboards - existing customers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

At the current time there are two methods available for deploying CAST Dashboards (Health/Engineering) - each option has its advantages and disadvantages. The steps required for each option are detailed below.

Use dashboards embedded in the AIP Console package

Advantages

Seamless login with Console credentials
Roles assigned in Console are active in embedded dashboards to restrict access to Application data
Dedicated icons in the AIP Console to directly access the required dashboard
Fully embedded in AIP Console processes

Documentation: Embedded CAST Dashboard deployment process

Disadvantages

Dashboard customization not currently possible
Dashboards cannot be manually updated to a new dashboard version independently: since the dashboards are embedded in AIP Console, updating to a new dashboard version requires updating AIP Console and all AIP Nodes to a new release which contains the required version of the dashboard

Use standalone dashboards

Advantages

Can be fully customized as required

If you have decided to use standalone dashboards, please follow the instructions provided in Standalone CAST Dashboard deployment processand ensure you configure the standalone dashboards to display data from the relevant schemas installed by AIP Console:

Installation Guide JAF - V1.5 Build 8

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The installation of the automation framework involves two key components, Jenkins and the CAST Batch Web Service. Jenkins will run under almost any operating system, however since CAST will only run on windows, to keep things simple, it is recommended that it be installed under windows. This is only a recommendation, if the client has a working version of Jenkins, in an environment other than Windows use it.
This section describes the installation process for all required components.

Installation Guide JAF - V1.5 Build 9

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

J2EE - Information - How to identify the Java code version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to identify the version of Java used to implement Java application.

Details

Run the following command line

<JAVA INSTALLATION FOLDER>\bin\javap -verbose <YOUR .CLASS file> | findstr "major"

The major version can be found from the result. Refer to the page General_layout - 6 and 7 byte - version of java:

Java 1.2 uses major version 46
Java 1.3 uses major version 47
Java 1.4 uses major version 48
Java 5 uses major version 49
Java 6 uses major version 50
Java 7 uses major version 51
Java 8 uses major version 52
Java 9 uses major version 53

Example

JAF V1.5 Build 5 - User Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Release Updates

Correction to make snapshot retention policy feature work as expected.
Correction to make snapshot deletion work as expected when a START_AT parameter of 1 (DMT Code Delivery), 2 (Accept Delivery), 3 (Run Analysis) or 4 (Run Snapshot) is used to rerun the last failed job if it generated a snapshot.

Known Issues

None

CAST AIP Automation Solution

AIP Automation Solution is based on the Jenkins Continuous Integration system and supports automation which has been tested against AIP versions specified in the Automation Tooling#FieldToolingCompatibilityTesting . Each application is automated individually through its own Jenkins job, and consists of seven configurable tasks to complete CAST analysis process from delivery to database optimization.

JAF V1.5 Build 6 - User Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Release Updates

Correction to make snapshot deletion work as expected when a START_AT parameter of 1 (DMT Code Delivery), 2 (Accept Delivery), 3 (Run Analysis) or 4 (Run Snapshot) is used to rerun the last failed job if it generated a snapshot.
Correction to handle Socket time out exception occurred during Snapshot validation from Jenkins.
New feature has been implemented to show the total elapsed time of Jenkins job in Jenkins console output.

Known Issues

None

CAST AIP Automation Solution

JAF V1.5 Build3 - User Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Release Updates

Automatic load balancing (Job distribution in different analysis servers).

CAST AIP Automation Solution

Backup CAST Database Trio
Deliver Application Code
Accept Delivery
Perform the application analysis
Generate the snapshot
Validate the snapshot results
Publish snapshot results to the Application Analysis Dashboard (AAD)
Database Optimization

The Jenkins system exposes a single job for each automated application. These jobs can then be configured to run on a predefined schedule via Jenkins Scheduler, any Windows-based Scheduler, manually through the Jenkins web interface, or the CAST Application Operations Console (AOP). The automation system can be configured to run the entire process completely hands off or with some human intervention. In the event of a failure the Jenkins job can be restarted from any of the steps listed above. This feature is currently being leveraged by AOP.

JAF V1.5 Build4 - User Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Release Updates

Correction to failing Archive Delivery issue
Correction to CSS Optimization issue schema rename
Correction in Rescan Success Emails

Known Issues

Snapshot retention policy feature not working as expected - Recommendation is to not use it.
Snapshot is not deleted when a START_AT parameter of 1 (DMT Code Delivery), 2 (Accept Delivery), 3 (Run Analysis) or 4 (Run Snapshot) is used to rerun the last failed job if it generated a snapshot.

CAST AIP Automation Solution

Java SE 8 - Java SE 11 - OpenJDK support for CAST AIP

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CAST AIP relies on the use of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or the Java Development Kit (JDK) to function and CAST therefore fully understands that the change in Oracle’s licensing policy, will have a significant impact on you, our customers. In short, CAST will continue to support the use of Oracle Java SE 8 for CAST AIP, but CAST will also offer you the option to use Java SE 11 either through Oracle or an OpenJDK provider. In detail:

KB Explorer - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Version Release Content

1.0.0 Pending Initial production release

0.9.9

In Progress

Nature Description

Improvement

Added a row number column on each table of the information tabs:

Improvement

Added creation/analysis dates on Identity tab:

Improvement

Added signature, parameters, ... on methods and functions in the Properties tab:

KB Update SQL Tool - CI entry tables

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

As explained in the previous section, in order to modify and update the Analysis schema, a set of entry tables are injected with data that defines how the Analysis schema will be altered.

Entry tables

The following is an exhaustive list of entry tables ordered by function. Each table and its function is described in more detail below.

Error management	CI_ERRORS
Object modification	GUID_OBJECTS CI_OBJECTS CI_NO_OBJECTS
Parent type link modification	CI_PARENTS
Object property modification	CI_STR_PROPERTIES CI_INT_PROPERTIES CI_NO_PROPERTIES
Link modification	CI_NO_LINKS CI_LINKS
Link property modification (available in ≥ 8.3.45)	CI_INT_LINK_PROPERTIES CI_STR_LINK_PROPERTIES CI_NO_LINK_PROPERTIES

CI_ERRORS

This table will be injected with data if any errors or data inconsistencies are found during the data check process (this takes place when the job is executed).

KB Update SQL Tool - Removing an existing object using CI_NO_OBJECTS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Based on object’s ID

In this example, we are going to remove a VB Sub called “Disconnect” from the Analysis schema. The image below shows the object in CAST Enlighten:

The first step is to insert the data into the CAST entry tables that will cause the object in question to be removed from the Analysis Service when the tool is run:

insert into <KB_name>.dbo.CI_NO_OBJECTS (OBJECT_ID, ERROR_ID)
select OBJECT_ID, 0
from <KB_name>.dbo.CTV_GUID_OBJECTS
where OBJECT_NAME = 'Disconnect'
go

Info

The 0 parameter will enter 0 in the ERROR_ID column of the CI_NO_OBJECTS table.
Note that you need to specify the Analysis Service database and user as above “<KB_name>.dbo” otherwise the query will fail when the job is run.

Then:

Keycloak - Local Authentication

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

Local authentication (users defined directly in Keycloak) is enabled by default. CAST provides a predefined local user called “admin” with the password “admin” and the “admin” and “dashboard_admin” roles.

Change admin user password

The “admin” user has access to everything (all applications, Admin Center, embedded Dashboards (all applications) etc.). You can use this user without any further changes, however, CAST highly recommends changing the password for this user. To do so, click Users > View all users:

Legacy - Agile Onboarding Process without AIP-Console

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Version 2.2

Table of Contents

Purpose

This document details CAST’s Agile Onboarding Process along with the checklist templates used.

Applicability

This Iterative Agile process is recommended to be implemented in measurement programmes with management visibility. It helps in quickly onboarding applications, with minimal technical documents needed from app teams and helps avoid tunnel effect. Agile onboarding will have three iterations and will not have any custom solution implemented.

Prerequisites for onboarding

CAST Application Intelligence Portal (AIP) is installed
The Technologies/Frameworks used in the applications are supported.
Extensions to be used if required
Application Intelligence Administrator AIA has access to CAST Virtual Machine (VM)

Out of scope

Rescan and rescan automation
Unsupported technologies
Clean-ups and retention

Target Audience

All AI admins who would be onboarding an application

Process Flow Without AIP Console

Agile Onboarding Process Overview

The agile onboarding process consists of three iterations -

Linux Docker Installer - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

This extension is deprecated. Please use the Docker Installer extension instead.

1.0.0-beta3

Note

This release of the installer:

is designed to be used only with CAST Imaging ≥ 2.0.0-beta8 docker images.
requires Python v. 3.x to be installed on the target server.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-2369	Update the neo4j.conf file to 4.0.7 version.
IMAGSYS-2481	Bug fix to avoid permission issues when overwriting neo4j.conf file.

1.0.0-beta2

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-2291	Bug fix to ensure that the timezone used in the CAST Imaging containers matches the timezone of the host server. Previously, the timezone used in the CAST Imaging containers was set to UTC.
IMAGSYS-2291	Bug fix to ensure that the LOG_PATH variable located in the etl_config.json (used to generate logs for the application data export/import process) generates logs in the correct location.
-	This release can be used with CAST Imaging ≥ 1.12.0-beta4.
-	This release and all future releases will install CAST Imaging on port 8083, even if you pull a release of CAST Imaging that does not yet run by default on port 8083 (1.12.0-beta4 and 2.0.0-beta5).

1.0.0-beta1

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
-	Initial release of the extension. Can be used with CAST Imaging ≥ 1.12.0-beta4.

Maintenance activities for PostgreSQL

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

End of Life Notice

Info

Summary: This section is designed to group together all miscellaneous backup, optimization and maintenance documentation related to the CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL. All the tools listed in this page can be found in the CSSAdmin folder at the root of your AIP Core installation.

Managing CAST Imaging - Docker

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information to help you manage your CAST Imaging installation (start, stop, restart etc.)

Introduction

CAST Imaging on Docker is controlled by a set of commands that can be viewed using any of the following commands. Ensure you are running the command from the folder created when unzipping/installing the Docker Installer extension:

Linux:
./imaging
./imaging -h
./imaging --help

Microsoft Windows:
imaging.exe
imaging.exe -h
imaging.exe --help

Usage

usage: imaging [-h] [-s command [command ...]] [-d DIR] [-c CONFIGFILE]
 [--user USER] [--password PASSWORD] [--port PORT]
 [--updateimage KEY=VALUE [KEY=VALUE ...]] [--importapp]
 [--exportapp EXPORTAPP] [--restoreapp RESTOREAPP]
 [--update KEY=VALUE [KEY=VALUE ...]]

Imaging setup manager!

optional arguments:
 -h, --help show this help message and exit
 -s command [command ...], --service command [command ...]
 imaging -s status
 -d DIR, --dir DIR Provide the installation location for CAST Imaging.
 -c CONFIGFILE, --configfile CONFIGFILE
 config file for ETL automation
 --user USER username used to connect to neo4j server
 --password PASSWORD password used to connect to neo4j server
 --port PORT host port for neo4j server
 --updateimage KEY=VALUE [KEY=VALUE ...]
 Update individual image tags.
 --importapp Import new application from postgres
 --exportapp EXPORTAPP
 Export the application
 --restoreapp RESTOREAPP
 Restore the application
 --update KEY=VALUE [KEY=VALUE ...]
 Update CAST Imaging.

Examples

Start CAST Imaging

Docker Installer extension:
Linux: ./imaging -s start
Microsoft Windows: imaging.exe -s start

Linux Docker Installer extension (deprecated)
imaging -s start

Stop CAST Imaging

Docker Installer extension:
Linux: ./imaging -s stop
Microsoft Windows: imaging.exe -s stop

Linux Docker Installer extension (deprecated)
imaging -s stop

Stop a specific container

Docker Installer extension:
Linux: ./imaging -s stop container_name
Microsoft Windows: imaging.exe -s stop container_name

Linux Docker Installer extension (deprecated)
imaging -s stop container_name

Restart CAST Imaging

Docker Installer extension:
Linux: ./imaging -s restart
Microsoft Windows: imaging.exe -s restart

Linux Docker Installer extension (deprecated)
imaging -s restart

Restart a specific container

Docker Installer extension:
Linux: ./imaging -s restart container-name
Microsoft Windows: imaging.exe -s restart container-name

Linux Docker Installer extension (deprecated)
imaging -s restart container-name

View the status of CAST Imaging containers

Docker Installer extension:
Linux: ./imaging -s status
Microsoft Windows: imaging.exe -s status

Linux Docker Installer extension (deprecated)
imaging -s status

Export and import data

See Automation tool export and import process.

Operating systems Information - Changing a drive letter and Mapping drive

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page describes the method to Change a drive letter and Map a drive.

Details

Change a drive letter

Follow below process to change the drive letter
1- Click on the “Start” button
2- In the menu, right click on “My computer” and choose “Manage”
3- In the Computer Management window, expand section “Storage” à choose “Disk Management”
4- In the bottom section of the right Panel you’ll see the different Media Disk 0, Disk 1 , etc.
5- Access the menu to choose “Change Drive letter and Paths” by
5.1. Right clicking on the right (white) section when the media in online or
5.2. Right clicking on the left (gray) section when there is no media
6- In the “Change Drive letter and Paths” dialog box, click on button “change” and select an available letter

Operating systems Information - Getting Windows parameters - Getting DLL Version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page explains how to get the DLL version in Windows

Details

For a Windows DLL

To get the version information for , please locate this DLL in your c:\windows\system32 directory, right-click on it and choose Properties > Version. Please indicate the value for ‘File version:’

For a CAST DLL

To get the version information for , please locate this DLL in your CAST installation directory (by default ‘C:\Program Files\CAST\6.0.1 for Oracle’), right-click on it and choose Properties > Version. Please indicate the value for ‘File version:’

Operating systems Information - Mapping a network drive - within QuickBooks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

From the QuickBooks File menu, choose Open Company.
From the Look in drop-down list, choose My Network Places.
Double-click Entire Network.
Double-click the computer where the company file resides.
Right-click the folder containing the company file and select Map Network Drive.
Select an unassigned drive letter. Windows defaults to the first available letter, but you can choose any drive letter that is unassigned.

Select Reconnect at Logon.

Click Finish.

From the Look in drop-down list, select the drive letter you assigned, and then in the main window, choose your company file name and click Open.

PostgreSQL - Deployment requirements

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

End of Life Notice

Info

Summary: information to help you plan your PostgreSQL installation.

Hardware

On-premise

Server type

Architecture

CPU

RAM

DISK

Notes

Physical/virtual

64-bit

Minimum 2 processors:

Intel Core i5, 2.6 GHz
Intel Xeon, 2.2 GHz

Recommended 4 processors:

PostgreSQL 10 or above deployment on Linux

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

End of Life Notice

Info

Summary: CAST does not provide a CAST Storage Server (CSS) installer for Linux environments, however, CAST recommends installing the equivalent PostgreSQL version on a Linux server to take advantage of the superior performance over CSS installed on Windows - please follow the instructions below to do so.

Prerequisites for Infrastructure - Installation - Security - Rights

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Version 1.2 - Updated 7-Jul-2021

This information can be downloaded here in a Word format

1. Introduction

This document provides prerequisites regarding Hardware, Software, Network, Security and Rights aspect for a proper CAST installation on site.

The server shall be installed on Client’s site and will be available through a VPN access for CAST users.

2. Service level agreement

Cast will operate the platform and 2 types of operation will be executed.

RDBMS - CAST Storage Service - CAST Storage Service 3 - Service did not start or stopped abruptly

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to troubleshoot CAST Storage Service 3 Service issues.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅

Action Plan

Make sure that you are following the minimum system configuration requirements to run the CAST Storage Service: CAST AIP for Dashboards
Check whether the available disk space on the drive where the CAST Storage Service is installed is higher than 0 MB.

RDBMS - Cast Storage Service - Error - The CastStorageSevice on Local Computer started and then stopped - The Log on is not Local System

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to resolve the issue you may face while starting the CastStorageService service when the log on As ID is not Local System but another one like shown in the below screenshot:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.X	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

In the Windows Services, right click CastStorageService2 Service, select properties, go to the Log on Tab. Select This account and add a new account to run the CastStorageService2 service like shown in the below screenshot
Figure 2
Then Run the CastStorageService2 service.
The CastStorageService2 service stops with the below error message :
Figure 3
Open the Event Viewer log (start menu, following error message appear : FATAL: could not create file “postmaster.pid”: Permission denied)
Figure 4

Action Plan

RDBMS - Common to all RDBMS - Performance - Query runs for an unexpected long time

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the issue of queries that run for an unexpected long time, you can observe this by comparing the query start time with the actual time, knowing that the state is active and there is no AIP component used. The following query list the queries in activity:

SELECT * 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE state = 'active'

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS - PostgreSQL - Error - Index IndexName contains unexpected zero page at block XXX

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

PgAdmin raises below error :

An error has occurred
Error: index contains unexpected zero page at block XXX.
HINT: Please REINDEX it

Applicable Platform

Platform or	Yes/No
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

N/A

Action Plan

Some times while creating schema if the ServMan is closed abruptly due to some reason (say system restart), the schema is not created correctly.
Also with abnormal closing of ServMan, index gets corrupt and that is why it raises above error to REINDEX the index

RDBMS Information - CAST Storage Service - Exporting CSS Database

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

To export the database of your CASTStorageService:

Please open command prompt.
Go to CAST Installation directory.

For example: “C:\Program Files\CAST\7.0.1 “

Run the below command on command prompt.

C:\Program Files\CAST\7.0.1>CSSBackup.exe -schema <schema_name> -password CastAIP -file <path_and_name_of_backup_file.cssdmp> -log <path_and_name_of_log_file.log>

<Schema_name> by the name user owner of the Schema

RDBMS Information - Common to all RDBMS - Collation Definitions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The physical storage of character strings in a database is controlled by collations. A collation specifies the bit patterns that represent each character and the rules by which characters are sorted and compared.
For CAST two aspects of collations are relevant: the character set and case-sensivity. This document covers case-sensivity.
Case-sensivity is the consequence of the sort order of the collation. The sort order defines in which order characters are sorted by the database.
The following character map defines a case-sensitive sort order. Charactes are sorted in the order they appear in the map.
! " # $ % & ’ ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
{ | }
~
Ç ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å É æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ø £ Ø × ?
á í ó ú ñ Ñ ª º ¿ ® ¬ ½ ¼ ¡ « » ? ? ? ? ? Á Â À © ? ? ? ? ¢ ¥ ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ã Ã ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ¤ ð Ð Ê Ë È ? Í Î Ï ? ? ? ? ¦ Ì ?
Ó ß Ô Ò õ Õ µ þ Þ Ú Û Ù ý Ý ¯ ´ ± ? ¾ ¶ § ÷ ¸ ° ¨ - ¹ ³ ² ?
The following character map excerpt defines a case-insensitive sort order. All characters that are linked by an equal sign (=) have the same sort precedence:
! " # $ % & ’ ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
@ A=Á=Â=À=Ã=Ä=Å=Æ=a=â=ä=à=å=a=æ=á B=b C=Ç=c=ç D=d [ … ]

RDBMS Information - PostgreSQL - Checking missing statistics on a schema

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides the method to check the missing statistics on a schema.

For more information, refer to:

For 8.3 : Official documentation (RDBMS)
For 8.2 : Official documentation (RDBMS)
For 8.1 : Official documentation (RDBMS)
For 8.0 : Official documentation (RDBMS)

Applicable Platform

Platform	Yes/No
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

Open pgAdmin3 located in the CastStorageServices\bin installed directory.
Connect to the server and deploy the node database postgres.
Select Sql query item in the tools menu and execute the query below.
To list tables with missing statistics for a selected schema
1. Run the query below which lists tables where statistics has never been ran.

Release Notes - 8.3.15

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Feature Improvements

Technology updates

SAP ABAP

ABAP code previously causing syntax errors during an analysis is now supported. For a full list, see Technology coverage changes in CAST AIP 8.3.x.

User Input Security

Sanitization is no longer defined by simple method names. Now, this sanitization:

is defined by classic blackbox files. These blackbox files are provided by default
is still specialized by technology and quality rule
is specialized for each method parameter

A list of libraries automatically taken in to account for Sanitzation is available in User Input Security - predefined methods.

Release types

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section provides information about release types (alpha/beta/funcrel/longterm) used with official CAST AIP Extensions.

Introduction

When an official CAST AIP Extension is made available for download, various definitions are used to describe the release type of an extension:

alpha
beta
funcrel (i.e.: Functional Release)
longterm (or LTS: Long Term Support)

For example:

Below is a description of these definitions:

Alpha and Beta releases

Official CAST AIP Extensions that have an Alpha or Beta release type can be described as follows:

Report Center - Crash

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to crashes while using Report Center. -

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check if you have provided correct KB Name in the field Knowledge Base name as shown below -
If you have provided the correct KB name then Check in the Report Center logs for any errors that could explain the issue. You can refer to this page to help yourself on where to search for Report Center logs - CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs . If there are errors then please contact CAST Technical Support with relevant input.
If there are no errors explaining the issue then get the crash dump file by following the below steps.
1. Open Task Manager

Report Center - Information - How to reproduce user issues

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page lists the steps required in reproducing issues for Report Center.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Action plan

Perform the following steps to reproduce issues for Report Center

In order to proceed with the below steps, get the Relevant input: Report Center Component - Relevant Input
Always use a CAST AIP setup installation. For reproducing issues, flat installation is not recommended because the analysis/snapshot may fail. This can be due to files that are missing in the flat installation.
Import the local database as Report Center only works on a local database
Follow the exact steps provided by the user to reproduce the issue. Report Center has several different ways of running reports so it is essential to make sure that you have a detailed set of steps the user has followed

Related Pages

Report Generator - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is HTTPS supported for Report generator and Rest API ?

Report Generator using REST API is compatible and can work with HTTPS protocol. It’s already tested internally (CAST R&D) and with customers who are able to use the REST API and the Report Generator with HTTPS protocol without any issue.

Can I use report generator with a CAST measurement database?

Report Generator is currently not supported for use with a CAST Measurement database.

Report Generator - Generate Reports with UI - Empty lists - Empty Application list

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the problem : Application list is empty in report generator after validating the login password as shown below

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
1.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Configure the RestAPI - set the name of the desired Central Base or Measurement Base
Launch the Report Generator
Try to select any application & see that the list is empty

Action Plan

Report Generator - Generate Reports with UI - Errors - An error occurred during execution

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the error “An error occurred during execution” that occurs while generating report using the GUI as seen in the below screenshot.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
1.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch Report Generator.
Choose the application.
Select the Current & Previous Snapshot.
Select template Execution-summary-sample1.pptx.
Press Generate Report, and you will see the following message “An error occurred during execution” in the right hand side.

Action Plan

Report Generator - Reports - Empty results - Action Plans table is not populated

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page gives solution to the problem where action plan table is not populated with any value after generating report as shown in the below screenshot.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
1.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Deploy RESTAPI and point it to Central Database.
Use Report generator to generate the report using latest 2 snapshots and template - 1- Powerpoint-components-library.pptx
Check that the Action Plan table is empty.

Impact of the Problem

Report Generator - Reports - Inconsistencies - Complexity Level in CAST Engineering Dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

The value for column Artifacts in block CAST_COMPLEXITY_WITH_VOL does not match with that of the dashboard Vendors - Deliverables Acceptance View. Please refer to the below screenshots for more clarity on the issue:

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
1.x	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Run report generator
Connect to REST-API
Choose the template - 2.Word-Components Library
Generate the report
Compare the results on dashboard - frame=FRAME_PORTAL_SLA_VIEW

Impact of the Problem

Report Generator - Reports - Incorrect graphs - TREND TECH DEBT is incorrect with Powerpoint-components-library

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This issue can be reproduced on any application that has Debt Removed in the application. This is how the graph is supposed to look like, the Debt Removed should come in the Negative Axis.

But instead it comes like this:

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
1.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

REST API - Export violations - Fatal Error - Internal Server Error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help to solve the issue of “Internal Server Error” which is a Fatal Error received when exporting the list of violations.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Connect to Rest API
Export violations

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Check if there are objects computed by quality rules but not part of objects scope, for this refer to the following page - SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Objects - How to list objects computed by Quality rules but not part of module
1. If there are objects computed by quality rules but not part of objects scope, then:
  1. Check if there is a prior snapshot deleted after computing the current snapshot, for this refer to SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on snapshots - How to get the history of creation and deletion of snapshots
    1. If yes then perform the following:
      1. Delete the current snapshot
      2. Compute snapshot by skipping analysis (it will take the snapshot ID of the snapshot deleted previously)
      3. Connect to Rest API
      4. Export violationsNote that this issue is fixed in 8.2.13 and 8.3.6
    2. Else contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant Input
2. Else if there are no objects computed by quality rules but not part of objects scope then contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant Input

REST API - Information - How to Reproduce Rest API issues

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page lists the prerequisites , entities involved and steps to reproduce customer issues related to RestAPI.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Check if you have all the Entities Involved in reproducing the issue
If yes then follow the steps given under Set up the environment to launch the Rest API
Enter the URI whose results are incorrect / inconsistent and click on Submit. Identify the query leading to the issue using the steps given in the page, start from Step7 - Report Generator - Information - How to identify SQL query related to a specific block in the report generator

Entities Involved in reproducing the issue

Databases (Central Database or Measurement Database)
This is fetched by Sherlock if the option Export CAST Bases is checked - <Shelock.zip>\Backup\
RestAPI war
This can be found in the CAST Installation folder - < CAST Installation folder > \WARS\CAST-RestAPI.war

Set up the environment to launch the Rest API

Import the Central/Measurement Database on support server
Deploy the CAST-RestAPI.war, see Installing and configuring the CAST-RestAPI.war for more information
Activate the Show SQL traces by following the steps in the page Health Dashboard - Information - How to activate SQL traces on AAD and RestAPI logs

Notes / Comments

RPC - About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

About

CAST provides an About dialog box that displays technical information about:

the application module name, together with its current version and build number
the addresses and contact details of the main CAST Offices
the connectivity layer in use
the machine identification number
the host name

Report button

RPC - Application Specific INI File Options

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Application Specific INI File Options

This page describes how to add various parameters to the RCENTER.INI file (located in your %APPDATA%\CAST\CAST<Version_Number> directory after installing CAST Products). These parameters add supplementary features to the application.

None at present.

RPC - Changes to CAST .INI files

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Changes to CAST .INI files

RPC - Common Settings tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Common Settings tab

Tools > Options > Common settings


Connect with default profile at start	Use this option to automatically connect with the settings defined in your default connection Profile when you launch the application. See Launching for more information.

RPC - Connection

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Connection

This application is a report generation tool and, as such, it provides a means to extract technical information from the Analysis Service in the form of HTML based reports. Your Analysis Service will be installed on any supported CAST Storage Service, Microsoft or Oracle server (please refer to the Release Notes for more information on supported versions).
You therefore need to connect to the server that contains your Analysis Service using a login name and password that have sufficient permissions to access it.

RPC - Create a report on flagged and locked objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Create a report on flagged and locked objects

This application enables you to run a specific one shot report to find out which objects stored in the Knowledge Base are either Flagged or Locked.

To do so:

Click Help then select Objects Information from the drop down menu
Select either Flagged Objects or Locked Objects as appropriate

According to your choice, a specific query is then run on the entire Knowledge Base. Any objects that fulfil either criteria will be returned by the server and displayed in a proprietary report:

RPC - Create Header Wizard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Create Header Wizard

The Create Header Wizard enables you to create headers and tags for your Reports. Headers are used to determine how to display and how to use the Report result attained by the server.

The Tag Wizard can only be launched from the Template Management dialog box by clicking the Create Header button.

The Wizard contains five steps, each enabling you to enter the information required to create a header. In each step you will find the text boxes and drop down list boxes needed to create a header, as well as a brief explanation of what the item does.

RPC - Creating Connection Profiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Creating Connection Profiles

In order to establish a connection with your chosen SQL server, you need to create a profile. This can be done with the Add/Edit Connection Profile dialog box.

To open this dialog box:

Click File > New located on the menu bar.
In the Open Profile Connection dialog box click Add.

Creating a Profile

To create a profile:

Enter the required information in the appropriate fields
Click the Test button to verify that the connection to the server can be established
Click OK to save the Profile.

When you have entered all the required information, tested the connection and clicked OK, the Profile will be stored by the Application. In addition, the Profile will be automatically displayed in the Open Profile Connection dialog box.

RPC - Launching a Report on Specific Objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching a Report on Specific Objects

There are several ways to launch the Report Wizard:

You can click Build a Report located on the menu bar and then select On Specific Objects… from the drop down menu.
You can use the shortcut key - CTRL+Y
You can use the button located on the toolbar.
You can launch it from the Report Templates Management dialog box, by clicking the Wizard button.

In all cases, the Report Wizard will be launched, starting with the Object Selection page.

RPC - Launching a Report on View

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching a Report on View

To launch the Report on a View:

you can click Build a Report located on the menu bar and then select On a View… from the drop down menu.
You can use the button located on the toolbar.

The Report on a View Wizard will then be launched, starting with the Model Selection page.

Using the Wizard

RPC - Launching a Report with Diagnostic

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching a Report with Diagnostic

Please note that this feature is a legacy feature and is maintained only for compatibility with previous CAST versions. CAST now provides the CAST Health and Engineering Dashboards to help enforce rules and standards in an organization. Please contact CAST for more information about this.

To launch a Report with Diagnostic:

You can click Build a Report located on the menu bar and then select Report with Diagnostic… from the drop down menu.
You can use the button located on the toolbar.

The Diagnostics Wizard will then be launched, starting with Select the Diagnostic.

RPC - Launching a Report with Predefined

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Launching a Report with Predefined

To launch a Report with Predefined:

You can click Build a Report located on the menu bar and then select With Predefined… from the drop down menu as shown on the right.
You can use the button located on the toolbar.

The Report with Predefined will then be launched, starting with the Template Selection page.

Using the Wizard

Navigating through the steps in the wizard is achieved using the Back and Next buttons. On all pages, the Cancel button aborts the configuration without carrying out any modifications.

RPC - Log Window

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Log Window

The Log Window will launch automatically when you first start the application. This window logs any messages or error messages sent from the server or the application. This logging of messages can help localize a problem very quickly. CAST can also use the log file to diagnose serious errors.

How does it work?

RPC - Report Concept

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Report Concept

HTML Reports can offer you huge flexibility when creating automatic documentation for the Knowledge Base:

the possibility of reporting information directly from the Knowledge Base
the possibility of personalizing reports by using a Cascading Style Sheet
the possibility of navigating through the report by using a navigation frame
the possibility of creating a report using other reports
the possibility of sharing a report with another user
the possibility of saving a personal report
the possibility of creating a report in HTML compatible format which can be used on an intranet or the internet without modification

An HTML Report that is generated by the application is based on the cascading level concept, in other words each level is equivalent to the chapters in a book. To build your report, therefore, you must describe your data by levels.

Run the CAST Security setup

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Info

Summary: This section explains how to create therun the CAST Security setup i.e. the installation of a dedicated workstation with all CAST Security end-user applications.

Prerequisites


✅	Ensure that the target workstation meets all hardware and operating system requirements (see the CAST AIP requirements, they are identical: Appendix - CAST Administration workstation installation and hardware requirements)
✅	Your login requires local “Administrator” privileges to run the setup. In addition, the setup requires elevated permissions and therefore needs to be run using the “Run as Administrator” option.
✅	The setup is delivered in a ZIP file. Make sure you have the required ZIP file ready and unzipped.
✅	Make sure that you disable your anti-virus software prior to launching the CAST AIP installer.

Actions

Right click the setup.bat file located in the folder created during theunzip process:

SAML authentication

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to configure the Console for SAML authentication in 1.x.

Note that the authentication mechanism has changed in **≥**2.x, see Configure authentication and roles using Keycloak - v. 2.x.

Prerequisites

Before you can configure the Console to use SAML authentication, the following prerequisites must already be in place:

JDK

Ensure that you are using the following versios of JDK for both the Front End Console package and the Back End Node package:

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This section deals with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates. SSL is a network protocol that allows for secure communication between two parties. This section provides some information on certificates used in SSL

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
AIP Console	✅
Dashboards	✅
Imaging	✅
CSS	✅
Highlight	✅

Details

See the sections below for information on Certificates:

What is a Certificate?
Types of Certificates
Certificate Format
Certificate Authority
Self-Signed Certificate
Certificate Chain

Details

Security Dashboard - Action Plan Recommendation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This page provides information about the Action Plan Recommendationfeature.

Note

This feature is currently in BETA.

Introduction

The Action Plan Recommendation is a feature designed to help you automatically build an Action Plan to improve the score of a chosen Health Factor (Business Criteria). In short, for a given Health Factor, you can configure one of the “remediation targets” listed below and the Action Plan Recommendation will automatically suggest a list of violations to be added to the Action Plan for future correction. The correction of the suggested violations will match the desired remediation target when a new snapshot is generated and therefore improve the grade of the chosen Health Factor. Available remediation targets:

Security Dashboard - Connection - login - logout

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This documentation section provides the following information:

How to connect and login to the Security Dashboard
What sort of information is displayed in the dashboard
A simple explanation of the dashboard interface

Info

If you need to know more about how to deploy the Security Dashboard, please see: Deploy the CAST Security Dashboard.

Connecting to the Security Dashboard

To connect to the Security Dashboard, browse to the URL provided by your CAST Administrator. This will usually be in the following format:

Security Dashboard - Violations - Incorrect number of violations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to understand the issue where violation count is not matching between Health measures section and Technical criteria section of the dashboard as shown below:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Deploy and configure security dashboard
Observe inconsistency in violation number

Action Plan

If you observe the issue where violation count is not matching between Health measures section and Technical criteria section then please check the below points:

Server Manager - Component Reinstall - View is not getting created after component reinstall

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to troubleshoot the issue where Server Manager is not able to create the particular view/table even after performing component reinstall.

Observed in CAST AIP Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch Server Manager
Select particular schema(KB/CB)
Right click and perform Component Reinstall

Action Plan

Below steps will help you in case any of the view from KB is missing in your KB and this is impacting your Snapshot. As an example consider the view cdv_javadoc

Server Manager - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Server Manager

Where is the ServMan Connection Profile file stored?

ServMan connection profile is stored in CWSIProfileConnection.INI which can be found under : C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\CAST\CAST\7.X

Component Uninstall

How to delete Measure schema?

If there is a requirement to delete the measure schema (mostly because it is not being used or there are no plans of using it), then it can be deleted directly from pgAdmin. It can also be deleted from Server Manager with the help of “Component Uninstall” feature.

Server Manager - Install Database - Command Line - Problems using the System account for automation with server manager

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When using the system account for automation with server manager, the server manager Command Line Interface (CLI) will not successfully work.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Setup automation with Server Manager CLI through the System Account.

Impact of the Problem

The impact of the problem on the analysis or the dashboard is : Server Manager actions will not be done automatically

Server Manager - Install Database - Error - Could not create Java Virtual Machine

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

While installing new database in server manager it fails with below error:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Open server manager.
Install database.

Action Plan

The issue occurs because enough contiguous memory is not there to create the Management Database. This memory is required to execute the JVM that is supposed to run the CAST-MS CLI that will populate the Management Database (Metamodel, Assessment Model, some table creations). When this issue occurs, the Local and Central databases are already created.

Server Manager - Launching Server Manager - Error - Duplicated Package information

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When starting Server Manger especially after deploying an official CAST UA and following the instructions to copy the UA files to the ProgramData area, you notice the following message in the server manager log:

Duplicated Package information: XXXX

and server manager will not allow you to proceed.

A specific example would be if you had deployed the CAST PHP UA and you then see the specific message:

Duplicated Package information: ADGVIEWER_UA_CoE_PHP

Server Manager - Managing Extensions - Error - ExtendAssessmentModels - java lang NullPointerException

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page assists with the error you may face when updating extension step fails in the ExtendAssessmentModels step

Below is the error stack

Running action: Extend Assessment Models with new metrics.
[Fatal Error] :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.
[Fatal Error] :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.
[Fatal Error] :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.
java.lang.NullPointerException

You can see more on installing extensions in the documentation here: Install an extension
You can see more on the creating of extensions in the documentation here: Create a new extension

Observed in CAST Version

Server Manager - Update Database - Fatal Error - Another Server Manager program is currently modifying or deleting the selected base

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

During the update of bases (either migration or updating the extension), after few minutes, the server manager crashes with the following error.

Another Server Manager program is currently modifying or deleting the selected base
If no other Server Manager is running, you may unlock the base using contextual menu <Troubleshooting/Remove Locks>

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

Perform the below steps:

Restore the bases before you update.
Try to remove the locks on the bases, for this refer the page Server Manager - Remove Locks and then try again to update the extensions, if you are still getting the error then go to the next step.
Check the server status of PgAdmin. If any procedure/query is running on the base, then stop it and try to update again, if still does not work go to next step.
Check task manager to see if we have any server manager session already running in the server if yes kill it and try again,
If the above steps do not work ,contact CAST Technical Support with below Relevant Input

Relevant input

Sherlock (CAST Support Tool (CST) - alias Sherlock) with options Export Logs, Export Database Backup
Explanation about the problem and supporting screenshots

Notes/Comments

Server Manager - Update Database - Fatal Error - Central base fails to update - duplicate key value violates unique constraint efp traninf idx

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page outlines the issue with the Central base upgrade which fails while migrating using Server Manager.

Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "efp_traninf_idx".
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: DETAIL: Key (snapshot_id, object_id)=(26, 669831) already exists..
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: CONTEXT: SQL statement "Insert into EFP_Tran_Info.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		( Snapshot_ID, Object_ID, Object_Checksum ).
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 	Select.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		T.SNAPSHOT_ID, T.OBJECT_ID, F.OBJECT_CHECKSUM.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 	From.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		DSS_OBJECT_INFO F, DSS_LINK_INFO L, DSS_OBJECT_INFO T.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 	Where.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		T.SNAPSHOT_ID				= I_SNAPSHOT_ID.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		And F.SNAPSHOT_ID			= T.SNAPSHOT_ID.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		And L.SNAPSHOT_ID			= T.SNAPSHOT_ID.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		And T.OBJECT_TYPE_ID		= 30002.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		And L.LINK_TYPE_ID			= 11002.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		And L.PREVIOUS_OBJECT_ID	= T.OBJECT_ID.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		And L.NEXT_OBJECT_ID		= F.OBJECT_ID.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: 		And not exists (select 1 from EFP_Tran_Exclusion E where E.Object_ID = F.OBJECT_ID)".
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: PL/pgSQL function apmcfp_compute_tran_checksum(integer) line 14 at SQL statement.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: SQL statement "SELECT APMCFP_COMPUTE_TRAN_CHECKSUM (I_SNAPSHOT_ID)".
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: PL/pgSQL function apmcfp_compute_efp_checksum(integer) line 6 at PERFORM.
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	SQL Error: PL/pgSQL function mig_efp_checksum() line 26 at assignment (Severity 1, Msg No 1).
Error	MODULMSG ; Job execution	<CAST INSTALLATION FOLDER>\installscripts\caststorageservice\efp_central\MIGR\V81\Mig_Compute_Checksum.sql

The issue is raised due to an inconsistant and duplicate data in the table DSS_OBJECT_INFO for object type 30002 (APM_IFPUG_UserTransaction) or object type 30001 (APM_IFPUG_DataFunction).

Server Manager - Update Database - Fatal Error - Local base fails to update - Category or type defines an invalid inheritance relation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the issue where migration of local base fails with the following error:

Category or type 'CAST_AspDotNet_AnyOperation' defines an invalid inheritance relation : category 'CAST_WebService_AnyOperation' is unknown in 'C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\Extensions\com.castsoftware.html5.1.6.0-funcrel\configuration\Languages\HTML5\HTML5ForDotnetMetaModel.xml'

In the above example, the issue occured for the Extension HTML5.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Download an extension without using the Extension Downloader.
Migrate your triplets to a new service pack.
Local base will fail with the error.

Action Plan

Server Manager - Update Database - Fatal Error - Management base fails to update - Missing Translation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to solve the issue of

management database failing to upgrade due to the error ‘Missing Translation’

as seen in the error message below from server manager

Error during Cast-MS command execution (error code: 1000).\r\nThe logging framework was not initialized in the current thread. A default logger will be used
Missing translation for id Input received: null
Missing translation: Input received: null
Using arguments:
installAutoDiscover
-mode: POST_MIGRATION
-connectionString: LIBPQ:localhost:2282
-connectionSchema: castms
-connectionUser: operator
-connectionPassword: ******
Log file : E:\CAST\LOGS/CAST-MS-20181002-163905.log.txt
Running action: Auto configures CAST-MS after installation or migration
Error: Analysis Service cannot be used with current CAST-MS because of version incompatibility
CAST-MS version 8.3.6.1
Analysis Service version 8.0.0.1
Please use CAST Update Tool to upgrade the management base to version 8.3.6.1
Error: Analysis Service cannot be used with current CAST-MS because of version incompatibility
CAST-MS version 8.3.6.1
Analysis Service version 8.0.0.1
Please use CAST Update Tool to upgrade the management base to version 8.3.6.1
Return value: 1000

More information on upgrading CAST including updating the databases can be seen in the documentation here: Upgrade process

Setup - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

We would like to install 2 UA Pack on the same CAST Installaiton (EGL & PL1). Does it work or do we need 2 different environments or 2 different CAST Installations?

Yes it is possible to install 2 UA pack on the same CAST installation as long as it is 2 packs on 2 different langages

Setup - Installation - Fatal Error - Error during execution of the command vcredist2010 x64

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page explains how to solve the issue related to the popup error message that occurs during an installation of CAST AIP :

Error during execution of the command:
%TEMP%/{GUID}\vcredist2010_x64.exe/Q/log
%TEMP%/cast_vcredist2010_x64.txt

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	N/A

Step by Step Scenario

Install major version of CAST AIP.
Uninstall the same version of CAST AIP you have just installed.
Install again the same version of CAST AIP → The issue occurs.

Action Plan

Setup - Installation - Information - Setup intercepted by SmartScreen on Windows machines

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

In rare circumstances when launching the CAST AIP setup on a Windows machine which has the SmartScreen feature built into it and enabled, a SmartScreen message may be displayed stating that “Windows protected your PC”.

This means the SmartScreen feature has flagged CAST AIP as an “unrecognized app”.

This could occur with any release of CAST AIP, but only on Windows machines where SmartScreen is built in (Windows 8.1 and above) and enabled.

Setup - Uninstall - Information - Complete Uninstall of installed CAST Version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Clean UN-installation of CAST Version

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

After Complete uninstall of Cast Version (Sample Scenario Cast 7.2.0) , it has been seen that many directories are left in C:\Program Files (x86)\CAST\CAST\7.2.
Which may create problem in any future installation of Cast Version or after applying SP on installed Cast Version.

Setup - Uninstallation - Error - filelockcheck - Bad path for find command

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When uninstalling CAST AIP, the following error is seen during filelockcheck.bat:

Further logs show the error:

launch_cmd is launching command _C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp{1E627851-8D98-486B-B041-A0A9F4BF4AC5}\fileLockCheck.bat_ with parameters:
_“C:\Program Files\CAST\8.3"_
File Locked: Bad path for find command, it should be : C:\Windows\System32\find.exe: PATH variable is not good
SEVERE_ERROR
launch_cmd returns from C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp{1E627851-8D98-486B-B041-A0A9F4BF4AC5}\fileLockCheck.bat ERRORLEVEL=1

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Sherlock - Release Notes - Version 8.3.17

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This version is embedded in the CAST AIP package.(To launch it, go to Start > All Programs > CAST 8.3 > bin > CAST Support Tool).
It is compatible with all CAST AIP Versions

List of changes:

SLK ID	Issue Type	Summary of the issue
SLK-583	Improvement	Sherlock should fetch the “plugins” folder present inside the delivery folder

Siebel - Information - How to avoid analysis of superfluous Siebel Workflow and children

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on how to remove Siebel workflow objects from the analysis as it can result in the analysis getting stuck on the same UAX file for a couple of hours as the Siebel Work Flow Objects consist of several children.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Action Plan

In some occasion, here with Siebel 8.1.1.10, the number of Siebel Workflow extracted is OK, but some of them got insane number of children.

Source Extractor - ABAP - Installation - Display issue - ABAP Extractor shows blank fields when launched

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to solve the issue of blank configuration fields in the GUI which may occur when we install SAP Extractor. This blocks the user from adding any configuration to perform the extraction.

For more information, refer to:

Official Documentation For 8.4**: CAST SAP Extractor NG - Documentation - 8.4.x**
Official Documentation For 8.3: CAST SAP Extractor NG - ABAP source code extraction - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x

Source Extractor - ABAP - Run extraction - Fatal Error - ABAP Programming Error Timeout

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page explains how to deal with the error message :

CATEGORY : ABAP Programming Error

Runtime Errors : Timeout

Figure 1

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

In SAP system, when the error occurs, open the Runtime Error descritpion to identify the rootcause of the issue
Go to the sections Trigger Location of Runtime Rrror and Source Code Extract as shown in the below screenshot :
Figure 2
If the Program that is failing is /INVY/SAPLSAP_EXTRACTOR_FGR:
1. If the row that is showed in the source code extract section is If lv_count(*) lt lc_max_int., as shown in the below screenshot :

Source Extractor - PeopleSoft - Connection Step - ERROR - An error has occurred during command processing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page gives solution to the problem where the PeopleSoft extraction fails with the below error:

An error has occurred during command processing
java.lang.NullPointerException:
 at com.castsoftware.extractor.decoders.PeopleSoftCodeDecoder.setCodeId(PeopleSoftCodeDecoder.java:204)
 at com.castsoftware.extractor.decoders.PeopleSoftCodeIndexRecorder.record(PeopleSoftCodeIndexRecorder.java:21)
 at com.castsoftware.extractor.decoders.PeopleSoftCodeIndexRecorder.record(PeopleSoftCodeIndexRecorder.java:1)
 at com.castsoftware.extractor.decoders.AbstractRecorder.decode(AbstractRecorder.java:47)
 at com.castsoftware.extractor.exporter.IdentificationGroupExporter.exportType
Error : 2001

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Connect to peoplesoft schema via DMT
Click on package

Impact of the problem on Analysis Results and Dashboard

Source Extractor - PeopleSoft - Extraction Step - Performance issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page covers performance issues you may face during PeopleSoft Extraction.

See the following page to locate the log files and to examine them for any error: CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

Documentation for the PeopleSoft extension can be found here: PeopleSoft

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Run the PeopleSoft Extraction.
The Extraction is running without ending after ages.

Action Plan

Source Extractor - Siebel - Error - Signer information does not match signer information of other classes in the same package

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Below error occurs during Siebel extraction

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Run packaging for Siebel castextraction file.
Extraction step fails with error.

Error Log -

java.lang.SecurityException:class "com.castsoftware.dmt.extractor.squirrel.SquirrelExtractor"'s signer information does not match signer information of other classes in the same package
at java.lang.ClassLoader.checkCerts(ClassLoader.java:891)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.preDefineClass(ClassLoader.java:661)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:754)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:-2)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:352)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(ClassLoader.java:-2)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:756)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:-2)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:352)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
at com.castsoftware.util.ClassHelper.loadClass(ClassHelper.java:132)
at com.castsoftware.util.ClassHelper.getInstance(ClassHelper.java:155)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.cli.settings.ExtractorEngineBuilder.buildExtractionEngine(ExtractorEngineBuilder.java:67)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.processDMTCommand(Extract.java:77)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.cli.AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.process(AbstractDeliveryEngineCommandLine.java:345)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1324)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$4.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1305)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:386)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.parseAndRun(CommandLineApplication.java:1383)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.access$100(CommandLineApplication.java:37)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1183)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$2.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1176)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:386)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.launch(CommandLineApplication.java:1175)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1107)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication$1.call(CommandLineApplication.java:1100)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.execute(Logging.java:527)
at com.castsoftware.util.logger.Logging.runInNewContext(Logging.java:415)
at com.castsoftware.cli.CommandLineApplication.run(CommandLineApplication.java:1099)
at com.castsoftware.dmt.engine.extraction.cli.Extract.main(Extract.java:160)

Impact on Analysis Results and Dashboard

Source Extractor - SQL PLSQL - Connection step

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page provides the approach to troubleshoot the connection issues you can experience while running the SQL PLSQL extractors.Source Extractors

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check that the JDBC url used is following the below format :
1. For SID : jdbc:oracle:thin:@::. For instance : jdbc:oracle:thin:@TKBDBSERVER:1521:TKBSID
2. For Service : jdbc:oracle:thin:@:/ . For instance : jdbc:oracle:thin:@TKBDBSERVER:1521/TKBService
If the JDBC url is correct, you must unsure that the TCP/IP connection protocole is enabled on the Oracle Server:

Source Extractor - SQL PLSQL - Error - IO exception Socket read timed out

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides solution to the PL/SQL extraction error :

Extracting: Oracle system check constraints on tables.. Extraction error: Io exception: Socket read timed out
on Query
——
Extraction error: Closed Connection

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	❌
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	❌
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Source Extractor - SQL PLSQL - Non Fatal Error - Extraction error - ORA-01427 single-row subquery returns more than one row

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you to solve issues related to the below Extraction error message that occurs during PL/SQL extraction :

2017-12-11 07:50:40.036 - Extraction error: ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row

2017-12-11 07:50:50.411 - Extraction error: ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row

2017-12-11 07:51:00.785 - Extraction error: ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row

2017-12-11 07:51:11.190 - Extraction error: ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row

Source Extractor - SQL TSQL - Error - SSO Failed Native SSPI library not loaded Check the java library path system property

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When using a source extractor from a TSQL database (see the documentation here for more details on this functionality: CAST Database Extractor), the following error is seen during the extraction:

I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded. Check the java.library.path system property. This is shown in the screenshot below:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step Scenario

Source Extractors - ABAP Extractor - Information - Checking the CAST Extractor 8 version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Regarding the ABAP Extractor 8 developed by CAST 7digits, this page explains how to check the version used to extract the SAP application.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅
8.2	✅
8.1	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

For the Source Extractor 8.0, the version used is defined on the top of the log file Extraction that is embeded in the Extraction zip.

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Checking and removing corruptions - Ghost technologies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This pages will help you to identify ghost technologies and will help you to remove them if it is there.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

Run the query to identify the ghost technology.

SELECT dli1.next_object_id AS TECHNO_ID, 
 dli1.snapshot_id, 
 dli2.next_object_id 
FROM dss_objects dos 
 JOIN dss_link_info dli1 
 ON dos.object_type_id = -102 
 AND dli1.link_type_id = 2 
 AND dli1.previous_object_id = dos.object_id 
 LEFT JOIN dss_object_info doi 
 ON doi.object_id = dli1.next_object_id 
 AND doi.snapshot_id = dli1.snapshot_id 
 LEFT JOIN dss_link_info dli2 
 ON dli2.previous_object_id = dli1.next_object_id 
 AND dli2.link_type_id = 1 
 AND dli2.snapshot_id = dli1.snapshot_id 
WHERE doi.object_id IS NULL 
ORDER BY dli1.next_object_id

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Data Function - How to list and clean Data Functions that are targeting the same Object

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page provide queries that list and clean Transactions that are targeting the same Object.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

Run the following query in order to install a temporary table:

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE datafunction_object_tmp AS (SELECT object_id, snapshot_id FROM dss_object_info o2 WHERE o2.object_type_id = 30001)

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Quality rule - How to check if a Quality rule is calculated at the application level but not at the union content module and vice versa

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page checks if a Quality rule is present in the application but not present in the union content module and vise versa.The union content module is a technical module that is created when the Full Application mode is selected as a consolidation mode, for more information refer to CMS - Consolidation Settings tab

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Transactions - How to list and clean the objects that are part of Transaction but not part of snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query lists and cleans the objects that are part of the transaction but not part of the snapshot.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT snapshot_id, 
 object_id 
FROM efp_tran_info 
WHERE object_id NOT IN (SELECT object_id 
 FROM dss_object_info)

Query result example

2,665414

Query result interpretation

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on applications - How to get and update the business value of an application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This document provides a query to get or update the business value of an application.

The business value of an application is a parameter used by the Cast Engineering Dashboard to decide the size of the application in the global display of the portfolio data.

Its value is set by the final user, it represents the importance of an application within the business portfolio.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Artifacts - How to get the list of deleted artifacts between two snapshots

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This document provides a query to list the deleted artifacts between two snapshots.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT *
FROM dss_objects
WHERE object_id IN
 ( SELECT DISTINCT cs1.OBJECT_ID
 FROM ADGV_COST_STATUSES cs1,
 DSS_LINKS l ,
 DSS_MODULE_LINKS m
 WHERE m.OBJECT_ID = <APPLICATION_ID> -- here 3
 AND m.SNAPSHOT_ID IN ( <PREVIOUS_SNAPSHOT_ID>, -- here 1
 <NEXT_SNAPSHOT_ID>) -- here 2
 AND l.PREVIOUS_OBJECT_ID = m.MODULE_ID
 AND l.LINK_TYPE_ID = 3
 AND cs1.OBJECT_ID = l.NEXT_OBJECT_ID
 AND cs1.SNAPSHOT_ID = <NEXT_SNAPSHOT_ID> -- here 2
 AND cs1.CHANGE_TYPE = 2
 )

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Data Function - How to check if a Data Function is part of a snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The query checks if a Data Function is part of a snapshot

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT EXISTS
 (
 SELECT 1
 FROM dss_object_info dso
 JOIN dss_objects dob
 ON dso.object_id = dob.object_id
 JOIN dss_snapshots dss
 ON dso.snapshot_id = dss.snapshot_id
 WHERE dob.object_type_id = 30002
 AND dob.object_full_name = 'Data Function full name'
 AND dss.snapshot_name = <'snapshot_name'> )

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on grades - How to get the Health Factor grades for the Snapshot of an Application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This document provides a query to get the Health Factor grades (efficiency, security, robustness, transferability, changeability) for a given Snapshot of an Application.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS3	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT O.OBJECT_NAME AS APPLICATION ,
 S.SNAPSHOT_NAME ,
 T.metric_name AS HEALTH_FACTOR ,
 ROUND(R.metric_num_value,3)AS GRADE
FROM dss_metric_results R,
 dss_metric_types T ,
 dss_snapshots S ,
 dss_objects O
WHERE R.snapshot_id =S.snapshot_id
AND R.metric_id = T.metric_id
AND R.snapshot_id = <SNAPSHOT_ID> -- here 2
AND T.metric_id IN(60011,60012,60013,60014,60016)
AND R.object_id = O.object_id
AND R.object_id = <APPLICATION_ID> --here 3
AND R.metric_value_index = 0

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Indexes - How to get the List of Indexes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This document provides a query to get the list of Indexes in the Central schema. It is useful when you have performance issues during snaphot computation and want to check the integrity of the Central Base. If some indexes are missing, the performance can be seriously degraded.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS	✅

Query for CSS

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Metrics - How to calculate Technical Debt manually

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page will help you to manually calculate the Total Technical Debt for Applications by using two simplified queries to be run on the Central database.

These queries need to be run on the Central base to retrieve the set of parameter values to be used in the formula to calculate the Technical Debt.

With the below outlined queries you will have all the parameter values that you can replace in the formula for corresponding parameters and calculate the Technical Debt manually. “# of low/medium/high severity violations in Application and Module” can be replaced by “Number of Violations” (result of the second query) for “Violation Category” LOW,MEDIUM,HIGH respectively.

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on modules - How to get the ID and the name of Portfolio tree module

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page provide the Portfolio tree module’s ID and name

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT doi.object_id, 
 doi.object_name, 
 doi.object_type_id 
FROM dss_objects doi, 
 dss_object_types dot 
WHERE doi.object_type_id = dot.object_type_id 
AND dot.object_group = 1

Query result example

53;“application_new IFPUG module”;20051
54;“application_new full content_CPP_SUBSET”;107502

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Objects - How to get the number of object type per subset per module and per technology in the application for all snapshots

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page provide you the number of objects type per subset per module and per technology in the application for all snapshots.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT ds.snapshot_name, 
 app.object_full_name AS application_full_name, 
 module.object_full_name AS module_full_name, 
 tech_module.object_full_name AS subset_name, 
 typ.typnam AS object_type, 
 Count(art.object_id) 
FROM dss_objects art 
 INNER JOIN dss_object_info snap_art 
 ON snap_art.object_id = art.object_id 
 INNER JOIN dss_link_info l2 
 ON l2.next_object_id = art.object_id 
 AND l2.link_type_id = 3 
 AND l2.snapshot_id = snap_art.snapshot_id 
 INNER JOIN dss_link_info l1 
 ON l1.next_object_id = l2.previous_object_id 
 AND l1.link_type_id = 1 
 AND l1.snapshot_id = l2.snapshot_id 
 INNER JOIN dss_link_info l0 
 ON l0.next_object_id = l1.previous_object_id 
 AND l0.link_type_id = 1 
 AND l0.snapshot_id = l1.snapshot_id 
 INNER JOIN dss_objects module 
 ON module.object_id = l1.previous_object_id 
 AND module.object_type_id = 20000 
 /* subsets*/ 
 JOIN dss_objects tech_module 
 ON tech_module.object_id = l2.previous_object_id 
 /* functional module */ 
 INNER JOIN dss_object_info snap_module 
 ON snap_module.object_id = module.object_id 
 AND snap_module.snapshot_id = snap_art.snapshot_id 
 INNER JOIN dss_objects app 
 ON app.object_id = l0.previous_object_id 
 AND app.object_type_id = -102 
 /* application */ 
 INNER JOIN dss_object_info snap_app 
 ON snap_app.object_id = app.object_id 
 AND snap_app.snapshot_id = snap_art.snapshot_id 
 INNER JOIN typ 
 ON typ.idtyp = art.object_type_id 
 JOIN dss_snapshots ds 
 ON ds.snapshot_id = snap_app.snapshot_id 
GROUP BY ds.snapshot_name, 
 app.object_full_name, 
 module.object_full_name, 
 tech_module.object_full_name, 
 typ.typnam 
ORDER BY ds.snapshot_name, 
 app.object_full_name, 
 module.object_full_name, 
 tech_module.object_full_name

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on quality rules - How to get the total check of a quality rule per module and per snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query get the total check of a quality rule per module and per snapshot.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT dob.object_full_name, 
 dmr.snapshot_id, 
 Sum(dmr.metric_num_value) 
FROM dss_metric_results DMR, 
 dss_module_links DML, 
 dss_objects DOB 
WHERE dml.object_type_id = 20000 
 AND dml.module_id = dmr.object_id 
 AND dml.snapshot_id = dmr.snapshot_id 
 AND dmr.metric_id = <Quality rule ID>
 AND metric_value_index = 2 
 AND dmr.object_id = DOB.object_id 
GROUP BY dml.object_id, 
 dmr.metric_value_index, 
 dmr.snapshot_id, 
 dob.object_full_name 
ORDER BY 2, 
 1

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on snapshots - How to check the status of a snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The query will result the status of a snapshot

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

Check the value of the column ‘SNAPSHOT_STATUS’.

The values of this column could be 0 or 1 or 2. Their description is as under

If SNAPSHOT_STATUS = 0, then the snapshot is empty.

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on source code - How to get source code of an object

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The purpose of this page is to provide a query which can provide the source code for a given object fullname

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

Run the query below on the central database replacing XXX by part of the object fullname (case sensitive field):

SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - SQL Queries on Transactions - How to get the effort complexity for functional artifacts

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The purpose of this query is to provide the effort complexity for technical artifacts.

This view in TCC provides this information as well

Here’s more information on this topic in the documentation: TCC - Enhancement node - AEP Details

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

This query requires a snapshot_id which can be obtained here: SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on snapshots - How to get the ID and name of a snapshot for a given application

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Corruptions - Corruptions on datafunctions - How to find the DataFunction ID of a merged item without a merge root or when its merge root is not a Data Function

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The SQL query in this page lists the Data Function id being a merge child without a merge mother or its merge mother is not a Data Function

The Data Function being a merge root is the data function that has been merged with others, and it is the root of the merge, so it appears on the dashboard and TCC
The Data Function being a merged item is the data function that has been merged as a item of another one, so it does not appear in the dashboard and TCC

Applicable CAST Version

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on artifacts - How to get the list of artifacts of the type database

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The SQL query in this page lists the artifacts of the type - database.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT *
FROM Typ
WHERE idtyp IN
 ( SELECT DISTINCT ObjTyp
 FROM Keys
 WHERE IDKEY IN
 ( SELECT object_id
 FROM dssapp_sql_artifacts
 )
 )

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Data Function - How to check if there is custom function point on Data Functions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query returns the custom function point calibration on Data Functions

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	(coche)
8.2.x	(coche)
8.1.x	(coche)
8.0.x	(coche)

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	(coche)
Microsoft SQL Server	(coche)
CSS2	(coche)

Query for CSS

SELECT count (1)
from dss_datafunction
where user_fp_value is not null
or user_isinput is not null

Query result example

Query result interpretation

The query returns the number of customized Data Functions

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Installation - How to check if a TCC tool kit is installed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The query checks if there is an installed TCC tool kit and returns the version of the tool

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT version 
FROM sys_package_version 
WHERE package_name = 'TCK_LOCAL';

Query result example

1.7.1.0".

Query result interpretation

The query returns the version of the installed TCC tool kit

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on jobs - How to get the names of jobs which analyzes a given file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

To get the name(s) of job(s) which analyses any file, execute the following query on the KB:

SELECT DISTINCT Job.keynam as Job_Name, 
 obj.keynam as Object_Name 
FROM objpro 
 JOIN keys Job 
 ON job.idkey = idpro 
 JOIN keys Obj 
 ON idobj = Obj.idkey 
 AND lower(Obj.keynam) LIKE lower('%file_name%')

Example if you want to know the name of the job which analyses the file “FRAMESPECLIST.CC”, the query will be:

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Links - How to count the Links in Knowledge Base

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The query retrieve the number of links on the Knowledge base.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT Count(*) 
FROM acc

Query result example

31385

Query result interpretation

Number of links on the knowledge base.

Query for Oracle

SELECT Count(*) 
FROM acc

Query result example

31385

Query result interpretation

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on metrics and diagnostics - How to check which Metrics computation option has been calculated

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

Thus query will help you to check which Metrics computation option has been calculated.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT CASE 
 WHEN infval = 0 THEN 'SPA Metrics computation: no metrics computation' 
 WHEN infval = 1 THEN 'SPA Metrics computation: all metrics' 
 WHEN infval = 2 THEN 
'SPA Metrics computation: all metrics except copy/paste and commented code' 
ELSE 'N/A' 
END 
FROM anainf ai 
 JOIN anajob aj 
 ON aj.idjob = ai.idjob 
 AND aj.jobtyp = 3001 
WHERE ai.inftyp = 1 
 AND ai.infsubtyp = 31;

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Module - Module Content Summary and Detail - How to retrieve the number of objects per module and the object details

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The queries on this page provide information on the Module content summary and detail similar to the Module Content seen in CAST-MS (associated documentation for this is here: CMS - User Defined Module editor). One query provides the number of objects per type, per subset and per module in a local base, which can be done based on an individual module. The details of the objects in a module is also shown in another query.

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - How to set Objects as external so as to ignore them

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

In order to ignore some objects in the snapshot computation, you can set them as external ones in the KB. So these objects will not be taken into account in the computation of the metrics grades neither of in the computation of technical size values to set object(s) as external

PLEASE NOTE: THE QUERIES BELOW ARE ONLY VALID IN CAST AIP 8.3.36 AND BELOW. FOR CAST AIP 8.3.37 AND ABOVE YOU MUST MODIFY THE QUERIES AS FOLLOWS:

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on PeopleSoft technology - discrimination time

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query returns the history of different discrimination steps as well as there consumption time

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

select * 
from psoft_log
order by 2 asc

Query result example

“Update metrics: start”;“2020-11-05 15:13:53.623827”
“Update metrics: end”;“2020-11-05 15:14:06.430759”
“Discrimination data - Start”;“2020-11-05 15:14:25.658619”
“Discrimination data - LastUpdatedBy”;“2020-11-05 15:14:25.662885”
“Discrimination data - Checksum”;“2020-11-05 15:14:34.4924”
“Discrimination data - Objects”;“2020-11-05 15:14:35.125382”
“Discrimination data - Field props”;“2020-11-05 15:15:07.997835”
“Discrimination data - Statistics”;“2020-11-05 15:15:10.875434”
“Discrimination data - End”;“2020-11-05 15:15:10.877648”
“Discrimination - Start”;“2020-11-05 15:15:34.362163”
“Discrimination - End”;“2020-11-05 17:33:50.590463”
“DiscriminationEnd - Start”;“2020-11-05 17:33:50.592742”
“DiscriminationEnd - End”;“2020-11-05 17:35:11.035854”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - Start”;“2020-11-05 17:35:11.036152”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - FieldType”;“2020-11-05 17:35:11.036724”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - End”;“2020-11-05 17:35:13.074781”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2020-11-05 17:35:13.076138”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2020-11-05 17:35:17.250337”
“Update metrics: start”;“2020-11-11 03:05:16.353862”
“Update metrics: end”;“2020-11-11 03:05:28.999172”
“Discrimination data - Start”;“2020-11-11 03:05:34.843589”
“Discrimination data - LastUpdatedBy”;“2020-11-11 03:05:34.849242”
“Discrimination data - Checksum”;“2020-11-11 03:05:44.506923”
“Discrimination data - Objects”;“2020-11-11 03:05:45.054546”
“Discrimination data - Field props”;“2020-11-11 03:06:14.867629”
“Discrimination data - Statistics”;“2020-11-11 03:06:17.588111”
“Discrimination data - End”;“2020-11-11 03:06:17.702073”
“Discrimination - Start”;“2020-11-11 03:06:42.42613”
“Discrimination - End”;“2020-11-11 03:09:27.666956”
“DiscriminationEnd - Start”;“2020-11-11 03:09:27.668043”
“DiscriminationEnd - End”;“2020-11-11 03:10:58.652986”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - Start”;“2020-11-11 03:10:58.653348”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - FieldType”;“2020-11-11 03:10:58.654681”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - End”;“2020-11-11 03:11:00.763999”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2020-11-11 03:11:00.765395”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2020-11-11 03:11:01.504153”
“Update metrics: start”;“2020-12-24 14:50:52.87858”
“Update metrics: end”;“2020-12-24 14:51:06.514191”
“Discrimination data - Start”;“2020-12-24 14:51:24.077378”
“Discrimination data - LastUpdatedBy”;“2020-12-24 14:51:24.085855”
“Discrimination data - Checksum”;“2020-12-24 14:51:34.75534”
“Discrimination data - Objects”;“2020-12-24 14:51:35.352585”
“Discrimination data - Field props”;“2020-12-24 14:52:06.654034”
“Discrimination data - Statistics”;“2020-12-24 14:52:09.928199”
“Discrimination data - End”;“2020-12-24 14:52:10.101786”
“Discrimination - Start”;“2020-12-24 14:52:33.884876”
“Discrimination - End”;“2020-12-24 17:09:31.944765”
“DiscriminationEnd - Start”;“2020-12-24 17:09:31.945981”
“DiscriminationEnd - End”;“2020-12-24 17:10:50.469172”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - Start”;“2020-12-24 17:10:50.469489”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - FieldType”;“2020-12-24 17:10:50.470524”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - End”;“2020-12-24 17:10:52.605078”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2020-12-24 17:10:52.606377”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2020-12-24 17:10:57.74854”
“Update metrics: start”;“2021-05-21 16:24:18.42461”
“Update metrics: end”;“2021-05-21 16:24:30.647573”
“Discrimination data - Start”;“2021-05-21 16:24:55.930921”
“Discrimination data - LastUpdatedBy”;“2021-05-21 16:24:55.937734”
“Discrimination data - Checksum”;“2021-05-21 16:25:05.71796”
“Discrimination data - Objects”;“2021-05-21 16:25:06.468176”
“Discrimination data - Field props”;“2021-05-21 16:25:43.638059”
“Discrimination data - Statistics”;“2021-05-21 16:25:46.576742”
“Discrimination data - End”;“2021-05-21 16:25:46.687714”
“Discrimination - Start”;“2021-05-21 16:26:10.983931”
“Discrimination - End”;“2021-05-21 18:48:25.548799”
“DiscriminationEnd - Start”;“2021-05-21 18:48:25.550149”
“DiscriminationEnd - End”;“2021-05-21 18:49:42.341158”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - Start”;“2021-05-21 18:49:42.341471”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - FieldType”;“2021-05-21 18:49:42.341906”
“Discrimination - Exception FieldProp - End”;“2021-05-21 18:49:44.585762”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2021-05-21 18:49:44.587286”
“DiscriminationUDMSize - Start”;“2021-05-21 18:49:48.79374”
“Update metrics: start”;“2021-12-18 02:25:57.766294”
“Update metrics: end”;“2021-12-18 02:26:12.262336”
“Discrimination data - Start”;“2021-12-18 02:26:28.926164”
“Discrimination data - Error: project or vanilla not found”;“2021-12-18 02:26:28.930144”
“Update metrics: start”;“2021-12-29 11:45:24.416706”
“Update metrics: end”;“2021-12-29 11:45:38.626935”
“Discrimination data - Start”;“2021-12-29 11:45:55.265963”
“Discrimination data - Error: project or vanilla not found”;“2021-12-29 11:45:55.269039”
“Update metrics: start”;“2022-01-08 13:46:08.756459”
“Update metrics: end”;“2022-01-08 13:46:18.870056”
“Discrimination data - Start”;“2022-01-08 13:46:40.78421”
“Discrimination data - Error: project or vanilla not found”;“2022-01-08 13:46:40.787298”

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Siebel technology - discrimination time

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query returns the history of different discrimination steps as well as the consumption time.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

select * 
from siebel_log 
order by 2 asc

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on snapshots - How to find out the time consumed by a stored procedure

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The queries in this page will help you to determine the time consumed by stored procedures.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT Substr(START_HIST.description, 7) AS Action, 
 START_HIST.action_date Start_date, 
 END_HIST.action_date end_date, 
 ( END_HIST.action_date - START_HIST.action_date ) AS consumed_time 
FROM dss_history START_HIST, 
 dss_history END_HIST 
WHERE START_HIST.history_id + 1 = END_HIST.history_id 
 AND START_HIST.description LIKE 'Start%' 
 AND END_HIST.description LIKE 'End%' 
 AND START_HIST.action_date > (SELECT compute_start_date 
 FROM <central_schema>.dss_snapshots 
 WHERE snapshot_id = <snapshot_id>) 
 AND END_HIST.action_date > (SELECT compute_start_date 
 FROM <central_schema>.dss_snapshots 
 WHERE snapshot_id = <snapshot_id>) 
ORDER BY ( END_HIST.action_date - START_HIST.action_date ) DESC

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on source code - How to check if source code is attached in CAST KB

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page provides a query to be run on Knowledge Base to see if the source code is attached in CAST Knowledge base

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

After running the Snapshot, the Table DSS_CODE_SOURCES is populated which contains information about the source.

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Transactions - How to check if there is custom function point on Transactions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query returns the custom function point calibration on Transactions.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT count (1)
from dss_transaction
where user_fp_value is not null
or user_isinput is not null

Query result example

Query result interpretation

The query returns the number of customized transactions.

SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on User Project - How to get User Project ID

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page describes a query for getting the User Project ID.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query

 SELECT p.IdPro ,
 k.KeyNam,
 t.IdTyp ,
 t.TypNam
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT op.IdPro
 FROM ObjPro op
 
 UNION
 
 SELECT DISTINCT a.IdPro
 FROM Acc a
 )
 p
 JOIN Keys k
 ON k.IdKey = p.IdPro
 AND k.ObjTyp NOT IN (306,
 527)
 JOIN Typ t
 ON t.IdTyp = k.ObjTyp;

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Management Base - Assign the analysis unit to respective analysis unit module

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query when run on the CAST management base will make sure that the analysis units are tagged to their respective modules

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅

Query for JAVA (CSS, Oracle, SQL Server)

insert into CMS_ObjectLinks (Caller_Id, Callee_Id, Symbol, Position)
select cpof.Object_Id,
 min(mau.Object_Id),
 'analysisunits',
 0
 from CMS_PORTF_Module cpm
 join CMS_PORTF_ObjectFilter cpof
 on cpof.Module_Id = cpm.Object_Id
 join MAINT_AnalysisUnits mau
 on mau.Object_Name = cpm.Object_Name
 and mau.Active = 1
 where not exists (select 1
 from CMS_ObjectLinks col
 where col.Caller_Id = cpof.Object_Id
 and col.Symbol = 'analysisunits'
 )
 group by cpof.Object_Id;

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Management Base - Queries on Generic set - How to check if a referenced generic set does not exists

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The query checks if a referenced generic set does not exists

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT EXISTS 
 ( 
 SELECT osd.settype, 
 osd.setname, 
 osd.setdefinition 
 FROM cal_objsetdef osd, 
 cal_setassociation sa 
 WHERE sa.set_id = osd.set_id 
 AND setdefinition LIKE '<Generic_set_name>' 
 AND 
 ( 
 SELECT EXISTS 
 ( 
 SELECT 1 
 FROM cal_objsetdef osd, 
 cal_setassociation sa 
 WHERE sa.set_id = osd.set_id 
 AND osd.settype = 'Generic sets' 
 AND setname = '<Generic_set_name>' ) ) )

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Measure Base - Checking and removing corruptions - Ghost technologies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This pages helps you to identify and remove ghost technologies.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

Run the query to return the snapshot Id and the ghost technology Id

SELECT dli1.next_object_id AS TECHNO_ID, 
 dli1.snapshot_id, 
 dli2.next_object_id 
FROM dss_objects dos 
 JOIN dss_link_info dli1 
 ON dos.object_type_id = -102 
 AND dli1.link_type_id = 2 
 AND dli1.previous_object_id = dos.object_id 
 LEFT JOIN dss_object_info doi 
 ON doi.object_id = dli1.next_object_id 
 AND doi.snapshot_id = dli1.snapshot_id 
 LEFT JOIN dss_link_info dli2 
 ON dli2.previous_object_id = dli1.next_object_id 
 AND dli2.link_type_id = 1 
 AND dli2.snapshot_id = dli1.snapshot_id 
WHERE doi.object_id IS NULL 
ORDER BY dli1.next_object_id

Query result example

SQL Queries - CAST Measure Base - Consolidation - Check if there is a lock created for synchronization and remove it

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This page provides remediation when there is a lock created for synchronization.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	(coche)
8.2.x	(coche)
8.1.x	(coche)
8.0.x	(coche)

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	(coche)
Microsoft SQL Server	(coche)
CSS2	(coche)

Query for CSS

Check if there is a lock created for synchronization

SELECT DISTINCT ( CASE
 WHEN option_name = 'LOCK_SYNCHRO' THEN 'LOCKED'
 END )
FROM sys_site_options
WHERE option_name = 'LOCK_SYNCHRO'

Query result example

SQL Queries - Common SQL Queries - Corruptions - Corruptions on application - How to get the list applications and their modules that have different names across the Triplet

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query lists the applications and their modules that have different names across the triplet.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❓
Microsoft SQL Server	❓
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT cicl.object_name AS kb_name, 
 cicl.service_unique_id AS kb_site_id, 
 cicc.object_name AS cb_name, 
 cicc.service_unique_id AS cb_site_id, 
 cpa.object_id AS appli_id, 
 cpa.object_name AS appli_name, 
 doa.object_id AS cb_appli_id, 
 doa.object_name AS cb_appli_name, 
 doa.object_full_name AS cb_appli_full_name, 
 cpm.object_id AS module_id, 
 cpm.object_name AS module_name, 
 k.idkey AS kb_module_id, 
 k.keynam AS kb_module_name, 
 dom.object_id AS cb_module_id, 
 dom.object_name AS cb_module_name, 
 dom.object_full_name AS cb_module_full_name, 
 cpm.definitiontype AS module_type, 
 cst.internal_timestamp 
FROM <mngt_base>.cms_portf_module cpm 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_dynamicfields cdfm 
ON cdfm.object_id = cpm.object_id 
AND cdfm.field_guid = 'entry' 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_portf_application cpa 
ON cpa.object_id = cpm.application_id 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_dynamicfields cdfa 
ON cdfa.object_id = cpa.object_id 
AND cdfa.field_guid = 'entry' 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_sync_translation cst 
ON cst.adapterclass = 'com.castsoftware.pmc.actions.module.ModuleLocalAdapter' 
AND cst.entryobjpmc = cdfm.field_value 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_sync_translation csta 
ON csta.adapterclass = 'com.castsoftware.pmc.actions.centralservice.PortfolioCentralAdapter'
AND csta.entryobjpmc = cdfa.field_value 
LEFT JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_sync_translation cstm 
ON cstm.adapterclass = 'com.castsoftware.pmc.actions.centralservice.ModulePortfolioCentralAdapter'
AND cstm.entryobjpmc = cdfm.field_value 
AND cstm.entryservice = csta.entryservice 
LEFT JOIN <local_base>.keys k 
ON k.idkey = cst.idobjservice 
JOIN <central_base>.dss_objects doa 
ON doa.object_id = csta.idobjservice 
LEFT JOIN <central_base>.dss_objects dom 
ON dom.object_id = cstm.idobjservice 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_dynamicfields cdfl 
ON cdfl.field_guid = 'entry' 
AND cdfl.field_value = cst.entryservice 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_inf_css_localdb cicl 
ON cicl.object_id = cdfl.object_id 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_dynamicfields cdfc 
ON cdfc.field_guid = 'entry' 
AND cdfc.field_value = csta.entryservice 
JOIN <mngt_base>.cms_inf_css_centraldb cicc 
ON cicc.object_id = cdfc.object_id 
WHERE cst.idobjservice IN 
 ( 
 SELECT cst.idobjservice 
 FROM <mngt_base>.cms_sync_translation cst 
 WHERE cst.adapterclass = 'com.castsoftware.pmc.actions.module.ModuleLocalAdapter'
 GROUP BY cst.idobjservice 
 HAVING count(1) > 1 );

Query result example

SQL Queries - Common SQL Queries - Corruptions - Corruptions on Metamodel - Get the list of inconsistent association between type and property

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

This query list the inconsistent association between type and property. You can run the query on central and local schema

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Query for CSS

SELECT tp.idprop, 
 t.idtyp FROM typprop tp LEFT JOIN typ t ON t.idtyp = tp.idtyp LEFT JOIN prop p ON p.idprop = tp.idprop WHERE t.idtyp IS NULL OR p.idprop IS NULL;

Query result example

SQL Queries - Common SQL Queries - Corruptions - Corruptions on Module - Missing IFPUG Module

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose of Query

The following page provide steps to detect and then correct the issue of missing IFPUG Module from the knowledge schema. The query will be executed on the knowledge schema and central schema

Note that there is no Functional definition of the IFPUG module, this is a technical module related to Function point computing.

Applicable CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

SRV - About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

About

CAST provides an About dialog box that displays technical information about:

the application module name, together with its current version and build number
the addresses and contact details of the main CAST Offices
the connectivity layer in use
the machine identification number
the host name

Report button

SRV - Add Users to the Analysis Service via a script

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Add Users to the Analysis Service via a script

Note User Management does not apply in a CAST Storage Service environment.

In order to use the Analysis Service, users must first be registered. On completion of the server-side component installation process, the user that installs the Analysis Service will be automatically registered and assigned Administrator rights (all processes are allowed).

If you need to add additional users and assign them the Administrator right, you can do so using an SQL script that updates a specific table in the CAST Analysis Service.

SRV - Application Specific INI File Options

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Application Specific INI File Options

This page describes how to add various parameters to the SERVMAN.INI file (located in your %APPDATA%\CAST\CAST<Version_Number> directory after installing CAST Products). These parameters add supplementary features to the application.

Log Window - Include Debug Information

To force the Log Window to display verbose debug information in the Log file, add the following:

SRV - Component Reinstall

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Component Reinstall

This option enables you to reinstall any server-side components already installed on the selected database/schema. The components will be reinstalled with the current versions of the components provided in the current release of CAST Server Manager. Note this option is only available if the Upgrade Status heading in the Server Browser contains Up To Date.

Notes

This option is only available for standalone CAST AIP schemas that are Up To Date and available under the Measurement Services and Unmanaged Services nodes - i.e. it is not available for Combined Installations.
This option is in fact a type of “refresh” operation for the selected server-side components - however, please note that this reinstall is only partial: some parts of the components you select will not be reinstalled.
If you are experiencing severe problems, you may need to carry out a fresh install of the server-side components instead of using this reinstall option. In this case, please contact CAST for more detailed advice - particularly if you have critical data stored in the CAST AIP schemas.
When re-installing in a CAST Storage Service (CSS) environment, the re-install process will drop any custom objects you may have created that directly or indirectly use any default Analysis/Dashboard/Management Service objects. As such, if you need to retain these custom objects, please ensure that your backup is up-to-date before carrying out the re-install.
You can also use the button located on the toolbar or the right click shortcut menu to access the option.

To access the option:

SRV - Connection

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Connection

CAST Server Manager enables you to install the CAST server-side components (Analysis Service, Dashboard Service, Management Service and Measurement Service) on your chosen server (please refer to the Release Notes for more information about supported server versions and connectivity layers).
You therefore need to connect to the server on which you want to install the components using a login name and password that have sufficient permissions to carry out an installation (see User privileges and server requirements for server-side installation for more information about this).
Connections to the server are defined in Connection Profiles, enabling you to create any number of different connection configurations (specifying servers, usernames and passwords) to a variety of different servers (if for example your organization wants to install several different Knowledge Base (Locals) on several different servers). Connection is simply a matter of selecting and opening a valid Profile.
When a connection to a server has been established, CAST Server Manager will scan the server defined in the selected Connection Profile and display the names of any databases/schemas that already contain CAST server side components, whether from this current version, or from previous versions. Please see the How To section for further information.

SRV - Creating Connection Profiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Creating Connection Profiles

Note that if you have installed the CAST Storage Service and CAST Server Manager in the same setup execution, the Connection Profile for the CAST Storage Service should be immediately available and there is no need to manually create it.

In order to establish a connection with your chosen database server or CAST Storage Service, you need to create a profile. This can be done with the Add/Edit Connection Profile dialog box.

SRV - Log Window

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Log Window

How does it work?

Each time a warning or an error (i.e. from the server) is received a new message is displayed in the Log Window - in other words a new line will be created. For each message displayed in the list, information will be provided via a variety of different columns. The information displayed in the Log Window is stored in temporary files (*.tmp) on your hard drive, on a “per-application” basis in the default log location (see Messages and Errors tab).

SRV - Messages and Errors tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Messages and Errors tab

Tools > Options > Messages & Errors

This tab enables you to configure various options for the errors and messages that are saved to an external file. These messages are also displayed in the Log Window.

Main Log File Name

Log root directory

This field displays the folder in which the application specific log file will be stored - by default this is set to use the location defined in the CAST_LOG_ROOT_PATH variable in the CastGlobalSettings.ini file. By default this is set to: *%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\CAST\Logs* with logs stored in a specific SERVMAN sub folder. If you change this location, please make sure that the target directory already exists. If it does not, the application will save a temporary .TXT log file to %PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\CAST\Logs\Servman.

Log main file name

This field displays the name of the log file. By default, this will be Servman-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.log.txt. You can choose a different file name should you require - click the Browse button and a standard Windows Opendialog box will be displayed enabling you to choose the new file. This log file will contain information in the same formatted style as displayed in the Log Window.

Log Options

SRV - Oracle - Privileges granted to new schema user

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oracle - Privileges granted to new schema user

Server Manager grants the following privileges to the users created during the installation of a new schema for the CAST scehmas.

For example, if you create and install a new schema called “CASTKB”, a user also called “CASTKB” will be created and granted the Oracle system privileges listed below (note that using the Combined Install option will install three schemas and all three corresponding users will have the same privileges listed below):

SRV - User privileges and server requirements for server-side installation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

User privileges and requirements for server-side installation

Server-Side installation refers to installing CAST components onto the host RDBMS/CAST Storage Services that you will use with CAST. Please select your server type for more information:

CAST Storage Service


In a CAST Storage Service environment, it is not necessary to manage user privileges. The pre-prepared “operator” login must be used when installing CAST components.

Oracle

SSL Errors - Alias name does not identify a key entry

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When you are setting up SSL and this message appears in the log (where xxx is the alias you have setup):

Alias name [xxxx] does not identify a key entry

Example of log:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Alias name [cast] does not identify a key entry

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractJsseEndpoint.createSSLContext(AbstractJsseEndpoint.java:107) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.63.jar!/:na]

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractJsseEndpoint.initialiseSsl(AbstractJsseEndpoint.java:71) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.63.jar!/:na]

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.bind(NioEndpoint.java:234) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.63.jar!/:na]

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.bindWithCleanup(AbstractEndpoint.java:1227) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.63.jar!/:na]

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.start(AbstractEndpoint.java:1313) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.63.jar!/:na]

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start(AbstractProtocol.java:614) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.63.jar!/:na]

at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.startInternal(Connector.java:1072) ~[tomcat-embed-core-9.0.63.jar!/:na]

Then please follow the below solution.

Standalone Engineering Dashboard deployment using JAR file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes how to install and configure the Engineering Dashboard ≥ 2.5 in JAR file format (i.e. no web application server required).

Introduction

What is the JAR file format?

From release 2.5 onwards, CAST will deliver an executable JAR file for each CAST Dashboard, alongside the traditional WAR file that has always been delivered. The executable JAR file is an alternative method of deploying the CAST Dashboards based on Spring Boot and does not require a web application server (the application server is embedded in the JAR itself). In addition, the JAR file contains an interactive installer which will guide you through some of the deployment requirements. The aim of the JAR file releases is to simplify and speed up the deployment of the CAST Dashboards. The deployment and configuration of the Spring Boot based dashboards differs slightly to the steps required for traditional WAR files (see Standalone Engineering Dashboard deployment using WAR file).

Standalone Health Dashboard deployment using JAR file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes how to install and configure the Health Dashboard ≥ 2.5 in JAR file format (i.e. no web application server required).

Introduction

What is the JAR file format?

From release 2.5 onwards, CAST will deliver an executable JAR file for each CAST Dashboard, alongside the traditional WAR file that has always been delivered. The executable JAR file is a new method of deploying the CAST Dashboards based on Spring Boot and does not require a web application server (the application server is embedded in the JAR itself). In addition, the JAR file contains an interactive installer which will guide you through some of the deployment requirements. The aim of the JAR file releases is to simplify and speed up the deployment of the CAST Dashboards. The deployment and configuration of the Spring Boot based dashboards differs slightly to the steps required for traditional WAR files (see Standalone Health Dashboard deployment using WAR file).

Standalone RestAPI deployment using JAR file

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

**Summary:**This section describes how to install and configure the standalone CAST RestAPI ≥ 2.5 in JAR****file format (i.e. no web application server required).

Introduction

What is the JAR file format?

From release 2.5 onwards, CAST will deliver an executable JAR file for each CAST Dashboard, alongside the traditional WAR file that has always been delivered. The executable JAR file is a new method of deploying the CAST Dashboards based on Spring Boot and does not require a web application server (the application server is embedded in the JAR itself). In addition, the JAR file contains an interactive installer which will guide you through some of the deployment requirements. The aim of the JAR file releases is to simplify and speed up the deployment of the CAST Dashboards. The deployment and configuration of the Spring Boot based dashboards differs slightly to the steps required for traditional WAR files (see Standalone RestAPI deployment using WAR file).

Standard onboarding for CAST Imaging - add a new Version - deliver code - upload to CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

To perform this step, your AIP Console login must have the Application Owner**role**.

Introduction

This step performs many actions in one go, without the need for manual interaction. It allows you to get real results very quickly. Actions performed:

Validate the Version - i.e. validate the delivered source code
Accept the Version - accept it and allow it to be analyzed
Set as current Version - set it as the current version to be used in the analysis
Run an analysis - source code analysis results are stored in the Analysis schema
Upload the data to CAST Imaging - results can be viewed in your CAST Imaging instance

This is ideal for a Standard onboarding scenario where you just want a set of baseline results using all the default settings. Results can be generated very quickly.

Standard rescan - add a new Version - deliver code - generate snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

To perform this step, your AIP Console login must have the Application Owner**role**.

Introduction

This step performs many actions in one go, without the need for manual interaction. It allows you to get real results very quickly. Actions performed:

Validate the Version - i.e. validate the delivered source code
Accept the Version - accept it and allow it to be analyzed
Import the Version - set it as the current version to be used in the analysis
Run an analysis - source code analysis results are stored in the Analysis schema
Take a snapshot - metrics and structural rule data is generated and consolidated in the Dashboard schema - results can be viewed in an Engineering Dashboard
Upload the snapshot to the Measurement schema - results can be viewed in a Health Dashboard

This is ideal for a Standard rescan scenario where you just want a set of baseline results for your new source code version, using the same settings as those used for the previous version. Results can be generated very quickly.

Standard rescan for CAST Imaging - add a new Version - deliver code - upload to CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

To perform this step, your AIP Console login must have the Application Owner**role**.

Introduction

This step performs many actions in one go, without the need for manual interaction. It allows you to get real results very quickly. Actions performed:

Validate the Version - i.e. validate the delivered source code
Accept the Version - accept it and allow it to be analyzed
Import the Version - set it as the current version to be used in the analysis
Run an analysis - source code analysis results are stored in the Analysis schema
Upload the data to CAST Imaging - results can be viewed in your CAST Imaging instance

Table components for Report Generator 1.25

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Table components for Report Generator 1.28

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

TCC - Access Rights

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Access Rights

When you connect to a Management Service using the CAST Transaction Configuration Center, you must specify a User name. This User name requires the following access rights for the server and the Management Service:

Connect
Read tables
Write to tables
Execute stored procedures

As such, CAST recommends that you re-use the same user specified in the Connection Profile used when launching the CAST Management Studio.

Notes - Note that in a CAST Storage Service environment, rights do NOT need to be managed. The default operator user already has the required rights to connect to a Management database.

TCC - AFP Calibration - Data Functions/Transactional Functions sub-nodes - Right hand panel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AFP Calibration - Data Functions/Transactional Functions sub-nodes - Right hand panel

The Data Functions and Transactional Functions sub nodes (in the AFP Calibration node) enable you to:

view the default CAST results in the CAST Analysis Service (from the Snapshot generation) prior to any calibration taking place
calibrate the default results as required (for more information about calibration and how to do it, please see Calibrate):
- change the type (ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ) and the value of each Data Function or Transactional Function that has been “detected” via the pre-defined set(s) or the specific set(s) that you have created
- Delete, split or merge objects

TCC - Change the Computed FP

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Change the Computed FP

By default, CAST will use internal algorithms to define how the Function Point size of a specific object is computed. As discussed in Change the Computed Type, the method of computing the Function Points size is determined by which category the object falls into.

You will see how CAST computed the Function Point size of each individual object in the Data Functions/Transactional Functions nodes (part of the AFP Calibration node - Right hand panel), under the Computed FP column:

TCC - FAQ on objects external to the Application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why are objects external to the Application sometimes visible as Transaction End Points?

When more than one Application is analyzed in the same “triplet” of CAST AIP schemas, you may find that rules created for Transaction End Points in a specific Application contain results from both Applications. This is expected behaviour and is due to that fact that objects that are external to an Application (i.e. outside the Application boundary) are always included for Transaction End Points.

TCC - Log node

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Log node

The Log node lists messages and errors that may occur when the CAST Transaction Configuration Center is in use:

The messages in the Log node window are also recorded in a log file on disk:

the file will be named “TCC--.log.txt”, where is of the form “YYYYMMDD”, and of the form “HHMMSS”
the file will by default be located in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%/CAST/CAST/Logs/TCC, or in a folder named TCC in the location specified by the CAST_LOG_ROOT_PATH if that variable has been defined and activated in the CastGlobalSettings.ini file.

The following headings are displayed in the Log node window:

Text components available for Report Generator 1.12.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.13.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.14.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.15.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.16.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.17.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.18.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.19.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.20

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.21

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.22

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.23

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.26

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.28

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.29

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.30

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.31

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Text components available for Report Generator 1.32

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI). The CAST-RestAPI version indicated is the minimal version of the RESTAPI needed by this component.
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

Tools - ADPlus in the CRASH mode

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page describes how to use the AD Plus tool and how to analyze the AD crash dumps. Ad plus tool is used when CAST AIP analysis crashes without any error message either in CAST AIP log or CAST MS log.

Ad plus tool can be used to retrieve the AD crash dumps from which information about CAST AIP crash can be retrieved for analysis.

If the application to debug is in Java, use Tools - Java VisualVM instead.

Tools - Alert Ignore List Builder - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.1.0

New optional argument to be set in the batch file : JUSTIFICATION. All alerts will be ignored with this text as justification.
If not set, then a default justification text will be generated, containing the name of the extension, and specifying the regular expression pattern used to decide that the alert should be ignored.

1.0.0

First version

Tools - Content Enrichment Migrator - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

Details

1.0.0

First version

Limitation :
This first version only allows user to export/import the whole content enrichment in a row. If user wants to migrate only certain tools, then they will have to manipulate the intermediate XML files generated by the export script, at their own risk.
Future versions will lift this limitation, and user will be able to select which tools they want to export/import, based on the tool type or the tool name

Tools - Delivery Folder Consistency Checker - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.0.1

Upgrade of the Postgres JDBC driver to version 42.2.11 (technical patch)

1.0.0

First version

Tools - Delivery Plugin Cleaner - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.0.0

First version

Tools - Environment Profiles Migrator - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.0.0

First version

Tools - Path-Based Module Generator - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.0.0

First version

Tools - PerfMon - How to Log memory consumption of a program using Performance Monitor PerfMon in Windows 7 or Windows 2008

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

The page details out the process of logging memory consumption of a program using Performance Monitor (PerfMon) when the OS is Win 7 or Win 2008.

Details

For CAST AIP versions 7.3 onwards

Steps	Procedure
1	Open Cast-MS, but do not launch the job.
2	Start PerfMon by choosing Start >Run and typing “perfmon”.
3	Right click Performance Monitor » New » Data Collector set [ in case it is disabled for you, you may need to admin privilege]
4	Add name for Data Collector set.
5	Add path to save the log.
6	Select Run as.
7	Keep selected “Save and close”.
8	Click Finish.
9	Now Expand the Data Collector Set » User Defined.
10	Here you will find the above added data collector set.
11	Right click on it and go for new.
12	Add name and select “Performance counter data collector”.
13	Click Next.
14	Click Add.
15	Select Computers.
16	Expand “process” and select “virtual bytes” as counter.
17	Select AnaRun in Instances of selected object. (this may need to be jeecmd or dotnetcmd if that is where the issue is)
18	Click Add and then click OK.
19	Click Next.
20	Click Finish.
21	Now right click on the newly created data collector in the right panel.
22	Select Properties.
23	Change the log format from binary to Tab Separated.
24	Click Apply and then OK.
25	Now right click on the collector set and go for start.
26	Now run the analysis job to reproduce the issue.
27	Once it is reproduced, provide the perfmon log.

For CAST AIP version 7.0

Tools - Repository Credentials Updater - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.0.0

First version

Tools - Smart Reference Finder - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.0.0

First version

Tools - Version Organizer - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

1.0.2

Introduction of two new parameters

NB_OF_ARCHIVES_TO_KEEP (default = -1):
This parameter is useful when users want to destroy already accepted versions. Since the system does not allow it directly, these versions must be archived first, then destroyed.
It sets the number of versions that should NOT be destroyed after being archived.
Default value is -1, which means no archived version will be destroyed (old behaviour).
If set to 0, all archived versions will be destroyed.
If set to N, the N last archived versions will remain; other archived versions will be destroyed.
KEEP_PATTERN (default = “”):
This pattern allows users to define a regular expression that version names must match in order to be spared.
Versions whose names match the pattern will NOT be archived nor destroyed, regardless of their status, order, or creation date.

1.0.1

Bug Fixes

Transaction and Function Point management - Transaction configuration

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

This step builds the transactions implemented in the application. This is done by creating specific rules for Transaction Entry Points and End Points as well as for the identification of Data Entities. There are two methods of doing this:


Console: Transaction UI	Available in Console after an initial Application analysis has been completed. Documentation is available in Application - Transactions:
CAST Transaction Configuration Center (TCC)	This is a standalone tool (CAST-TransactionConfig.exe) available in the AIP Core installation folder. Documentation is available in CAST Transaction Configuration Center (TCC):

Several concepts and their associated steps are used during the transaction configuration phase:

Transaction Code Flow

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of this document is for the application SME to capture representative transactional code flows snippets between the entry and end points of the application. It is not intended to capture flows between all the individual instances of entry/end points (explained below) but rather to capture a representative flow through each of the technologies depicted in the Architecture Context Diagram. This document is used by the CAST Administrator during the analysis configuration workflow stage (eBlue Print - Analysis Configuration and Execution).

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Application Functional Size - Incorrect Results - Calibrated function points are not strictly positive

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page handle the case of unexpected Value of calibrated function points like negative values or null values:

Figure 1

Figure 2

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run a full snapshot
Calibrate function points
Compute application function points
Observe the issue

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Compute Application function points - Fatal Error - Atleast one analysis did not finish

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page gives solution to the problem where TCC computation fails with error message “At least one analysis did not finish successfully. You must compute a snapshot for this application to have results.” as seen in the below screenshot.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Data Function - Computed Type Variation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues observed under the node AFP Calibration > Data Function for the column Computed Type between two different runs.

Figure 1

For more information on what is computed type , refer to TCC - Compute

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Data Function - Incorrect Computed FP - FP value equal to zero with DET different to zero

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page explain the case when all Data functions have FP values equal to 0 even when DET and RET values of these Data functions are not null.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Open TCC.
Compute Function point.

Action Plan

Perform the below actions:

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Data Function - Incorrect DET - DET equal to zero

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page handle the issue when the DET value is equal to zero

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Compute application Function Point
Go To AFP Calibration > Data Function

Action Plan

Check if the Data Function is Ignored (TCC - Ignore/Unignore an object) and or Deleted TCC - Delete an object)and Excluded TCC - Entry points, Data Entities, End points, Excluded Items - Browser

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Data Function - Status Variation - Data Function Status is DELETED with unchanged source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This troubleshooting page assists in the case when the datafunction status in Transaction Configuration Center (TCC) is deleted and this is an unexpected result.
An example of a deleted datafunction in TCC can be seen in the screenshot below :

Assistance with TCC can be found in the documentation. For CAST 8.2, please see this page: TCC - CAST Transaction Configuration Center

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Load AFP calibration results - Error - Error during function point computing on local site Internal Exception null

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the issue when you try to load current results or compute function points and load results from TCC, and you get the below displayed error.

Internal error while running data functions. Internal exceptions null.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis and take a snapshot
Load current results or compute function points and load results from TCC

Action Plan

Get the step from where the exception occur, for this you can check the TCC log file (please refer the following page in order to locate the TCC log file CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs), you can also observe this directly under the log node of TCC GUI:

From this we can see that the issue occurs in the step “Loading data function detail”, if this is you case then go to the next step, else jump the next step
Check if there are data functions that present a self merge and remediate by refering to the following page SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Corruptions - Corruptions on datafunctions - How to find the objects id of Datafunction which is merged with itself. This corruption occurs because of “TCC custom procedures” located under the analysis service (procedures named TCC_FP_USR_xxx).
If the above steps don’t help you to resolve this issue then please contact CAST Technical Support and provide us with the following Relevant input

Relevant input

Screenshot showing the error in TCC.
Sherlock export with the following options: Export Logs (feature checked by default), Export Configuration files (feature checked by default), Export Computer Environment (feature checked by default),Export CAST Bases
Log file in SHOW SQL mode, for this please refer to Transaction Configuration Center - Information - How to launch TCC in SHOW SQL mode in order to get the SQL traces

Notes/comments

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Reduce the Large Strongly Connected Component

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provide you the list of root causes that can lead to a large SCC. We propose also steps to break or remove the Large SCC.

For more information about SCC refer to Transaction Configuration Center - Information - Definition and impacts of the large Strongly Connected Component

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run a full snashot
Compute application Function points
Read TCC log file

Action plan

Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Transactional Functions - View call graph and View full call graph - View source code - Incomplete source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when the display of the source code is incomplete

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS3	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis
Take snapshot
Open TCC AFP Calibration > Transactional Functions node
View the call graph of Transaction
Select an object of the Transaction
View the source code of the object

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center - Browser - Missing Node - Missing System Node

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

After performing the analysis, when you try to connect to TCC to calibrate your application, TCC opens successfully but the section containing the system and the application is not available. Only the template part is visible as shown in the below screenshot.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Transaction Configuration Center - Enhancement - Automated Enhancement Functional Points - Data Functions - Variation- Added AEFP with UNCHANGED source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page explains the case when there is Added AEFP for Data Function in the evolution node, while there is no change in the analyzed code source.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	(coche)
8.2.x	(coche)
8.1.x	(coche)
8.0.x	(coche)

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	(coche)
Microsoft SQL Server	(coche)
CSS2	(coche)

Step by Step Scenario

Run at least 2 snapsots
Connect to TCC
Observe the variation

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center - Enhancement - Automated Enhancement Functional Points - Transactional Functions - Variation - ADDED AEFP with UNCHANGED code source

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page explains the case when there is Added AEFP for Transactions in the evolution node, while there is no change in the analyzed code source.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Run at least 2 snapshots
Connect to TCC
Observe the variation

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center - Enhancement - Automated Enhancement Technical Points variation - ADDED AETP with unchanged source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page troubleshoot the case when there is Added AETP without change in the source code:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Get the list of objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point for the current snapshot by referring to SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Objects - How to get the list of objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point for a snapshot
1. If the query returns rows
  1. Check if the objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point for the current snapshot are part of the current run but not previous run, for that refer to SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Objects - How to get the delta of objects between two snapshots, here we may encounter 3 cases:
    1. All the objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point for the current snapshot are part of the current run but not previous run, in this case we are facing an issue of missing objects from the previous run, to investigate the issue refer to CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Missing objects
    2. None of the objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point for the current snapshot are part of the current run but not previous run, in this case, the objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point are part of the two snapshots but they are linked to only transactions of the previous snapshot. We need to get the list of objects that are part of two snapshots but they are linked to only transactions of the previous snapshot by following this page SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Objects - How to get the list of objects that are part of two snapshots but they are linked only to transactions of the previous snapshot. Note that the natural and complementary impact of this set of objects is that you will get Modified and/or Deleted Transactions in the current snapshot on which the object involved in the Transaction has the object status itself UNCHANGED but the status in the TF is DELETED. First, Go to the Enhancement node under TCC and observe that the objects listed by the above query has the object status itself UNCHANGED but the status in the TF is DELETD, then investigate the root case as follow:
      1. Check if the object have the Role “FULL_GRAPH_OBJECT”:
        
        If the object have the Role “FULL_GRAPH_OBJECT”, then check if there is a change in the measurement mode between the snapshots from where you are observing the status variation:
        
        If the mode have changed from EFP mode to AEP mode or vice versa, then this is expected. In fact AEP-EFP snapshots are not comparable with each other. when you plan to change the measurement mode, it is necessary to recreate a new baseline snapshot. So, after you change the measure you must generate a new snapshot for the same Application version but it must not be considered as consistent for the new measure. The next snapshot you generate for the Application will be consistent and can be used as the first snapshot using the new enhancement measure. For more detailed explanation refer to Transitioning from EFP to AEP.
      2. If the object do not have the Role “FULL_GRAPH_OBJECT”:
        here we are probably facing an issue of “nude” object (From current run or previous run). In what follows, we will define the “nude” object, explain the reason to get a “nude object”, then we will provide the methodology of identifying the “nude” object.
      3. Definition of “nude” object:
        In order to easily explain this, we take the following sample:
        Let us consider that the transaction was having the following Call graph in the previous run:
        
        The object “L22” will be “nude” object if the Entry point “L0” cannot reach the End point “L4” by way of the branch “L0”→ “L12”→ “L22” → “L32” → ““L4
      4. How can this be possible?
        The path from “L0” to “L4” will be truncated by way of the branch “L0”→ “L12”→ “L22” → “L32” → ““L4, in one of the following cases:
        
        Object “L12” or “L32” are deleted between the 2 runs
        
        Link “L0”→ “L12” or “L12”→ “L22” or “L22”→ “L32”, or “L32”→ “L4” are deleted between the 2 runs
        
        How to identify the nude object?
        
        Open TCC with current run and previous run
        
        View the full call graph of the Transaction from the current and previous run
        
        Identify The Missing path by comparing the two full call graphs
        
        If we take as an example the illustration above the call graphs will be as follows
        
        Open Enlighten with the knowledge base from where the path is missing from the call graph
        
        Try to trace the missing path:
        
        Place the object corresponding to the entry point in the Graphical View
        
        Add Linked Objects of the object corresponding to the entry point as seen in the full call graph of TCC
        
        Place the objects corresponding to the linked objects in the Graphical View
        
        Add Linked Objects of the linked objects as seen in the full call graph of TCC
        
        Do point c and d until:
        
        You are not able to trace the Transaction because of missing link then refer to CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing or Wrong links between two objects
        
        Or if you are not able to trace the Transaction because of missing objects then refer to CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects
        
        Or if you are able to trace the missing path then refer to Transaction Configuration Center - AFP Calibration - Transactional Functions - Missing Links
    3. Part of the objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point for the current snapshot are part of the current run but not previous run, and the other part of the objects contributing to the ADDED automated enhancement technical point for the current snapshot are part of the current run but not previous run, for each part proceed as above
2. Else if the query does not returns rows then contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant input
If the above steps do not solve your issue contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant input

Notes/comments

Transaction Configuration Center - Enhancement - Data Function - Status variation - Data functions status are ADDED and DELETED

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page troubleshoot the case when you get Transactions that have the status ADDED and the status DELETED:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Action Plan

Check if the behavior is not due to the following corruption SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Data Function - How to list and clean Data Functions that are targeting the same Object.
If yes then apply the steps that cleanup this corruption then perform the below sub steps:
1. Open TCC
2. Go to Enhancement -> Data Function sub node.
3. Recompute checksums and snapshots status.
4. Observe that the issue is solved.
Else, this behavior can be due to the fact that the object that is targeted by the Data Function have the status ADDED and DELETED, in order to check this, observe if the object of ROLE “DATA_RECORD” have the object status ADDED in the ADDED Data Function and have the status DELETED in the deleted Data Function
Figure 2
If you confirm this then the issue of ADDED/DELETED Data Function is due to the issue of ADDED/DELETED object, in order to investigate this refer to the following page CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Incorrect Object Status - Same object seen as added deleted
Else contact CAST Technical support with the following Relevant input. For CAST Technical support only reproduce the issue by using the steps given in Transaction Configuration Center - Information - How to reproduce user issues

Notes/comments

Transaction Configuration center - Enhancement - Data Functions - Missing Data Function - Missing Data Function with the status UNCHANGED ADDED or MODIFIED

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page explains the case when you are waiting to get a Data Function with the status UNCHANGED ADDED or MODIFIED, but you are not able to observe the same under TCC:

Official documentation

CAST AIP 8.3 : TCC - Enhancement node - Right hand panel
CAST AIP 8.2 : TCC - Enhancement node - Right hand panel
CAST AIP 8.1 : TCC - EFP Calibration node - Right hand panel
CAST AIP 8.0 : TCC - EFP Calibration node - Right hand panel

TKB page for Information Guides > Component of the feature Transaction Configuration Center TCC

Transaction Configuration Center - Enhancement - Display AEP Detail - Incorrect Effort Complexity Total value

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps to understand the issue where Effort Complexity total displayed in the AEP Detail report in TCC is not matching with the manual calculation.

You can see from below image that the EC total should be 1.05 + 1.00 + 1.15 + 413.78 = 416.98
But the EC total is mentioned as 415.98 in the above report

Observed in CAST Version, CAST Extension Version, CAST Component Version

Transaction Configuration Center - Enhancement - Load Enhancement results - Error - Error during evolution loading Internal exception Null pointer Exception

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when you get the error “Error during evolution loading Internal exception Null pointer Exception” after loading Enhancement results:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take a full snapshot
Open TCC and load Enhancement results

Action Plan

Check in the central base if you have a transaction that is transformed to a Data Function or a Data Function that is transformed to a Transaction, for this please refer to the following pages:
SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Transactions - Transaction transformed to Datafunction
SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Data Function - Datafunction transformed to Transaction
If not then go to the next step, else note that this is a corruption, a scenario that can lead to this corruption can be the following:

Transaction Configuration center - Enhancement - Transactional Functions - Missing Transaction - Missing Transaction with the status DELETED

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page explains the case when you are waiting to get a Transaction with the status DELETED, but you are not able to observe the same under TCC:

****Figure 1

Official documentation

CAST AIP 8.3 : TCC - Enhancement node - Right hand panel
CAST AIP 8.2 : TCC - Enhancement node - Right hand panel
CAST AIP 8.1 : TCC - EFP Calibration node - Right hand panel
CAST AIP 8.0 : TCC - EFP Calibration node - Right hand panel

TKB page for Information Guides > Component of the feature Transaction Configuration Center TCC

Transaction Configuration Center - Enhancement - Transactional Functions - Status Variation - Transactions status are ADDED and DELETED

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page troubleshoot the case when you get Transactions that have the status ADDED and the status DELETED:

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Action Plan

Check if the behavior is due to the following corruption SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Corruptions on Transactions - How to list and clean Transactions that are targeting the same Object. If yes then apply the steps that cleanup this corruption then perform the bellow sub steps, else go to the next step :

Transaction Configuration Center - Fatal Error - Error while loading JDBC driver org postgresql Driver

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This issue handle the case when you get the error “Error while loading JDBC driver org.postgresql.Driver”:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Open TCC.
Open a connection profile.

Action Plan

Check if you are able to connect using CAST-MS if yes then do to the next step else check whether the JDBC connection is working, for this please refer to Tools - JDBC Tester to check the JDBC connection, if the JDBC connection test failed then it’s expected to get this error, please check your JDBC configuration, else go to the next step.
Check if you have not changed or removed one of the file or directory from CAST AIP install directory, this issue was already encountered after renaming the 3rdPartiesJars directory, Please keep the install directory as it was when installed.

If the above steps don’t resolve your issue then please contact CAST Technical Support with the following Relevant inputs

Transaction Configuration Center - Information - AFP Evolution Algorithm

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on AFP Evolution Algorithm

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

Please find below the algorithm used for AFP:

♦ Transactions are computed as following:

A transaction is identified when a path is found from an entry point (usually a screen) to an end point (usually a table) using all the links except Belongs To and internal escalated links.

Transaction Configuration Center - Launch - Fatal Error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues while getting an error when connecting on TCC, for example:

This error is considered as a fatal error because you will not be able to use TCC.

Note that you can Launch TCC by double clicking on TCC executable or using CLI

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center - Transaction Configuration - Duplicated Transaction Configuration Nodes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot duplicated transaction configuration nodes i.e. Entry Points, End Points,Excluded Items or Data Entities . For example, below screenshot shows duplicated End Points scenario:

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS3	✅

Step-by-step

Run analysis
Launch TCC
Navigate to Transaction Configuration →Entry/End point node
Observe duplicates

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center -Transaction Configuration - Generate Set - Fatal Error - DataSet XXX references DataSet XXX which does not exist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the following fatal error:

Error during set generation on local site

The model contains the following errors cannot generate set

DataSet ‘Custom End Point Support’ references DataSet ‘Custom End Point Support’(GS)which do not exist

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Generate Set

Action Plan

Transaction Configuration Center -Transaction Configuration - Generate Set - Missing object - Missing internal object

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page troubleshoots the issue when you are expecting to get an object(s) in the list of generated set. Note that you can generate this list for entry point, end point, data entities and excluded items.

The bellow screenshot illustrate our attempt to generate from the entry point node the list of objects in generated set that have the type “Report”

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

Transaction Configuration Center -Transaction Configuration - Generate Set - Wrong object - Object is part of the Generated Set though it is not part of the analysis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when object is part of the Generated Set though it is not part of the analysis

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis and take a snapshot

Action Plan

Check if the objects are part of the module - SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Module - Module content and properties
This issue can be due to ghost object or ghost project, in order to get the list of these Ghosts and cleanup them from the analysis results, please follow steps explained in the following page SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - Identify and clean up all the ghost objects and ghost projects in your knowledge base, you may refer to the section 243187384 in order to have an idea of the root causes of this behavior
If this does not match your case then please contact CAST Technical Support, and provide the list given in 243187384

Relevant input

Sherlock export with the following options: Export Logs (feature checked by default), Export Configuration files (feature checked by default),Export CAST Bases

Root causes

Ghost objects can be due to the special case of migration from CAST AIP version ≤ 7.0.x to CAST AIP version >7.0.x. In fact the terminology of job has changed in the meantime. In Cast AIP version ≤ 7.0.x we were talking about “job” while in CAST AIP version >7.0.x we talk about “Execution unit”. In order to not have this issue the migration should be done as follows:

UAA - Contacting CAST

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Contacting CAST

For Sales, Product Support or General Inquiries, please contact our headquarters or your regional office directly: http://www.castsoftware.com/discover-cast/contact.

UAA - Limitations

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Limitations

The Universal Assistant will fail the validation of your language package if more than 120 sets of parentheses are present in the xxxLanguagePattern file (i.e. 121 and above).

Universal Importer - Information - How to determine checksums for Universal Imported objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on how to determine checksums for objects imported using the Universal Importer. It can be useful to assist you in understanding why objects may be listed as modified in your analysis.

For more information, refer to:

For CAST 7.3: Universal Importer
For CAST 8.0: Appendix - Importing an additional technology not supported by CAST
For CAST 8.3 Appendix - Importing an additional technology not supported by CAST AIP

Applicable in CAST Version

Update an existing installation - Docker

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information about how to update to a newer release of CAST Imaging.

Requirements


✅	CAST Imaging installed	The target server must already have an existing installation of CAST Imaging installed on it.

How to update

Step 1 - Stop the instance and perform a backup

Stop CAST Imaging using the following command run from the existing Docker Installer path:

Linux: ./imaging -s stop
Microsoft Windows: imaging.exe -s stop

Perform a backup of the existing neo4j data folder. This process is detailed in CAST Imaging backup strategy.
Perform a backup of the existing Docker Installer files - simply copy the files to a different location.

Step 2 - Run the upgrade

Using the imagingsetup tool provided in Docker Installer ≥1.2.11-funcrel

Note

This method will allow you to upgrade tothe specific release of CAST Imaging provided by the installer, i.e. the 2.15.0-funcrel Docker Installer will allow upgrades to CAST Imaging 2.15.0-funcrel only.
This method is supported for those using **Docker Installer ≥1.2.9-funcrel.

**Docker Installer ≥1.2.11-funcrel has been changed and supports upgrading of the Docker Installer files themselves via a tool called imagingsetup (introduced in 1.2.11), meaning that any customizations that have been made to any of these Docker Installer configuration files will now be preserved during the upgrade process (this was not the case in the past). To proceed:

Update CAST Extend Offline with new content

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

CAST Extend Offline is deprecated. Please use CAST Extend local server instead.

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for updating CAST Extend Offline with new content.

Introduction

CAST Extend Offline (in v. ≥ 1.1.0) is delivered “empty” without any preconfigured extensions - you will therefore need to populate Extend Offline with extensions before you can use it. In addition, you may want to update CAST Extend Offline to add new extensions or to include more recent releases of extensions that are already available in Extend Offline.

Updating to the current release using ImagingSystemUpdate.exe

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information about how to update to the current release using ImagingSystemUpdate.exe.

Requirements


✅	CAST Imaging installed	The target server must already have an existing installation of CAST Imaging installed on it.
✅	Check supported update path	Please check the update matrix to ensure that your update path is supported.
✅	Backup	CAST highly recommends performing a data backup before you start the upgrade process. When upgrading from ≤ 1.11 to ≥ 2.0, a backup is mandatory due to a data transformation process that is required for a new release of Neo4j.
✅	Installation location	It is not necessary for the existing installation to be installed in the default location (%PROGRAMFILES%\CAST\ImagingSystem) - the installer will locate the existing installation automatically.

Technical information

Updating an existing installation of CAST Imaging requires that you run the ImagingSystemUpdate.exe installer. This update installer will update the existing installation to the new version. With regard to Application data - all data that has already been imported into CAST Imaging will be retained and can be viewed in the newly updated CAST Imaging installation without any further action.

User authentication

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes how to configure user authentication for th e CAST dashboards.

Introduction

The CAST dashboards have various authentication modes available for use:

Mode

Description

Default authentication This mode is active by default and relies on simple username/password authentication defined in the application-security-default.xml configuration file within the web application.

Standard LDAP

This mode is inactive by default and allows users to authenticate with a standard LDAP server. For example:

User Guide - Application scope

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The Application scope is the default “view” for any Application. It presents items in the Application in varying different grouping methods and in different layers:

Click to enlarge


In versions ≥ 2.19
In versions ≥ 2.18
In versions≤ 2.17

Accessing the Application scope

To access the Application scope, click the Application scope entry in the Investigation panel - this is default selection when first entering an Application:

User Guide - GUI - Welcome Page - Imaging Advisor

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Imaging Advisor provides information about the status of your application (i.e., the level of “cloud readiness” of your application) with regard to a migration to a cloud provider such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) or Oracle Cloud. A series of checks are run against the application and the result of these checks is presented in a way which makes it easy to see which objects in your application may need work to ensure a smooth migration to the given cloud provider (for example, removal if they are not supported in a cloud environment).

User Guide - Search for items

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Info

Summary: A description of the various search methods available in CAST Imaging.

Current view search

Info

The search option is limited to the current view.

The current view search option allows you to search an item in the Current view andthen highlight them in the view. It can be accessed by clicking the Search icon:

When clicked, the search panel will be displayed, listing all items currently displayed in the view:

User Guide JAF - V1.5 Build 7

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Release Updates

Naming convention and extension of the triplets backup which is triggered during automation rescan is standardized.
New check point added in the workflow to enable back ups after the rescan.
New parameter added to avoid snapshot deletion in all possible rescan cases.
Correct build number shown while testing server connection.
Added fix in load balancing to avoid a particular analysis server when that server is down.
New check point added in the workflow to enable execute a batch script.

Known Issues

None

CAST AIP Automation Solution

AIP Automation Solution is based on the Jenkins Continuous Integration system and supports automation which has been tested against AIP versions specified in the Automation Tooling#FieldToolingCompatibilityTesting . Each application is automated individually through its own Jenkins job, and consists of eleven configurable tasks to complete CAST analysis process from delivery to database optimization.

User Input Security - Advanced configuration to improve performance

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Introduction

Enabling User Input Security checks will impact overall analysis performance - i.e. the analysis of a given Application will take longer to complete if you enable User Input Security checks. This is due to the additional checks and metrics that need to be processed during this type of analysis. However, the impact on performance will vary according to various different aspects related to the Applications you are analyzing:

Number of lines of code (LOC)
Number of objects after analysis
Number of violations after analysis

In other words, the impact will be less noticeable on small/simple Applications, whereas the impact will be more significant for larger/complex Applications. If you need to use the User Input Security with a large or complex Application and you need to try and limit the performance hit that this will have, then there are some advanced configuration settings that can be set to do this. This page explains these settings.

User Input Security - how it works

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Bytecode

The User Input Security feature incorporates a “Dataflow Engine” that uses intermediate bytecode (known as “CASTIL")that is produced during the analysis:

JEE technology

There are two bytecode generators:

An extension called Security for Java is available - this can be manually included in Console using the Application - Extensions interface or can be automatically installed in v 1.x when delivering source code via the "Security assessment" Objective.
The JEE Analyzer also generates intermediate bytecode "out of the box".

CAST highly recommends that the Security for Java extension is used since the bytecode it generates produces much more accurate results for the User Input Security feature.

.NET technology

The bytecode is generated by the .NET Analyzer.

Dataflow Engine

The Dataflow Engine uses a tainted variable mechanism to track the user input that has not been sanitized. The engine will track vulnerabilities via tainted data that flows from the user input down to the target methods, as shown in the image below showing an “SQL Injection” scenario:

User roles - 2.x and above

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Info

Summary: This section describes how to configureroles for users/groups in **≥**2.x.

How are roles managed in ≥ 2.x?

Roles are managed in a graphical user interface. This interface is available to users that have been assigned the **ADMIN role**and can be accessed by clicking the User Configuration option in the user menu:

The interface is then displayed. There are two panels that are relevant for roles: Profiles and Users. By default the Profiles tab is displayed.

Validate using alerts and logs

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Introduction

Use the a variety of meansto check for alerts and consult log messages:

Missing dependencies/JAR file alerts

“Missing dependencies/JAR file” type alerts, are particularly important for the accuracy of the overall analysis results - for example if JAR files referenced in the source code (for example via a Maven pom.xml file) cannot be found then some objects will not be created, links will be missing, transactions will be incomplete etc. It is therefore crucial to check your configuration to avoid these alerts.

What is new

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Release - 2.20

2.20.10-funcrel

Release Notes - 2.20.10-funcrel

Internal and customer bug fixes.

2.20.9-funcrel

Release Notes - 2.20.9-funcrel

Internal and customer bug fixes.

2.20.8-funcrel

Release Notes - 2.20.8-funcrel

Internal and customer bug fixes.

2.20.7-funcrel

Release Notes - 2.20.7-funcrel

Internal and customer bug fixes.

2.20.6-funcrel

Release Notes - 2.20.6-funcrel

Minor feature improvements, internal and customer bug fixes.

2.20.5-funcrel

Release Notes - 2.20.5-funcrel

Customer bug fixes.

2.20.4-funcrel

Release Notes - 2.20.4-funcrel

Customer bug fixes.

What is new in the Engineering Dashboard

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2.x

Release - 2.12.11-funcrel

Added Action Plan Exclusion, allowing Action Plan items to be excluded from quality calculations via a request-and-review workflow. Disabled by default and enabled with the actionPlanExclusion parameter in ed.json. See Engineering Dashboard - Action Plan.
Added support for OWASP 2025 and CWE Top 25 2025 reports.

Release Notes - 2.12.x

Release - 2.12.10-funcrel

Customer bug fixes and minor improvements

Release Notes - 2.12.x

Release - 2.12.9-funcrel

Customer bug fixes and minor improvements

Release Notes - 2.12.x

What is new in the Security Dashboard

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2.x

Release - 2.12.11-funcrel

Action Plan Exclusion: action plan items can now be marked for exclusion from quality calculations. Any authorized user can request an exclusion, and an Exclusion Manager reviews and either approves or rejects it. See Security Dashboard - Action Plan.
Added support for OWASP 2025 and CWE Top 25 2025 reports.

Release Notes - 2.12.x

Release - 2.12.10-funcrel

Customer bug fixes.

Release Notes - 2.12.x

Release - 2.12.9-funcrel

Customer bug fixes and minor improvements.

Release Notes - 2.12.x

What is the CAST Universal Analyzer and Framework

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If you want your custom extension to analyze a language not already supported by CAST, then you need to configure the Universal Analyzer to do so using the proprietary CAST Universal Analyzer Framework (a set of categories that describe a language and how to analyze that language).

This is a three step process:

Define the language and objects for the language you want to analyze
Define how to analyze the language you want to analyze - only necessary if analyzing source code
Test the configuration files for completeness and then include the configuration files in a custom extension

Info

Please note that this is NOT a simple process and is more often reserved for CAST Administrators.

1.28

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Content matrix

Version	Summary of content	Comments
1.28.9-funcrel	Bug fixes	Can be used with: ≥ 8.3.3
1.28.8-funcrel	Bug fix to resolve issue with login for non admin users in 1.28.6 and 1.28.7 Bug fix to resolve two CVE vulnerabilities found in CAST Dashboards, for CVE-2022-23457. Refer: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23457
1.28.7-funcrel	Bug fix to resolve CVE vulnerabilities found in CAST Dashboards, for CVE-2022-22965 and CVE-2022-21724 for OWASP
1.28.6-funcrel	Bug fix to resolve issue with user authorization
1.28.5-funcrel	Bug fix to resolve CVE vulnerabilities found in CAST Dashboards, for Apache Log4j: CVE-2021-45105 and CVE-2021-44832
1.28.4-funcrel	Bug fix to resolve two CVE vulnerabilities found in CAST Dashboards, for Apache Log4j: CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046.
1.28.3-funcrel	Bug fixes
1.28.2-funcrel	Bug fixes
1.28.1-funcrel	Bug fixes
1.28.0-funcrel	Bug fixes

1.28.9-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
36807	Error running Datamart process - Encountered error while running Datamart.
36651	SAML authentication is not working in recent version of Dashboard.

1.28.8-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
35627	Security Dashboard login for non admin users is not working in 1.28.6 and 1.28.7
36321	All rules of an application are not extracted.

1.28.7-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DASHBOARDS-4518	A fixed has been applied to all Dashboards/RestAPI to close the vulnerability, also known as Spring4Shell, described in CVE-2022-22965. See: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22965 and https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/CAST/Spring+Framework+-+CVE+vulnerabilities.
DASHBOARDS-4515	A fix has been applied to all Dashboards/RestAPI all Dashboards/RestAPI (upgrade of embedded PostgreSQL driver 42.2.18 to 43.3.3) to close the vulnerability described in CVE-2022-21724. See: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21724.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
35030	Fixed a nullpointerException popup that appeared erroneously when logging in to the dashboard.

1.28.6-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
34067	Issue with user authorization in Security Dashboard.

1.28.5-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DASHBOARDS-1764	Impacted transaction section is not loading for some transactions.
DASHBOARDS-4264	Update Log4j version to 2.17.0 for 1.x and 2.4.4 branch for CVE-2021-45105. Refer: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45105 and https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/CAST/Apache+Log4j+-+CVE+vulnerabilities (CAST documentation).
DASHBOARDS-4306	Update Log4j version to 2.17.1 for 1.x branch.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
33265	Fixed an issue where “Advanced search” is not working when transactions are filtered based on health factor.

1.28.4-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DASHBOARDS-4238	Upgrade Log4j to v 2.16 to resolve CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. Refer: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228, https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45046 and https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/CAST/Apache+Log4j+-+CVE-2021-44228 (CAST documentation).

1.28.3-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
33202	Error while running data mart.

1.28.2-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DASHBOARDS-4096	Adjustment factor’s detail values are rounded incorrectly.

1.28.1-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DASHBOARDS-3909	DATAMART: Fix USR_EXCLUSIONS extraction.
DASHBOARDS-3908	DATAMART: Optimize app-findings-measures extraction.
DASHBOARDS-3884	Console errors with Advanced search selection tables sorting.

1.28.0-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
DASHBOARDS-3304	Comment list is not filtered based on ‘Security’.
DASHBOARDS-3728	SD user admin page is showing wrong tab icon.
DASHBOARDS-3685	Sorting in react tables not working when the strings are mixed with lower and upper case.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
30998	Violations not appearing in Advance search page in Security Dashboard.
30903	Data is not displaying in the report section of dashboard at first time of report type selection.
28825	Out of Date Plugins in Security Dashboard.

1.29

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Note

CAST Console 1.x is now deprecated (as of 06 October 2023). This means that no further development will be provided for this component, however fixes for customers issues will be provided up until 31 March 2024. If you are still actively using the CAST Console 1.x, you should plan a move to CAST Console 2.x as soon as possible.

Info

Note that CAST highly recommends updating to the new release of Console to take advantage of new features and bug fixes. See Upgrade AIP Console for more information about this.

2.12 - CVE fix impacts

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Issue description

As part of the process of fixing (in v. 2.12.8) a CVE found in CAST Dashboards (CVE-2025-24813), you should be aware of two impacts that require user intervention:

Using JAR installers to install CAST Dashboards

If you install CAST Dashboards using the Java JAR installers and you intend to run an in-place update to the ≥ 2.12.8 release you must ensure that you modify the following files post installation before restarting the Dashboards:

2.17

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2.17.2-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-10863	Fixes an issue wherein the case sensitivity failed in global search.
IMAGSYS-10855	Label name is changed from “level5” to “Technologies” for the Advance search Filterby Option.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
42350	Fixes an issue wherein the upload/import failed for 2.13.2 version.
43038	Fixes an issue wherein user was unable to access Imaging as the Cypher queries were taking longer time to execute in a particular tenant and causing timeouts in Imaging service.
43113	Fixes an issue wherein the Module was not displayed after hiding all modules and selecting a particular module from legend.
43010	Fixes an issue wherein the Object Types, Link Types and Tags were not displayed in dropdown after adding Linked Objects.
43114	Fixes an issue wherein Imaging export was stuck while executing function “aaa_is_obj_process_init()”.
43115	Fixes an Add Linked Object issue. The Object Types list was incomplete as the query was taking only the ESCALATED type of links into account and not the CALL. Hence the AddLinked Object was missing all the direct relationships from an Object to a SubObject.
42350	Fixes an issue wherein the upload/import failed for the version 2.13.2, when the size of the exported zip file was 4.7GB.

2.17.1-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - Highlight Path Improvements	The Highlight path now works for both Callers and Callees (previously it worked only for Callees). Now, once the Target object is selected the “Path” is highlighted without further action. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Using+the+Highlight+options.
UI - Complex Transaction Enhancements	An option is provided to switch from ‘Full Call Graph’ to either ‘Simplified Call Graph’ or ‘Reduced Call Graph’. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Transaction+scope#UserGuideTransactionscope-Transactioncallgraphdisplaymodes.
UI - Admin Center - Enable/Disable ChaptGPT at Tenant level	An option is provided to Enable/Disable the ChaptGPT feature at the Tenant level. This option is disabled by default. With this option, you may select multiple applications within the selected tenant for which this feature is to be enabled. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+OpenAI+Integration#UserGuideOpenAIIntegration-EnablingChaptGPT.
Technical - Custom Aggregation limitation	CAST Imaging is now configured automatically to limit the number of nodes in a custom aggregation to 100,000 (one hundred thousand) when the custom aggregation is configured to use an existing CAST supplied aggregation (such as CAST Taxonomy, Module, Service, etc.). See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Creating+a+custom+aggregation+mode#UserGuideCreatingacustomaggregationmode-Thingstoknowaboutcustomaggregationmodes.
UI - Tags	We have added Modules/Services sections under tags in the right panel which will have the names of the Modules/Services that the objects in the view belong to. On clicking on these names, the objects belonging to those scopes will be highlighted in the view. Option to search (like tags search) is also available if user wants to search for some specific scope name. These options will be available in Objects/SubObjects level wherever applicable. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+GUI+-+Legend+panel#UserGuideGUILegendpanel-View/Objects%3ETags.
UI - Imaging Advisor - Move to AWS	Previously for all the rules under “Move to AWS” (IBM z/OS Mainframe to Amazon EC2) only callers of the object (which satisfy the rule) were displayed. Now, for few rules callers and procedures are displayed. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+GUI+-+Welcome+Page+-+Imaging+Advisor#UserGuideGUIWelcomePageImagingAdvisor-MovetoAWS.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-10173	Fixes an issue whereing the Imaging-import failed while fetching cypher summary for Creating advisor rules.
IMAGSYS-10037	Fixes an issue wherein the Start and End Point did not display any results on a few specific applications .
IMAGSYS-10031	Fixes an issue where the Start and End Points were coming as null.
IMAGSYS-10118	Performance improvement. An update has been implemented to optimize the queries used for importing new and updating existing applications.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
42080	Fixes an issue where the ChatGPT was getting cut off in longer responses.
41405	Fixes an issue where the Cartesian product was displayed in the properties view of an application in the “App to App” dependency view.
40245	Fixes an issue wherein the modules in module view were getting duplicated after creating custom aggregation using modules. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Creating+a+custom+aggregation+mode.
41860	Fixes an issue wherein the ChatGPT was getting cut-off if the code explanation was long.

2.17.0-funcrel

Note

All new features and improvements added in previous 2.17.0 beta releases are also included in this release. See the corresponding release notes for more information.

2.2 - Snapshot Indicator storage changes

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As mentioned in the release notes, the storage location for Snapshot Indicator CSV reports has been changed from the AIP Node (in previous releases) to the shared common-data folder (..\aip-node-data\common-data\snapshot-indicator) - see Application - Overview. Therefore if you have upgraded to ≥ 2.2 and you need to consult Snapshot Indicator reports generated with the previous release of AIP Console, you will need to manually copy the report files from the previous location to the new location. To do so:

2.20

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2.20.10-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id

Details

IMAGSYS-24525

Clarified Line of Code (LOC) metrics in Imaging UI and reports: 1) Metric Consistency: Resolved confusion regarding inconsistent line of code counts by explicitly distinguishing between Application Size (total lines including comments, from Profiler) and Measured Size (code lines only, from analyzers), 2) UI Enhancements: Updated the Imaging interface and generated reports to use clear labelling for these metrics instead of the generic “LOC” term, 3) Improved Guidance: Added informative tooltips to the UI to help users understand the source and calculation method for each sizing metric, ensuring better alignment with the Management Dashboard.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
58826	Fixed an issue where users were being automatically logged out of CAST Imaging every 15-20 minutes with a 401 Unauthorized error, even while services were running.
58676	Addressed multiple critical and high-security vulnerabilities, including the Apache Log4j SSL Hostname Verification Bypass (CVE-2026-34477).
56968	Resolved an issue where the CAST Imaging installation would fail if Console was configured over HTTPS. This was caused by the login service failing to start due to missing SSL certificates in the embedded JDK truststore.

2.20.9-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-23470	Updated the installer to provide the OpenJDK therefore keeping the bundled runtime up to date without manual intervention.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
52834	Optimized the App‑to‑App dependencies link generation process for very large datasets so that the “Scanning REST calls” phase no longer takes excessively long, reducing overall execution time and addressing the performance regression observed in previous releases.

2.20.8-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Pathfinder improvements	A new option has been added to allow the manual input of the number of hops required.
Content Security Policy (CSP)	The Content Security Policy (CSP) is now improved and compliant.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-22915	Aligned CAST Imaging in‑product branding with the latest marketing guidelines: the header now uses the new CAST Imaging logo (SVG), and occurrences of the product name (e.g. on the login page and other UI locations) have been updated to the new CAST Imaging font and style.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
54440	Fixed an issue where the violations API could return the same violation multiple times across applications. The API now returns each violation only once, eliminating duplicate records.
47321	Improved link properties so that when a direct link is created via raw child objects (for example, Java lambda expressions between child methods), the names of the underlying raw objects are now stored on the link and displayed in the UI. This gives users full visibility into which child objects participate in the relationship.
54258	Improved the Cypher query window so that when a query exceeds the default 60‑second timeout, the “The graph could not be loaded. Please try again” message now remains visible and the hourglass icon is only shown while a query is actually running. This makes it clear to users when a long‑running query has timed out instead of appearing to still be in progress.
54620	Fixed an issue where importing multiple applications exported with “exportimport.exe” from one Imaging v2 instance into another could lead to corrupted data: the first application would show no objects at object level, and importing a second application triggered “Failed to get tile count” errors and resulted in 10 unexpected levels in the UI. The import/export procedure now preserves application data correctly so that all imported applications display their architecture and objects as expected, with no extra levels and no data loss.
54825	Fixed an issue where Project and Service tags on objects in a view could change incorrectly when additional objects with different tags were added to the same view. Tags are now preserved and displayed correctly for each object, regardless of which other objects are present.
54941	Fixed an issue where Pathfinder (including the “Full Path Finder” option) did not return all existing paths between two objects leaving some valid intermediate paths missing from the results. Pathfinder now correctly computes and displays all available paths between the selected start and target objects.
55605	Fixed an issue where user lists were inconsistent between tenants and selecting a user in one tenant caused that user to appear selected in all tenants when using SAML authentication. User data and selection are now correctly isolated per tenant.
55700	Fixed an issue where accessing the Application‑to‑application Dependency view could fail with a “Failed to get graph data” error and a 500 Internal Server Error on the /systems API. The Application‑to‑application Dependency now loads correctly without errors.
56124	Clarified and fixed the visibility rules for Database Migration and cloud migration tiles. This ensures that the Database Migration tile (and other migration tiles) correctly appears whenever its advisor queries are applicable and fully satisfied, and remains hidden only when no relevant objects exist in the application.

2.20.7-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-17995	Fixes an issue where an application import failed with “error while building tech tree”.
IMAGSYS-11843	Fixes an issue where a non root user is unable to copy to /etc/nginx config files.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
52720	Fixes an issue causing the “AI Transaction Summary” to fail to display with an error on fetching graph details for a node.
52873	Fixes an issue where the list of technologies and associated LOC values displayed in the “overview” page was not updating when a change in technologies between successive versions occurred.
53035	Fixes an issue causing the error “imaging.py:273 - update_time_zone(): Error while updating timezone: 470”.
53168	Fixes an issue where “collaborate with” list for custom aggregations was not sorted in alphabetic order.
53199	Fixes various vulnerabilities identified in CAST Imaging System.
53278	Fixes an issue where lists for custom aggregations were not sorted correctly.
53572	Fixes an issue causing duplicate applications to be visible.
53633	Fixes an issue where the undo/redo feature did not function to reverse the removal of a node.
53848	Fixes various vulnerabilities identified in CAST Imaging System.
53854	Fixes an issue causing analysis results to not be displayed.
53863	Fixes an issue causing “Insights” to not be deleted (when they should be) after updating an application.
54266	Fixes an issue causing the no results to be returned for the global search feature when adding a space in the regular expression.

2.20.6-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary

Details

Improved Graph Layout preference option

The “Preferred Graph Layout” preference option has been removed from the “Preferences” dialog and instead layout selection is now managed directly within the graph or workplan view using the Layout action menu item based on the chosen scope. The system will now remember the chosen layout separately for each scope (e.g., Application, Transaction, Data Call Graph etc). If the current layout in the current scope is modified, the customization will persist for that specific scope until a reset is performed. See Configuring display preferences.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-17592	Fixes an issue causing the “Classes inheritance” (“Aggregated by”) option to fail to display.
IMAGSYS-17665	Fixes an issue causing the result import to fail with “ERROR Import: error while remodeling the graph, aborting import” when the application contains ABAP source code.
IMAGSYS-16866	Fixes an issue causing an erroneous description to be displayed for links from C# Property objects to SQL Table objects.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
50159	Fixes an issue causing a result upload to fail with the error “connect() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘ssl’” when PostgreSQL is running in HTTPS mode.
50597	Fixes a minor display issue when using the “–listofapplications” option with the “exportimport.exe” CLI tool.
50598	Improves the “exportimport.exe” CLI tool to allow the generated export ZIP to be stored in a location of choice (instead of by default in the tool parent folder): a new option “–exportpath “” has been added. See Export data from one CAST Imaging instance and import into another.
50683	Improves the report generate status message: instead of displaying that a report generation failed when no relevant data was found, the message now reads states that the generation was successful, but that no relevant data was found.
50755	Fixes an issue causing the result import to fail with “ERROR Import: error while remodeling the graph, aborting import error=subobjectswithgraphrefactor: failed to run queries to import sub-objects and refactor the graph”.
50763	Fixes an issue causing the exporter.exe tool to fail when the database user password contains multiple special charcters such as “@”.
50834	Fixes an issue where after using the “exportimport.exe” CLI tool some segments/insights are not available in the application welcome page.
50985	Fixes an issue where the Call Hierarchy graph is incomplete in Mainframe applications due to the use of PERFORM links instead of CALL links.
51076	Fixes an issue where Imaging continued to display removed links after a re-analysis that excluded them from the results.
51080	Fixes an issue causing the error “Failed to get graph data” when trying to access a simplified transaction call graph.
51703	Fixes an issue causing erroneous link creation for app-to-app dependencies.
52486	Fixes an issue causing an import to fail while executing the step “merge relationship for caller and callee of SQLMetricableQuery node” due to out of memory error.
51898	Fixes an issue in the global search dialog where a random object type is selected automatically when clearing the search filter box.
52702	Fixes an issue causing an attempt to save a view (containing the result of a drilldown between two modules) to fail.
52046	Fixes an issue where a newly created role with admin resources permissions does not have access to any applications.
52214	Fixes an issue where an update to a new release fails after changing the neo4j password.
51819	Fixes an issue where the total number of objects in a report differed from the total number displayed in the graph.
51719	Fixes an issue where a custom language display was required. See Configure a custom language display for more information.

2.20.5-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-15301	Fixes an issue causing SQL Function objects to be missing from the RDBMS object inventory view.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
50156	Provides an update to the bundled Java JDK provided with the setup, from v. 11.0.2 to 11.0.16.
50046	Fixes an issue causing the 2.20.4-funcrel installer to violate Microsoft Windows security policies preventing the installer from running (caused by an incorrectly signed installer).
50232	Fixes an issue causing a transaction to not load when the transaction is accessed from the list in the left-panel.
49825	Fixes an issue with the export/import tool causing duplicate applications to be imported.

2.20.4-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
49218	Fixes an issue where Mainframe JCL Include objects were correctly analyzed but were not displayed in the results.
49587	Fixes an issue causing the LoC (lines of code) value in the “Transactions Complexity” report to be displayed as 0 for all transactions.
49197	Fixes an issue causing a level 5 node to be named incorrectly “Oracle Trigger” when no Oracle technology is used in the application.
48091	Fixes an issue causing the “External References” view to fail to display with the error “! Failed to get graph data”.
48325	Fixes an issue causing the App to App link generation process to fail while executing the step “Identification of database tables shared across applications”.
48343	Fixes an issue causing the generation of Transaction or Data Source reports to fail.
48294	Fixes an issue where the “Export the objects and links” action was taking a long time to generate the report, particularly where a large number of transactions were involved. The code used to generated the reports has been optimized to improve performance.
48064	Fixes an issue causing the “Relation between Data sources and Transactions” report generation process to never complete.
47916	Fixes an issue causing the display of multiple “Reference” links between Level 5 nodes (only one Reference type link should be displayed).
47780	Fixes an issue causing some external .NET Libraries to be misclassified.
47522	Fixes an issue causing object names and links to disappear from saved views.
47397	Fixes an issue causing the creation of a custom aggregation node to fail.
47016	Fixes an issue causing the custom aggregation References link drill down to show a blank page or “No nodes available”.
47180	Fixes an issue causing search preferences (regexp) to fail to load.
47091	Fixes an issue where it is impossible to filter the list of object types or tags in the global search feature.
47334	Fixes an issue causing inconsistent search results: sometimes a string retrieves 0 objects, sometimes the same string retrieves the correct number.
47044	Fixes an issue causing some link type groups to disappear when clicking on Hide All.
49536	Fixes an issue where the import fails when an internal Neo4j database is not responding: the import process should check database availability before starting.
49876	Fixes an issue causing a missing link in the reduced call graph of a transaction because objects of type “VB.NET Source file” are set incorrectly to “Raw”.

2.20.3-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Object Property Module filter in Global Search	The Global Search dialog has been improved to include an Object Property Module filter.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-15513	The ETL version comparator has been re-written to handle patch versions.
IMAGSYS-15148	Fixes an issue where objects were incorrectly removed from view on searching for new objects.
IMAGSYS-15761	Fixes an issue causing the erroneous creation of links from external objects to internal objects.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
49038	Fixes an issue causing the bulk tag import feature to fail with the error “Invalid sticky note csv”.
48797	Fixes an issue causing an object count mismatch for the predefined module dependencies view when compared with the “Relation between Modules” report.
49095	Fixes an issue causing the application landing page to display erroneous data call graph count statistics.
47589	Fixes an issue causing Data Call Graphs to fail to load.

2.20.2-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-15344	Fixes an issue where the Characteristics panel was not displayed when using the App to App Dependencies view.
IMAGSYS-15410	Minor theme stylesheet improvements.
IMAGSYS-15579	An update has been added to simplify various link types: 1) FIRE links are now classed as SELECT

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
47936	Fixes an issue where the active view zoom level is automatically changing when navigating between different associated views.
47648	Fixes an issue where the list of saved views are not correctly ordered when choosing the “created on” sort option.
47429	Fixes an issue where sessions are expiring even though there is continued user activity via API calls.
47358	Fixes an issue where the trusted key store (cacerts file) of the embedded JDK is overwritten during an upgrade, which is causing LDAP authentication to fail if LDAPS is configured.
46606	Fixes an issue where upload from CAST Console for new applications is failing due to a license error even though an upload for existing applications functions correctly.

2.20.1-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-14785	Fixes missing object types in CAST Imaging demo instance.
IMAGSYS-14785	Fixes vulnerability issues with the CAST Imaging demo instance.
IMAGSYS-14769	Fixes an issue in the Custom Aggregatio/Custom Node feature where selected objects not in search results are not correctly associated to the custom node.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
47035	Fixes an issue where the Call Hierarchy for callee objects with complete call graph is not considering AFTER links.
46717	Fixes an issue where some linked objects are missing from reports downloaded from the App to App Dependency view.
46420	Fixes a regression in the group functionality.
47243	Fixes an issue causing the upload of a results ZIP file to fail.
47318	Fixes an issue causing the report “Relation between Transactions and objects” to fail to generate.

2.20.0-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - Reports - New report for Added/Modified objects	The new report provides information about all the added/modified objects within the application compared to the previous version.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-14491	Fixes an issue wherein the user was unable to search for applications in the application list when custom aggregation was enabled.
IMAGSYS-14488	Fixes an issue wherein the document api for saving sticky notes failed.
IMAGSYS-14485	Fixes an issue wherein keyword search result was replaced by full object list after sorting, in Data call graph scope > advanced configurations.
IMAGSYS-14481	Fixes an issue wherein edge drilldown failed on “App to App” view after multiple tabs were opened.
IMAGSYS-14465	Fixes an issue wherein user found that columns were not aligned to rows correctly when they drilled down on edge/node in “App to App” view and exported all the objects and links as csv or excel.
IMAGSYS-14457	Fixes an issue wherein the user was unable to add more objects in custom view, when they added more objects, it replaced the content in custom view.
IMAGSYS-14456	Fixes an issue wherein user was unable to add objects to graph in search view.
IMAGSYS-14442	Fixes the latest tags issue on private repo.
IMAGSYS-14439	Fixes an issue where Custom Aggregation is now correctly enabled when the “App to App” dependency view is accessed.
IMAGSYS-14419	Fixes an issue wherein user was unable to access Manage Level 5 view, despite having correct permissions.
IMAGSYS-14351	Fixes an issue wherein the change in scope name and the drill down was giving empty results instead of resetting the drill mode options.
IMAGSYS-14341	Fixes an issue wherein “Save a view” was failing in the “App to App” Dependency view.
IMAGSYS-14335	Fixes an issue wherein the Docker images build job failed due to checksum on neo4j 4.4.29 images.
IMAGSYS-14326	Fixes an issue wherein multiple API calls were noticed when navigated to Transaction Summary tab.
IMAGSYS-14282	Fixes an issue wherein Properties API failed in Advisor.
IMAGSYS-14214	Fixes an issue wherein the same AIPID was found with different objects.
IMAGSYS-13983	Fixes an issue wherein the Advisor - Rule 1202215 was not computed.
IMAGSYS-13317	Fixes an issue wherein the user could not update the expired license key.
IMAGSYS-13229	Fixes an issue wherein constantslevel.go was not updated regarding the Levels created in rulesmanger.
IMAGSYS-13027	Fixes an issue wherein the Filter By > Link types was displaying unending loading icon.
IMAGSYS-12446	Fixes an issue wherein the plotting start and end points was selecting the element but not opening properties panel.
IMAGSYS-12248	Fixes an issue wherein the Graph was not loading in APIs Inventory view for an app.
IMAGSYS-9977	Fixes an issue wherein closing objects instance of Aggregated by > Modules, Services, Layers, etc, random colors were generated.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
46150	Fixes an issue wherein the user could not drill down on link in Saved views.
46026	Fixes an issue wherein no nodes were available when accessing a “Saved View” created from a custom aggregation.
45911	Fixes an issue wherein the tag information was not being exported in Excel/CSV.
45337	Fixes an issue wherein Imaging view displayed three structural flaws at level 4, but only one at objects level.
45293	Fixes an issue wherein user was unable to load a few add linked objects or add callees in Imaging for a few of the Objects in Global search.
44042	Fixes an issue wherein removing objects from other existing nodes option was not working while associating object to custom aggregation.
43333	Fixes the relationship count discrepancy in view section of legend if there was no sublink type for some relationships.
44919	Fixes an issue wherein there was a mismatch in count of linked objects (Type: Cobol Transactional Program) for Db2 Table between Datagraph and search views.
46178	Changed the listening IP address of imaging-etl and imaging-service from 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1.
46598	Fixes an issue wherein the filter by object types/links type drop down was NOT working.
46911	Fixes the output Cypher search missing information.
44321	Improvements have been made to provide more information about objects that have no source code, and the reason why.
46071	Fixes an issue where tags and saved views were not handled by the exportimport.exe tool.

2.20.0-beta3

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
New resource for Transaction Summary	A new resource for open Transaction Summary (with working permissions similar to manage level5 and BulkImport) is added to the list of resources that have an access permission. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/Admin+Center+-+Roles+panel.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-14291	Fixes an issue wherein the “Filter by Technologies” was not working for Transaction/Data Call Graph Search.
IMAGSYS-10374	Fixes an issue wherein the Graph was not loading (500 internal server error) in “Move to Oracle” view.
IMAGSYS-10590	Fixes an issue wherein a wrong technology displayed in Imaging.
IMAGSYS-12862	Fixes an issue wherein there was no option to sort on columns in Transaction and Data Call Graph search modal.
IMAGSYS-13282	Fixes an issue wherein the “Structrual flaw” count was incorrect in filter.
IMAGSYS-13516	Fixes an issue wherein the Display and download buttons in advance Global search was enabled with empty object list.
IMAGSYS-13726	Fixes an issue wherein the row per page was not updated after tenant switch in admin center.
IMAGSYS-13868	Fixes an issue wherein user was unable to visualize the objects listed by chatbot.
IMAGSYS-14029	Fixes an issue wherein “Object search” was not working for some keywords.
IMAGSYS-14160	Fixes an issue wherein the branching steps were not coming for Azure.
IMAGSYS-14162	Fixes a coloumn header mismatch issue in move to Azure.
IMAGSYS-14163	Fixes an issue wherein the user was unable to select multiple link types in add linked objects with same LinkTypes.
IMAGSYS-14254	Fixes an issue wherein an AI Transaction Summary Job failed.
IMAGSYS-14255	Fixes an issue wherein the Containerization table was empy when navigating from ‘Guide me to’ option.
IMAGSYS-14256	Fixes an issue wherein “Object search” based on sticky notes was not working.
IMAGSYS-14264	Fixes an issue wherein the “Search Button” for “Global Search” was not intuitive.
IMAGSYS-14267	Fixes an issue wherein ApptoApp view displyed “Failed to get graph data”.
IMAGSYS-14269	Fixes an issue wherein opening a link source code was displaying unending loading and change in list was breaking UI.
IMAGSYS-14273	Fixes an issue wherein the Advisor was not working in few cases.
IMAGSYS-14277	Fixes an issue wherein click on Transaction/Data Call Graph/Saved view in search modal was not working.
IMAGSYS-14279	Fixes an issue wherein Transaction summary not working on Azure.
IMAGSYS-14281	Fixes an issue wherein Tags was not working for multiple columns.
IMAGSYS-14283	Fixes an issue wherein click on Transaction/Data Call Graph/Saved view in search modal was not working.
IMAGSYS-14284	Fixes an incorrect view info in “Graph info” popup for Data Storage Objects View.
IMAGSYS-14285	Fixes an issue wherein the “Investigate” button of Cloud maturity and Containerization tiles moved up at times.
IMAGSYS-14286	Fixes an issue wherein the “Move to Azure” table was not displaying for HR management.
IMAGSYS-14288	Fixes an issue wherein Data Storage Objects and Database Access were missing in Guided Search.
IMAGSYS-14290	Fixes an issue wherein the third party components were not hidden for apps where it did not exist.
IMAGSYS-14292	Fixes the incorrect plotting of graph from home page (Cypher Search).
IMAGSYS-14294	Fixes an issue wherein the Impact filter on Cloud Maturity table was not displaying any data.
IMAGSYS-14295	Fixes an issue wherein the user was unable to remove selected tags.
IMAGSYS-14296	Fixes an overlap issue in List view table when the left and right tabs are open.
IMAGSYS-14297	Fixes unnecessary right panel sections in App to App view.
IMAGSYS-14298	Fixes the an issue wherein user “Failed to get graph data” on App to App saved view.
IMAGSYS-14299	Fixes an issue related to “App to App” search modal wherein the filter by External Library was not working.
IMAGSYS-14300	Fixes Closing tab after Path Finder shows unending “Calculating Path” loading.
IMAGSYS-14301	Fixes an issue wherein the Sticky search was not working from home page.
IMAGSYS-14302	Fixes an issue wherein the Saving Annotations in Advisor was not working - no API triggered.
IMAGSYS-14303	Fixes an issue wherein Saving on Advisor objects list View made the whole list, wherein the Title and buttons were blank for a moment.
IMAGSYS-14309	Fixes an issue related to Advisor, wherein on selecting one row two rows were getting selected.
IMAGSYS-14311	Fixes an issue wherein the debounce search was not working in Transaction/DataCallGraph saved view search modal.
IMAGSYS-14312	Fixes an issue wherein search was not working in API Inventory, Cloud maturity, Containerization tiles.
IMAGSYS-14313	Fixes an issue wherin the object name was not proper in advisor database migration tile.
IMAGSYS-14314	Fixes an issue wherein the Advisor job was not coming in job queue.
IMAGSYS-14315	Fixes an issue wherein duplicate data was found for the advisor database migration.
IMAGSYS-14316	Fixes an issue wherein Tag name was not coming while creating the tag.
IMAGSYS-14317	Fixes an issue wherein Advisor data properties were not aligned.
IMAGSYS-14318	Fixes an issue wherein Investigate Transactions/Data Call Graph from welcome page shows different results than Transaction/Data Call Graph modal.
IMAGSYS-14321	Fixes an issue wherein navigating to transaction summary tab was breaking the UI.
IMAGSYS-14322	Fixes an issue wherein the Link origin info was not seen in levels.
IMAGSYS-14323	Fixes an issue wherein the Tags were not updated in characteristics panel after creating new tags.
IMAGSYS-14324	Fixes an issue related to Transaction/ DataCallGraph Search modal, wherein loading indicator was displayed even when all items were loaded.
IMAGSYS-14331	Fixes an issue wherein CSV Import is failing for Bulk Tag/Annotate.
IMAGSYS-14332	Fixes an issue wherein the View info was not populated as expected in “Database Storage Objects View”.
IMAGSYS-14333	Fixes an issue wherein “Annotation” was getting created for Raw node.
IMAGSYS-14337	Fixes an issue wherein the Fetch Detailed Explanations option was not working.
IMAGSYS-14338	Fixes an issue wherein the delete custom aggregation view was not working.
IMAGSYS-14339	Fixes the incorrect node data in Manage Level 5 section when changing the tenants.
IMAGSYS-14340	Fixes an issue wherein the graph was empty when switching from “App to App” view to application.
IMAGSYS-14344	Fixes an issue wherein Level-2 Visual Grouping was not working correctly.
IMAGSYS-14348	Removed tags from sticky notes search.
IMAGSYS-14349	Fixes an issue wherein saving an aggregated view was not same as view.
IMAGSYS-14350	Fixes an issue wherein right panel link origin was not updated after adding linked objects.
IMAGSYS-14352	Fixes the misalignment of checkboxes for certain screen sizes in Global search.
IMAGSYS-14353	CSS improvement for legend - grey boxes are provided when toggle is off.
IMAGSYS-14354	Fixes an issue (Cypher search) wherein no loading indicator were displayed when query was running.
IMAGSYS-14355	Fixes an issue wherein for database schema question user had to get tables and collection instead of database accessing objects.
IMAGSYS-14356	Fixes an issue wherein user was unable to save focus view.
IMAGSYS-14375	Fixes an issue wherein the drop down list from guided search was displaying in custom aggregation view.
IMAGSYS-14381	Fixes an issue wherein the service path was not selected for guided path: “Enrich >Add/modify tags or annotations >Service >Service Name”.
IMAGSYS-14390	Fixes an issue wherein the loader was not aligned in centre on sticky notes search.
IMAGSYS-14394	Fixes Add callers/ callees when some object types are hidden causes relationships to reappear.
IMAGSYS-14402	Fixes an issue wherein the Objects failed to load after navigating in guided search path “Make changes -> Minor changes -> Scope of regression -> Element”.
IMAGSYS-14403	Fixes an issue wherein no additional details were displayed in “App to App” view.
IMAGSYS-14406	Fixes an issue wherein the Object Type and Link Types was not populated in Add Linked Objects.
IMAGSYS-14416	Fixes an issue wherein Custom aggregated view did not load when navigated from guided search “Enrich > Investigate custom views > Project Structure”
IMAGSYS-14418	Renamed ‘IMS Storage’ concept to ‘segment’ for Database Access View.
IMAGSYS-14421	Fixes an issue wherein the debounce scroll was not working for Saved view search modal.
IMAGSYS-14427	Fixes Navigation issue in custom aggregation view from Overview.
IMAGSYS-14428	Fixes an issue wherein Tags were not working.
IMAGSYS-14436	Fixes an invalid UTF-8 encoding in constantslevel.go file.
IMAGSYS-3077	Fixes an External filter issue on expand all communities.
IMAGSYS-5246	Fixes an issue wherein the Objects search API was not returning correct count.

Known Issues

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-14457	Unable to add more objects in the graph for a custom view.
IMAGSYS-14455	Use aipLinkType to infer accurate LinkType Impact: There is no elimination of Java Instantiated Methods, Cobol Data/File Link nodes and .NET Instantiated nodes. Links that had a link FIRE with a subtype insert between triggers and the table have been categorised as INSERT instead of FIRE.
IMAGSYS-14429	Bookmarks occurrences issue in advisor source code viewer.

2.20.0-beta2

New Features

Summary

Details

Cypher search - Beta

Cypher search is now available on the Global search in a new tab called ‘Cypher.’ The feature is currently in beta. Users can now type Cypher queries to search for objects, view them as a list, and plot them upon selection. If the user searches for anything other than objects, the checkbox selection will remain hidden. In the case of an invalid Cypher query, we show the appropriate message during query execution..

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - Custom Aggregation	Custom Aggregation UI has been revamped. There is a toggle to go to custom aggregation in the header. Imaging Toolbar and Header has been introduced in Custom Aggregation view. The position of the buttons has been revised and the view design is now aligned with that of Imaging.
UI - Create custom node Modal	Create custom node search modal design in custom aggregation is now aligned with the new search modal design.
UI - Relationships	Vendor information is displayed for “References” links and the same is available in the link properties.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-10621	Fixes an issue wherein closing right menu and switching the tab lead to re-opening of the right menu.
IMAGSYS-10704	Fixes an issue wherein the “Saved view” mode was displayed as Graph view.
IMAGSYS-11179	Fixes an issue wherein the “Badge count” was displyaed on sub-object view.
IMAGSYS-11950	Fixes an issue wherein the selection of tabs and closing of tabs was restricted when sub-objects pop-up is opened.
IMAGSYS-12248	Fixes an issue wherein the Graph was not loading in APIs Inventory view an application.
IMAGSYS-12536	Fixes an issue wherein the configuration is missing in imagingetl.json post Imaging upgrade.
IMAGSYS-12820	Fixes an issue wherein the drawing persisted when user changed to another saved view or any other view.
IMAGSYS-12842	Fixes a blank custom view when plotting ‘Object search’ on Home page.
IMAGSYS-12934	Fixes an issue wherein an Object was highlighted though there were no Insights for the selected object.
IMAGSYS-12976	Fixes an issue wherein clicking on External References Tile on Welcome Page displayed an error if the application did not have the External References.
IMAGSYS-13026	Fixes an issue wherein opening “App to App” custom view was breaking UI.
IMAGSYS-13257	Fixes an import error: “Neo4jError: Neo.DatabaseError.Statement.ExecutionFailed (Cannot handle negative start index nor negative length)”.
IMAGSYS-13312	Fixes an issue wherein the “Loading animation” was not displayed in Cloud Maturity detailed view on mount.
IMAGSYS-13517	Fixes an issue wherein switching to Insights in right menu failed after selecting object from Advance search.
IMAGSYS-13542	Fixes an issue related to Insights wherein “CloudMaturity Boosters” count on right menu filter and the filtered object count did not match.
IMAGSYS-13596	Fixes an issue wherein sticky notes icon was visible even after deleting the sticky notes.
IMAGSYS-13597	Fixes an issue wherein selecting sticky notes option does not display the sticky notes sections.
IMAGSYS-13644	Fixes an issue wherein the Data Call Graph with only endpoints list is displayed when drilling down from Welcome page.
IMAGSYS-13713	Fixes an issue wherein the “Third Party Component” table is empty after sorting CVE column.
IMAGSYS-14026	Fixes an issue wherein the “Transaction” search window appeared twice when drilling down from Investigate Transactions tile.
IMAGSYS-14028	Fixes an issue wherein the “Saved view” search modal does not pop up in “App to App” dependency view.
IMAGSYS-14051	Fixes an issue wherein “Advance search” is broken after navigating to “Saved view”.
IMAGSYS-14061	Fixes an issue wherein no service list was visible in dropdown for the Guided Search path: “Enrich->Add/modify tags or annotations->Service”, and the “Header” name was wrong.
IMAGSYS-14071	Fixes an issue wherein user had to remove Visual Grouping in Aggregated views to view Link Types in Legends. Post the fix, the Links are displayed in right panel.
IMAGSYS-14075	Fixes an issue wherein the Objects were duplicated in “Move to AWS” Advisor table.
IMAGSYS-14076	Fixes an issue wherein the “Guided Journey” path was not visible for few paths when navigated from “Guided Search”.
IMAGSYS-14126	Fixes an issue wherein the “Move to AWS” tile was not displayed in Welcome Page after performing “Advisor” upgrade.
IMAGSYS-14128	Fixes an issue wherein the Export failed to work in Advisor.
IMAGSYS-14136	Global search modal - checkboxes are not aligned correctly on first load.
IMAGSYS-14140	Fixes the inconsistency in selection between Graph and List view.
IMAGSYS-14157	Fixes link origin info links to be distinct.
IMAGSYS-14164	Fixes an issue wherein Custom Aggregation > Drill down on references displayed an error.
IMAGSYS-14184	Fixes the label. Changed Label for Level 5 > Show Children to Search Children.
IMAGSYS-14193	Fixes an issue wherein UI crashed when investigating a Transaction from Guided Search.
IMAGSYS-14199	Fixes an issue wherein incorrect LOC details were displayed on “Welcome Page” when navigating from “Admin Center Page”.
IMAGSYS-14204	Fixes an issue wherein the change of Scope/Aggregated by failed to reset toggle to graph view.
IMAGSYS-14216	Fixes an issue wherein the “Add Tags” in “Database Access View” did not reflect.
IMAGSYS-14229	Fixes an issue wherein the “Global Search” shortcut key opened old search modal.
IMAGSYS-14235	Fixes color of custom aggregated nodes after publish.
IMAGSYS-14236	Fixes the “Link -> missing in Graph info”.
IMAGSYS-14242	Fixes an issue wherein Save List in Advisor - No Tags were created.
IMAGSYS-14251	Fixes an issue wherein the Save a View with Grouped Node having Reference Link displayed dummy node.
IMAGSYS-4102	Fixes an issue wherein the “Publish” button was not aligned with right menu options.

2.20.0-beta1

New Features

Summary	Details
AI Token usage	We are now displaying the token consumption for the AI features, making it easy to track usage for individual users.

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - List View - As a tab on top of canvas	The ‘List View’ option is moved to the top of the canvas (previously ‘List View’ was available as toggle on the left menu). (Previously the right panel was closed when user switched to the “List View”). Now, the “Legends” section is not available for “List View”. The remaining sections work similar to the “Graph View”.
UI - List View - Right panel functionalities for List View	The right panel is visible on switching to the “List View”. (Previously the right panel was closed when user switched to the “List View”). Now, the “Legends” section is not available for “List View”. The remaining sections work similar to the “Graph View”.
UI- Search Modals - Alignment of all search modals as per new design	The design of the following search modals - Transaction/DCG, Saved View and App-to-App are updated to align with the design of the Global Search Modal.
UI - Config Center - Transaction summary	The token usage of transaction summary is reduced, as it can now be run per transaction.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-12850	Fixes an issue wherein the ChatGPT and annotation labels were overlapping with the text box in the search application.
IMAGSYS-13905	Fixes an issue wherein accessing “Saved DB Access View” displayed an empty canvas with no results.
IMAGSYS-13960	Fixes an issue in “Move to Oracle advisor”, where the last column name was source code instead of LOC.
IMAGSYS-13970	Fixes an upgrade test job on Imaging trunk.
IMAGSYS-13985	Fixes an incorrect error which was displayed when datasource did not exist in Links source code.
IMAGSYS-13986	Fixes an issue wherein the “View Link Characteristics” and “Change View” under “Save View” broke the UI.
IMAGSYS-14027	Fixes an issue wherein drill-down on “References” failed in Database Access View.
IMAGSYS-14125	Fixes an issue wherein the Save advisor without a name was working.
IMAGSYS-13983	Fixes an issue wherein the Advisor rule:1202215 was not computed.

2.20.0-alpha2

New Features

Summary	Details
UI - AI Transaction Summary	This option will summarise the entire transaction for the application using the source code and OpenAI.

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - Database Access view - Level 5	The Database Access view now shows a Level 5 view with drill down enabled instead of “pentagon” nodes as in previous releases.
UI - Right panel design improvements	The right panel design has been improved for a better user experience.
UI - Sticky Notes design improvements	The design of the Sticky Note feature has been improved for better usability.
UI - Improved global search interface	The design of the global search interface has been improved for better usability.
UI - Chatbot - Visualize graph	A new option called “Visualize in a new tab” has been added to the Chatbot allow users to visualize the graph in a new tab within the chat window. To see this option, users will have to visualize the graph from the chatbot at least once.
UI - Legends and Annotations improvements	User can drag and resize the “Annotation” at same time. In Legends, count is displayed even for the sub list.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-13845	Displaying an object from global/selective/drill down search now clears the initial tab.
IMAGSYS-13795	Fixed an issue where the scroll action was missing for the Sticky Notes feature.
IMAGSYS-13736	Fixed an issue where adding callers/callees at subObject level was adding belongsTo links without the option being enabled.
IMAGSYS-13728	Display behaviour has been updated to ensure that JCL Steps/Jobs/Procedures are excluded from “caller” objects.
IMAGSYS-13710	Fixes an issue where the Link Properties Tooltip in the right panel displays special characters in the object name incorrectly.
IMAGSYS-13708	Fixes an issue where the CAST Imaging Assistant lists objects as unused when they are in fact used.
IMAGSYS-13697	Fixes an issue where the RDBMS Table Inventory shows objects other than tables.
IMAGSYS-13695	Fixes an issue where File Storage objects do not appear in the Database Storage Inventory.
IMAGSYS-13689	Fixes an issue were creating tags at level view doesn’t update in characteristics panel simultaneously.
IMAGSYS-13663	Fixes an issue where an added tag does not show up on the object when the object is selected after clicking on canvas.
IMAGSYS-13498	Fixes an issue where double clicking on a level 4 node to navigate to level 5 view does not display the Legends panel (when it should).
IMAGSYS-13475	Fixes an issue causing poor button positioning the advisor screen.
IMAGSYS-13468	Fixes an issue where dynamic links (resulting from pattern matching in the analysis) are incorrectly reported in as static links.
IMAGSYS-13463	Fixes an issue where the Group / Ungroup option is available even if there are no objects to group/ungroup.
IMAGSYS-13292	Fixes various issues linked to Node positioning.
IMAGSYS-13213	Fixes a UI issue where the Chatbot is incorrectly positioned in the investigation view.
IMAGSYS-13115	Fixes an issue in the Third Party Component display: drilldown with Caller Callee shows incorrect data.
IMAGSYS-13088	Fixes an issue in the Project structure scope: drill down on any node causes the levels dropdown to not function.
IMAGSYS-13000	Fixes an issue in the Legends panel: Project Structure is incorrectly displayed in the right menu on drilling to sub-object view.

Known Issues

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-13905	For Database Access view - saving a view is currently not working. The saved view shows no nodes. This will be fixed in a future release.

2.20.0-alpha1

New Features

Summary	Details
UI - Option to Highlight Immediate Callers/Callees in right-click context menu	A new option has been added in the right-click context menu under “Highlight in view” option called “Immediate Caller/Callees”. Clicking on this option will highlight the immediate callers and callees for the objects selected. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Using+the+Highlight+options and https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Application+scope#UserGuideApplicationscope-Actions.
UI - Admin panel - Manage AI feature	A new tile ‘AI features’ is introduced where users can input the API key for AI options (previously located on the license tile). This new “AI features” tile also provides an option to enable/disable AI features such as “Explain Code with AI” and “Assistant Chatbot” per tenant. The Toggle option, which was used to enable AI features at the tenant level, is removed from the application tile. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+OpenAI+Integration#UserGuideOpenAIIntegration-EnablingOpenAIintheAdminCenter.
UI - Context menu - Add children and Add parent	Users are provided with an option to view “Children” or “Parent” objects for the selected object.
UI - Custom Aggregation View - Links	The strength of the dependencies between certain modules in Custom Aggregation views is available, but it is only readable by zooming in to see the counts. Hence, the view is improved by dynamically setting the appearance of edges (width and color based on the count of links).
UI - Legends - Link Origin	A new header as “Link Origin” with the list of link origin type under the Objects and Links Legends Section on the Right Panel is added. The interaction is the same as for object types and links, i.e. be able to Show / Hide / Show All (by default) / Hide All. Link Origin filter has also been added in the “Filter object and links” section of the right panel to provide capability to filter.

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
UI - Global Search Enhancements	Added filter for selecting External, Internal or All objects. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Search+for+items.
UI - Advisor source code bookmarks	Added bookmarks for advisor violation template. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+GUI+-+Welcome+Page+-+Imaging+Advisor#UserGuideGUIWelcomePageImagingAdvisor-MultipleBookmarksMultipleBookmarks.
UI - View Info moved under Graph Info section	The information about the View has been moved to the Graph Info section at the bottom of the view. The graph info section now opens automatically on navigating from homepage tiles. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+GUI+-+Welcome+Page#UserGuideGUIWelcomePage-Redisplayingthepop-up.
UI - Transaction and DCG Search	The Transaction and DCG Search Modal design is made consistent with the new Global-search design. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Transaction+scope.
UI - Config Center improvements	Link/Unlink Annotations option is moved from Admin Center to Config Center and is made application-specific (instead of tenant-specific) for better user experience. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/Config+Center#ConfigCenter-AccessingConfigCenter.
UI - Global Search Enhancements	Added two new options to property based search: “Comment before object” and “Source Code Comments”. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Search+for+items#UserGuideSearchforitems-%E2%89%A52.19.
UI - App to App search improvements	App to app search UI has been improved for better user experience. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Application+to+Application+dependencies+scope#UserGuideApplicationtoApplicationdependenciesscope-Applicationsearchoption.
UI - Link Origin Information - References Links	Link origin information is displayed for “References” links and align certainty link description in edge tooltip with link properties description in right panel.
UI - Resources and Permissions	In Config Center, two new resources are added to Manage Level5 and Bulk Import of Tags/Annotations. Based on the permission for these resources to roles assigned to users the access will checked. All default roles will have the create and read permission for these resources by default except the user which will only have read permission. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/Config+Center#ConfigCenter-In%E2%89%A52.20.0.
UI - Tags at All Levels, Perspectives and Aggregations	The Tagging feature, earlier limited to objects level, is now available at All Levels, Perspectives and Aggregations. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Working+with+tags.
Resizable table columns in Global Search	The columns of global search modal are now resizable. They can be resized by dragging the separators between the column headers. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Search+for+items.
UI - JSON Export of objects and links	In JSON exports, the fields are now the same as CSV and XLSX exports. See https://doc-legacy.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/User+Guide+-+Export+view+options.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-13281	Fixes an issue wherein Technologies list was not showing up in the App to App view.
IMAGSYS-13261	Fixes an issue wherein annotations were not coming in global search.
IMAGSYS-13256	Fixes an issue wherein some files were not getting updated on the docker.
IMAGSYS-13253	Fixes an issue wherein the “Main object only” was not working for a particular app on jnk machine.
IMAGSYS-13247	Fixes an issue wherein the icon to copy “Full Name” of an object into properties panel was missing.
IMAGSYS-13074	Fixes a shape related issue in saved view.
IMAGSYS-11632	Fixes an issue wherein drill-down on an edge failed.
IMAGSYS-13091	Fixes an issue wherein the focus feature failed on pathfinder and add caller-callee nodes.
MAGSYS-13672	Fixes the group info button.
IMAGSYS-13624	Fixes an issue wherein “Properties” panel was not visible in “List View”.
IMAGSYS-13623	Fixes an issue wherein the setup failed when AI service was already present.
IMAGSYS-13612	Fixes an issue wherein rules 1202027 and 1202001 were reporting false objects.
IMAGSYS-13611	Fixes a wrong output for the rule: 12066368.
IMAGSYS-13496	Fixes an issue wherein user could not type to search in global search in Custom scope.
IMAGSYS-13487	Fixes an issue wherein the rule 1202211: “Cobol Program monitoring CICS Green Screens” was not computed.
IMAGSYS-13464	Fixes an issue wherein UI was breaking when navigating to Architecture layer Level 5.
IMAGSYS-13462	Fixes an issue wherein the Shape Feature - Resizable Icon was not intuitive.
IMAGSYS-13461	Default stroke width of the draw feature is reduced.
IMAGSYS-13459	Fixes an issue wherein the “Group Selected Nodes” feature was not available in Saved View and Custom View.
IMAGSYS-13458	Fixes an issue wherein “Apply Grouping” and “Change Layouts” does not plot the graph properly.
IMAGSYS-13457	Fixes an issue wherein the UI broke when clicked on Transaction Search.
IMAGSYS-13450	Fixes an issue wherein the Call tagged API when new tags were added.
IMAGSYS-13427	Fixes an issue wherein the Add Linked Objects was not working in custom view.
IMAGSYS-13427	Fixes the shadow on header for main menu popover.
IMAGSYS-13401	Fixes an issue wherein the File Path Search returned with Internal Server Error.
IMAGSYS-13359	Fix positioning for global search and guided search in header
IMAGSYS-13329	Fixes an issue wherin the Global search by object types and hide filter in external/internal were not working.
IMAGSYS-13281	Fixes an issue wherein the Technologies list was not showing up on App to App view.
IMAGSYS-13279	Fixes an issue wherein the import of apps failed with new login component.
IMAGSYS-13276	Fixes the Guide Me - UI for different resolutions.
IMAGSYS-13254	Fixes the wrong description on Reference links at object level.

2.3.0 - Summary of UI changes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Grouped steps for actions

Each step actioned by Console is now split into specific phases. The grouping of these phases corresponds to the main actions available to use:

Phases and steps
Discover Create Delivery folder Unzipping source Prepare new version Content discovery
Prepare Create application schemas Set up MNGT Declare App in MNGT Install extensions Configure Create package from source Attach package to version Deliver version Accept version Set as current version Analyze Run analysis Prepare analysis data
Publish Create snapshot Generate snapshot indicators Publish to Management Dashboard Publish to CAST Imaging
Backup Backup application
Optimize Optimize CSS Measurement
Delete Cleanup Measurement Remove application data Deregister application

2.9

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Content matrix

Version Summary of content Comments

2.9.1-funcrel

This release contains one feature enhancement which is specific to the CAST Health and Engineering Dashboards when embedded in CAST Console. There are no other new features provided and no changes for those using standalone CAST Dashboards.

Package contents:

The combined WAR and JAR package com.castsoftware.aip.dashboard contains:
- Engineering Dashboard 2.9.1-funcrel (with feature updates and customer bug fixes)
- Health Dashboard 2.9.1-funcrel (with feature updates and customer bug fixes)
The standalone WAR and JAR package com.castsoftware.aip.dashboard.engineering contains: Engineering Dashboard 2.9.1-funcrel
The standalone WAR and JAR package com.castsoftware.aip.dashboard.health contains: Health Dashboard 2.9.1-funcrel

Updates:

2.9

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Content matrix

Version Summary of content Comments

2.9.1-funcrel

Can be used with:

≥ 8.3.3

2.9.0-funcrel

Updates:

Bug fix to resolve two CVE vulnerabilities found in CAST Dashboards, for CVE-2022-31160. Refer: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31160
Contains customer bug fixes

Can be used with:

2.9 - Onboarding with Fast Scan - redesigned job progress screen

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

See AIP Console - Job Progress panel.

2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Java JAR installers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: how to perform a 2.x installation using the Java JAR installers.

Introduction

In ≥ 2.0.0-funcrel, CAST provides Java JAR installers for each required service, as part of the download media available on CAST Extend (https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aip.console&version=latest):

These installers are an alternative to a deployment on Docker, however, they contain some limitations/constraints and require some additional manual configuration post installation. Therefore CAST highly recommends that Docker is used for an enterprise deployment scenario wherever possible - see AIP Console - front-end installation. If you do need to use the Java JAR installers, follow the steps below.

8.3.22 - Additional notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Additional notes for the features and improvements introduced in AIP Core 8.3.22.

CAST Transaction Configuration Center

Saving empty transaction objects - new feature

Transactions are more and more frequently used for purposes other than AFP/AEP counting. However, the concept of “Transaction” was until now strongly Function Points-oriented, meaning Transactions which did not access any Data Entity or End Point did not always have their objects saved. This new feature aims to change the way such Transactions are collected and managed.

ACH - Change application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Up-to-date documentation can be found here: CAST Architecture Checker.

ACH - Copyright Notice

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Up-to-date documentation can be found here: CAST Architecture Checker.

ACH - Edit menu

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Up-to-date documentation can be found here: CAST Architecture Checker.

Admin Center - Configuring data source

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Available in CAST Imaging ≥ 2.15.

Introduction

The datasource icon , available in Applications tile, allows you to add/update a datasource (a datasource is a PostgreSQL instance where an application’s source code data is stored) specifically for configuring the source code viewer. In previous releases of CAST Imaging (≤ 2.14), configuring the datasource for the source code viewer involved manually updating .properties files or running specific commands for Docker deployments.

Administration Center - Nodes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: documentation for the Nodes panel in the Console Administration Center.

Accessing the Nodes panel

Note

When using Console standalone mode, the Nodes panel is not available since Standalone mode only allows the use of one Node.

Now move to the Nodes panel:

Info

Options available in the Nodes panel are global to the entire Console, i.e. all Applications managed in the Console.

Administration Center - Settings - Assessment Model Strategy

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Settings

Info

Available in ≥ 1.23.

This feature allows you to apply the same Assessment Model customization to all applications managed in Console:

Disabled Default position: Assessment Model customization is managed on a per Application basis in the Application - Config - Assessment Model page. All users that have permission to interact with a given application will be able to make changes to the Assessment Model settings for that application.

Enabled

When enabled:

Administration Center - Settings - Imaging Settings

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The process of exporting and importing data into a CAST Imaging instance has previously been a manual process that must be actioned following the completion of either a snapshot or an analysis. This panel provides the settings required to fully automate this data export and import as part of the standard onboarding and rescan processes, so that when these processes are complete, all data is ready to use in CAST Imaging without having to perform any additional manual actions.

Advanced - Links with external objects stored in the Analysis Service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In previous versions of CAST, links to external objects stored in the Analysis Service (i.e. objects that have resulted from another analysis) were created by specifying the numerical identifiers of objects in the CAST Analysis Service (using the properties “externalCaller” and/or “externalCallee” from the “link” category).

In addition to this, there are two further methods:

Creating a reference that represents an object in the Analysis Service
Calling one or more customer developed stored procedures to retrieve the called or calling object’s identifier

Creating a reference that represents an object in the Analysis Service

This method involves creating a reference that represents an object in the database: the appropriate type is “uaxDBRef”. Then to create a link with this reference, you need to define the reference as a caller or callee, exactly as if the object was an object created in the current Universal Importer job. The conversion to the Analysis Service identifier is automatic.

Advanced onboarding for CAST Imaging - validate and accept the version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The AIP Super Operator is responsible for validating the source code delivered before accepting the version and proceeding with the configuration and execution of the analysis.

Info

avoid time consuming rework and delay due to incomplete delivery
improve accuracy of analysis
ensure consistency with analysis scope (application boundary)

Typically issues at this stage are due to missing files and other deficiencies that result in an incomplete source code delivery. Resolution includes either a request for the missing component or the decision (wherever possible) to proceed with a redefined analysis boundary that excludes the undelivered components.

Advanced rescan - validate and accept the version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The AIP Super Operator is responsible for validating the source code delivered before accepting the version and proceeding with the configuration and execution of the analysis.

Info

avoid time consuming rework and delay due to incomplete delivery
improve accuracy of analysis
ensure consistency with analysis scope (application boundary)

Advanced rescan for CAST Imaging - validate and accept the version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The AIP Super Operator is responsible for validating the source code delivered before accepting the version and proceeding with the configuration and execution of the analysis.

Info

avoid time consuming rework and delay due to incomplete delivery
improve accuracy of analysis
ensure consistency with analysis scope (application boundary)

AIP Console

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AIP Console is available here: https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aip.console&version=latest. Release Notes can be found here: Release Notes.

AIP Console - 2.x - Install process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AIP Console - AIP Console Tools - Add Version Error - Build Failure

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When initiating the Add Version step in AIP Console through the Jenkins, the analysis fails with error - Build Failure

Observed in AIP console versions

Release	Yes/No
AIP Console V1	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Create a new version in AIP Console from Jenkins using AIP Console tools
The task fails immediately with error

Action Plan

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Add Application - Restore Triplet Error - Combined Installation Process Failed with Errorcode 1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve an issue that occurs in AIP Console while adding a new application when it throw’s an error Combined Installation Process Failed with Errorcode 1, while restoring the triplet.

ERR;31-03-2022 15:14:51.26; Combined Installation Process Failed with Errorcode 1,
ERR;31-03-2022 15:14:51.27; Failed
INF: 2022-03-31 15:14:51: Return value from restore triplet was not success: 1

Restore Triplet logs -

2022-03-31 15:14:50,762 INFO ; CAST-Combined-Importer.exe 3.0.0
2022-03-31 15:14:50,763 INFO ; Copyright (C) 2021 CAST
2022-03-31 15:14:50,763 INFO ; Command Line : CAST-Combined-Importer.exe –schemaprefix build –host «anonymized value» –port «anonymized value» –casthomedir C:\Users\TKT\Desktop\Service_packs\8.3.40_Build10216_flat_for_customer –user «anonymized value» –excludecentral N –product CAIP –overwrite N –log “C:\1271\pd\AipNode\logs\external_logs\4d6e3624-76dc-4a0e-af1c-346d17727b4b\restore_triplet\restore_triplet-20220331-151448.txt " –tablespace pg_default –database postgres –cryptedpassword CRYPTED2:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX –workingdir C:\Users\TKT/Appdata/Local/Temp\CAST\CAST\8.3”
2022-03-31 15:14:51,217 ERROR ; ‘VERSION’
2022-03-31 15:14:51,218 ERROR ; Aborting CastCombinedImporter.

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Add version - Fails with error The file you are trying to upload exceeds the available space on the server

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve the below errors that you may receive when adding a version of an application to the CAST AIP Console.

ERROR com.castsoftware.common.web.CommonExceptionHandler - The file you are trying to upload exceeds the remaining space on the server : {displaySize} remaining
com.castsoftware.webi.common.exceptions.InvalidRequestException: The file you are trying to upload exceeds the remaining space on the server : {displaySize} remaining

Applicable Platform

AIP Platform	Yes/No
CAST AIP 8.3	✅

AIP Console Version	Yes/No
AIP Console 1.27.x or greater	✅

Action Plan

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Attaching package to version - ERROR - cast.dmt.engine.extractor.jee.maven.http.connectionFailed Unkown format id

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to failure at attaching package to version while adding the version of an application to CAST AIP Console.

CAST AIP Console is a front-end web application that provides a means to configure, run, and manage CAST AIP analyses on multiple analysis machines.

AIP Console - Application Onboarding/Delivery - Deliver Version - Error - Deliver version fails at install extension step

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The page helps you resolve the error of the deliver version failing at the install extension step when using the AIP Console as shown in the screenshot below:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
1.1x.y	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Initiate Deliver version in AIP Console
Fails during install extensions

Action Plan

AIP Console - Application Scan - Error - Invalid Connection profile name xxxxxx

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The page helps you resolve the error - “Invalid Connection profile name “” when trying to run analysis or delete a version from AIP Console -

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
1.1x.y	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	❌
Microsoft SQL Server	❌
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Create packages in AIP Console
Initiate the Analysis or Try to Delete the version.

Error stack is shown below

AIP Console - Architecture Studio - Templates

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section provides instructions for working with Templates in the Architecture Studio.

Introduction

Model Templates are in essence Architecture/Quality Rule models that can be used as a basis for building new models - i.e. they can facilitate the creation of new Architecture Models or new Quality Rule models:

Some templates are supplied with Console (Product templates)
Templates can be created manually from existing models or templates (User Defined templates)

Available options

The Templates section is hidden by default. Click the Show Templates button in the Architecture Studio to display it:

AIP Console - Config Files

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to config files of the CAST AIP Console.

CAST AIP Console is a front end web application which provides a means to configure, run, and manage CAST AIP analyses on multiple analysis machines.

AIP Console - Extend - Error - Unable to Update Extension after Upgrading Console above 1.25.x - The operation has timed out

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

After upgrading to AIP Console > 1.25x, when trying to download an extension, it gives the error -

INF: 2021-09-03 12:45:51: Downloading extension ‘com.castsoftware.JEE-MavenHttp.4.1.0’
The operation has timed out.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at System.Net.WebClient.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadBits(WebRequest request, Stream writeStream)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadDataInternal(Uri address, WebRequest& request)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(Uri address)
at ExtendCli.Core.Apis.BaseExtendApi.GetJsonFromQuery[T](Uri uri, String apiKey)
at ExtendCli.Core.Apis.ExtendPackageApi.GetPackages(String id, String apiKey)
at ExtendCli.Core.Packaging.AmbitPackageResolver.GetApiPackages(String id)
at ExtendCli.Core.Packaging.AmbitPackageResolver.ResolveDependencyTree(String id, String version, Boolean skipDependencies)
at ExtendCli.Core.Packaging.PackageManager.InstallPackage(String id, String version, IPackageSearchOptions options)
at ExtendCli.Cli.Commands.InstallCommand.OnExecute(CommandLineApplication cmd)

AIP Console - Extend - Offline extend - Unable to update new extensions to the offline extend service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When uploading new extensions to the Offline Extend Service, we have the below error -
This page will help you upload new Extensions to the Offline Extend Service when you come across the error.

Observed in CAST Extension Version,

Release	Yes/No
1.12.x	✅
1.11.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Follow the below page to update new extensions to the Offline Extend Service - Update CAST Extend Offline with new content

Action Plan

AIP Console - Information - How to configure the AIP Console to view the Applications in Engineering Dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides information on how to configure the AIP Console to access the Engineering Dashboard for all applications.

For more information on the AIP Console, refer to:

Official documentation for AIP Console: AIP Console
For Engineering Dashboard for AIP Console, please see this page: Engineering Dashboard User Guide

CAST Component Version

Release	Yes/No
1.12.0	✅
1.11.0	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Details

AIP Console - Installation - Back End Installation of AIP Node

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to the back end installation of the CAST AIP Console.

CAST AIP Console is a front end web application which provides a means to configure, run, and manage CAST AIP analyses on multiple analysis machines.

AIP Console - Running AIP Console Node Services - Error - Action cannot be launched

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

The purpose of this page is to assist with the resolution of the issue when the message ‘Action cannot be launched’ is seen in the AIP console as shown in the screenshot below:

Observed in CAST Extension Version,

Release	Yes/No
1.8	✅
1.9	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	N/A
Microsoft SQL Server	N/A
CSS3	N/A
CSS2	N/A

Step by Step scenario

Do an action on the AIP console
Get the error message

Action Plan

AIP Console - Upgrade - AIP Node Service does not start after upgrade

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

After upgrading AIP Console to 1.24, it is observed that the AIP Node service is not starting.

Error stack is as shown below -

03:27:56.996 [main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at com.castsoftware.webi.common.VersionInformation.access$100(VersionInformation.java:10) ~[cast-common-1.24.0.jar!/:1.24.0]
at com.castsoftware.webi.common.VersionInformation$Precision$1.getValue(VersionInformation.java:32) ~[cast-common-1.24.0.jar!/:1.24.0]
at com.castsoftware.webi.common.VersionInformation$Precision.compare(VersionInformation.java:82) ~[cast-common-1.24.0.jar!/:1.24.0]
at com.castsoftware.webi.common.VersionInformation.isLowerThan(VersionInformation.java:291) ~[cast-common-1.24.0.jar!/:1.24.0]
at com.castsoftware.webi.common.VersionInformation.isHigherThan(VersionInformation.java:212) ~[cast-common-1.24.0.jar!/:1.24.0]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.configuration.ContextRefreshedListener.checkUpgradeAvailableApplications(ContextRefreshedListener.java:422) ~[classes!/:1.24.0-87]
at com.castsoftware.aip.node.configuration.ContextRefreshedListener.onApplicationEvent(ContextRefreshedListener.java:133) ~[classes!/:1.24.0-87]

Observed in AIP console versions

Release	Yes/No
1.15x-1.24x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

AIP Console package upgrade

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section describes the upgrade process for the Front-end AIP Console package (which includes embedded Dashboards).

Step 1 - Perform a backup

CAST highly recommends that you backup the AIP Console data folder before proceeding - this is so that a roll back can be actioned if necessary. This is achieved simply by copying the folder to another unrelated location.

Step 2 - Run the JAR installer

Double click the executable .JAR file as provided with the installation media. If you are using OpenJDK or you are using a Linux environment, you may not be able to execute the .JAR file, instead use the following command to open the .JAR in GUI mode :

AIP Core - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AIP Core (https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aipimaging&version=latest) Release Notes can be accessed here: Release Notes.

AIP Core - Release Notes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

AIP Core for Imaging (https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.aipimaging&version=latest) was first released on 12 February 2021 as 8.3.31.
Release Notes can be accessed here: Release Notes.

AIP Node package - back-end installation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for your back-end Node service installation.

Introduction

You will need to run the installer on each Node instance (i.e. a machine on which AIP Core is already installed) that you want to manage with Console.

Info

To run the setup, local Administrator privileges are required.

GUI installation

To start the installation, double click the executable JAR file as provided with the installation media. If you are unable to execute the .JAR file, use the following command to open the JAR in GUI mode:

AIP Node package - back-end installation for CAST Imaging

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for your back-end Node service installation.

Introduction

You will need to run the installer on each Node instance (i.e. a machine on which AIP Core is already installed) that you want to manage with Console.

Info

To run the setup, local Administrator privileges are required.

GUI installation

AIP Node service - back-end installation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: step-by-step instructions for your back-end Node service installation.

Introduction

You will need to run the installer on each Node instance (i.e. a machine on which AIP Core is already installed) that you want to manage with Console.

Info

To run the setup, local Administrator privileges are required.

GUI installation

AnaMan - User Defined Module - Information - Explicit List

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌
7.2.x	❌
7.0.x	✅

Table of Content

Introduction

This document provided sample SQL scripts for explicit lists.

SQL Script to pick up Java Packages

This script is needed when defining User Defined Module on java results with a filter of type OBJECT PATH.

In effect, Java Packages are not stored in the knowledge base with their path but rather with their full names and therefore, are not included in the result of a filter of type OBJECT PATH.

Application - Config - Analysis - Working with Execution Groups

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: an explanation of Execution Groups and how they work. Available in v. ≥ 1.17.

Introduction

Execution Groups are an advanced level feature of Console that represent how auto-generated Analysis Units (i.e source code and configuration details) are analyzed. Depending on a variety of factors, multiple Analysis Units may be grouped together into one Execution Group, or one Execution Group may be created for each Analysis Unit.

Their objectives are as follows:

Application - Config - Modules

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: These options enable you to configure how Modules are configured in your Application analysis.

Introduction

Modules are used extensively in CAST Imaging and CAST Dashboards as a means to configure analysis results into meaningful groups or sets for display purposes:

Indeed, objects that are not part of a module:

cannot be seen in CAST Imaging/CAST Dashboards
cannot be included in Architecture Models
cannot be included in Transaction/Function Point****configurations

The definition of modules within applications also impacts the accessibility and usability of application assessment results. Specifically, in the CAST quality and quantity model, the module is the smallest assessment entity. The definition of a module can improve the relevance of the analysis results by linking modules to development teams and application functional layers etc. See also**Defining consolidation weighting settings** for more information.

Application - Config - Summary of Dynamic Links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section explains how to manage Dynamic Links.

Introduction

When an analysis is run the authenticity of some links that have been identified between objects cannot be absolutely determined by CAST - these links are known as “dynamic links”. Often these “unverified links” systematically occur or have no meaning for the specific technology you are working with. This screen displays:

a summary of the dynamic links detected in the most recent analysis
detailed information about each link
the ability to manually review (see below) each unverified link to state whether the link is correct or false

Reviewing Dynamic Links forms an important part of the analysis validation process and is explained in more detail in Validate Dynamic Links.

Application - Function Points - AFP Count

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The AFP Count panel enables you to:

view the default Function Point data for Transactional Functions and Data Functions as produced in the most recent snapshot
calibrate the default results if required:
- change the type (ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ) and the value of each Data Function or Transactional Function that has been identifed via the pre-defined or custom rules
- Delete, merge or unmerge objects
view the calibrated functional size overall, and separately for Transactional Functions and Data Functions
view the number of Empty Transactional Functions (highlighted in pink):

Click to enlarge

Application - Legacy Overview

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section provides an explanation of the Overview section for a given Application.

Introduction

The Overview section provides detailed information about the Application - information is derived from versions/analyses/snapshot, therefore the section will be empty if no versions/analyses/snapshots exist for a given Application. The section contains several “boxes” each providing different information. Each box is described in detail below.

Click to enlarge

Access

Move to theConsole screen if you are not already there:

Application - Overview with Fast Scan - Zip Content/Folder Content

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

Info

This section will be collapsed when a deep analysis has been actioned.

The Zip Content/Folder Content section provides details of the source code that has been uploaded (either via a ZIP file or via the source folder location) with the means to filter (i.e. exclude) certain files and folders:

Application and schema upgrade using CAST Server Manager

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page discusses how to use CAST Server Manager GUI or CLIto perform an application and schema upgrade.

Step 1 - Determine the schemas to be upgraded

Browse to your AIP Console URL http://<server>:8081/ui/index.html, login to AIP Console with a user that has the **ADMIN role**and switch to the Admin Center:

Now move to the Applications panel:

Locate your Application in the list, click the options button and select View Details:

Application onboarding with Fast Scan - validate the Fast Scan

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

When the Fast Scan is complete (see Application onboarding with Fast Scan - onboard your application source code for more information about starting this process), the results are displayed automatically in the Application - Overview with Fast Scan page:

In addition, the Application is marked as Discovered in the AIP Console - Application Management page:

Checks

You should first check each of the following sections:

Zip Content/Folder Content

The Zip Content/Folder Content section provides details of the source code that has been uploaded (either via a ZIP file or via the source folder location) with the means tofilter (i.e. exclude) certain files and folders.

Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Standard onboarding - check results

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Checking the results of the various actions performed in Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Standard onboarding - perform all actions is an essential part of the Standard onboarding process. Use the following to check the results:

Check status
Logs
Application details
CAST Dashboards
CAST Imaging

Check status

When all actions have been completed, you should check the Job Progress panel for a “success” message:

Interface in ≥ 2.9

Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Standard onboarding - perform all actions - manage exclusions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Manage exclusions

Manage Exclusions is an optional step in the source code upload process - it allows you to use to exclude specific files and/or folders in the uploaded archive file and manage project exclusion rules (available in AIP Console ≥ 1.26).

Ignore Patterns

In this section, any excluded items will be ignored during the source code analysis. A set of exclusion rules will be predefined via the “default” Exclusion Template which contains the most common items that should be excluded (see **Administration Center - Settings - Exclusion templates**for more information):

Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Step-by-step onboarding - Validate and accept the version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

When the source code has been delivered (see Application onboarding without Fast Scan - Step-by-step onboarding - Add a new version and deliver source code) it should be validatedbefore it is accepted for analysis. This section explains how to achieve this.

Typically issues at this stage are due to missing files and other deficiencies that result in an incomplete source code delivery. Resolution includes either a request for the missing component or the decision (wherever possible) to proceed with a redefined analysis boundary that excludes the undelivered components.

Application Servers - Apache Tomcat - Error - IOException while loading persisted sessions java io EOFexception

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page gives solution to the error IOException while loading persisted sessions : java.io.EOFexception which occurs while deploying war in tomcat :

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Start Tomcat
Deploy and WAR
Check that the log contains exceptions IOException while loading persisted sessions java.io.EOFexception

Action Plan

Application Servers Information - Apache Tomcat - Installing Tomcat 64 bit on a Windows 2003 64 bit

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
7.2.x	?
7.0.x	✅

Please refer to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211446/how-to-run-tomcat-6-on-winxp-64-bit

Architecture Checker - Information - How to get objects having more than ten lines of code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page gives information on how to get objects having more than 10 lines of code.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

Generate snapshot.
Launch Architecture Checker.
Load “Objects having at least 10 lines.CASTArchitect” file - Objects having at least 10 lines.CASTArchitect
Check the Set Content on your application.
You can see the number of objects having at least 10 lines of code. You can also see the list of these objects & access the source code.

Notes/comments

Architecture Checker - Layers - Missing links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page troubleshoot the problem where there are missing links between Architecture checker layers while we can see from Enlighten that some objects contained in those layers are linked. For example as we can see in the below screenshot the objects “GetMessage”, “Main” and “Program.cs” are linked

But the Layers “Program.cs” that contain the object “Program.cs”,

“Main” that contain the object “Main”

and

“GetMessage” that contain the object “GetMessage”

Architecture Context Diagram

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of this document is for the application SME to depict the logical high level architectural interaction between the various technologies of the application. It also identifies the application boundary, i.e. the scope of the application for which code will be delivered to CAST for analysis, and components which are deemed as external to the application. This document is used by the CAST Administrator during the analysis configuration workflow stage (Analysis Configuration and Execution).

Assessment Model adding new indicators using CAST Management Studio

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This section describes the addition of new indicators to an existing Assessment Model

Business Criterion creation

Process overview

Business Criterion declaration in CAST Management Studio
- Open the target Assessment Model
- Click on [+] in the “Quality Model > Business Criteria” tab
- Make it « active »
  - External ID
  - Active status
  - Aggregate Technical Criterion with the right weight and critical contribution
- Fine-tune it
  - Documentation

Business Criterion declaration in CAST Management Studio

Adding a new Business Criterion in an Assessment Model

Open the target Assessment Model
- CAST default 7.1.0 Assessment Model is already installed in Assessment Models view
Click on [+] in the “Quality Model > Business Criteria” tab

Make the new Business Criterion “active”

Ensure that the Business Criterion is correctly hooked into the Assessment Model

Assessment Model comparison process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: This section explains how to compare two Assessment Models using CAST Management Studio to highlight differences between them.

Introduction

CAST’s Assessment Model contains multiple settings and values that are used to measure the Quality and Quantity of a given Application. Therefore, the results of an analysis are heavily dependent on the settings defined in the Assessment Model you are using. If you change to a new Assessment Model (for example when upgrading to a new release of AIP Core, or when switching to a custom Assessment Model) the results of your analyses will be impacted (for example a change a threshold value for a given Quality Rule could result in more or less violations of the rule). As such, it is important to be able to compare Assessment Models so that you are aware what has changed should you decide to switch to a new model.

CAST AIP for Dashboards - Hardware requirements

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Note that:

hardware requirements depend on various factors related to the Application(s) you are analyzing and these must be considered:
- Number of lines of code (LOC)
- Number of objects after analysis
- Number of violations after analysis
- Technologies used
- Number of users accessing results
due to the different factors that need to be considered, it is difficult to make precise hardware recommendations, therefore what we provide in this page is indicative only. We provide these figures as a guide to the absolute minimum required to run AIP Console and all required components, and your own configuration will likely require better hardware.
using storage/disk with high IOPS values (i.e. SSD disks or SANs configured with SSD) will bring better performance. This is particularly true for servers hosting the CAST AIP/AIP Node and PostgreSQL components where faster storage will improve analysis performance.
installations of CAST AIP on servers with resources that are lower than the minimum required or that barely meet the minimum requirements will have the following limitations:
- analysis runtime and SQL operations will be sub-optimal
- you cannot run more than one application in parallel
- disk space can be quickly overloaded

On-premises

Multi-node (Large/Enterprise)

With AIP Console v. 2.x

Component

CAST Architecture Checker - Change application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Change application

As part of the connection process for working online you are prompted to select an application (as defined in the CAST Management Studio) - this is the application that you will check your architecture model against.

If you need to change the application, you can use this option.

The option can be accessed:

From the Action > Change application menu
Using the Toolbar icon

When selected, you will be prompted to select the new application (as defined in the CAST Management Studio) you want to check using the Architecture Checker:

CAST Architecture Checker - Define a Business layer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Example

You have created a Layer called Business (i.e. matches all the source code that runs the Business logic in your application) and you would like to assign all classes and interfaces to this layer, i.e. all the objects belonging to the Java package called “com.mycompany.app.BU”.

Step-by-step process

Select the fullname property in the Types and Properties window and drag and drop it to the the Business Layer you’ve already created in Define dependencies mode (see Define Layers, Sets and Dependencies), as shown in the screenshot below:

CAST Architecture Checker - Deployment requirements

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: information to help you plan your standalone CAST Architecture Checker installation.

Recommended hardware

CPU	Platform	RAM	DISK
1 processor X 4 core	64-bit	8GB min	240GB

Supported Operating Systems

Info

Note that the CAST Architecture Checker is a 64-bit application, therefore a 64-bit Operating System is required.

Operating System	Supported	Supported by reference	Notes
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit		✅
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64-bit (Standard edition)		✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-bit (Standard edition)		✅	Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit (Standard edition)		✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2016	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2019	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2022	✅
Microsoft Windows Server 2025	✅

Supported CAST AIP releases

CAST Architecture Checker can check models against Management Service schemas installed from the following releases of CAST AIP
Extensions created from Quality Rule Models can be installed on the following releases of CAST AIP

CAST AIP	Supported
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Supported RDBMS

CAST AIP Supported Notes

CSS/PostgreSQL ✅ CAST highly recommends using CSS/PostgreSQL to benefit fully from all available functionality.

Oracle

✅

Some functionalities are not supported when using these RDBMS to host CAST AIP schemas - for example:

CAST Architecture Checker - Edit menu

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This section provides a detailed description of the contents of the Edit menu within the CAST Architecture Checker:

Menu Description

Undo Use this option to undo the most recent change you have made.

Redo Use this option to redo the most recent change you have undone.

Settings

Use this option to choose the default storage location for custom Templates:

The default template storage location is set to %USERPROFILE%\Documents, but you can override this if required.

CAST Architecture Checker - Exporting a new Quality Rule Model to an existing extension package

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Info

Summary: how to export a new Quality Rule Model as a single rule and add it to an existing CAST AIP extension package which already contains existing rules from other models.

Step 1 - Define the Model’s properties

As explained here, ensure that you have defined the model’s properties. See CAST Architecture Checker - Configuring model properties. To update an existing package with a new rule, you must be working with a different model than those exported previously.

CAST Architecture Checker - Open an existing model

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

To open an existing model that you have previously saved as a .CASTArchitect / .CASTRule file:

click the icon on the toolbar
or select the File > Open Model menu option

The Open dialog box will be displayed. Choose the model you require and clickOpen to open the model:

Info

Note that by default the current user’s Documents folder will be opened the first time that the Open Model option is used. Subsequent uses of the Open Model option will open the folder where a .CASTArchitect/.CASTRule file was most recently selected and opened. This location is stored in the following file:

CAST Architecture Checker - Release Notes - 1.1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

1.1.0

Installing a new release

CAST does not support the upgrade of CAST Architecture Checker from any previous release. Therefore, CAST recommends uninstalling the previous release of CAST Architecture Checker and then installing the new release from scratch.

Updates

Set/layer creation with Caller-Of and Callee-Of blocks

It is now possible to create Caller-Of and Callee-Of blocks using multiple link types. Previously, only one single link type could be selected. See CAST Architecture Checker - Working with block elements for more information.

CAST Architecture Checker - Toolbar

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This section provides a detailed description of the contents of the Toolbar menu within the CAST Architecture Checker. All these options are also available in the File menu.

Icon Description

If you are working on an Architecture Model, you will be prompted to save any unsaved changes you have made.

CAST Database Extractor - Options panel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This section provides a detailed description of the contents of the Options panel in the CAST Database Extractor.

This panel enables you to define the various additional parameters for the extraction process:

Extraction File Path

This command specifies the location you would like the extractor to output the Extraction action results to.

By default:

CAST Database Extractor - Release Notes - 2.2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.2.11-funcrel

Supports connection to and extraction from Oracle 12c
Three flavors of the extractor are provided to cover extraction from Oracle 9i up to 12c and using the extractor with all JRE versions starting with JRE 1.6, see Versions provided / supported Java JRE.
Compatible with CAST AIP 8.3.x, 8.2.x, 8.1.x, 8.0.x and 7.3.x

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Action Plan - Missing action plan objects - Action plan from prior snapshot is missing in new snapshot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handles the problem when the objects in the action plan view disappears after running a new snapshot.

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run a snapshot n-1
Run a new snapshot n
Open the dashboard and go to the view Improvement - Action Plan
You might see all objects or some objects have disappeared

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Application - Missing Application

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps to troubleshoot issues when the Application is missing from CED.

An application is missing from CED if it exists under Cast-MS and it’s not visible under CED.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Connect to CED
Go to the Quick Access
Observe that there is application present under Cast-MS but missing from CED

Action Plan

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Bookmarks - Missing or improper bookmarks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page explain the case when there is one object violated, by one violation of quality rule in the frame “FRAME_PORTAL_INVESTIGATION_VIEW” of Dashboard, but there is no bookmark / the source code causing the violation is not highlighted. Either the entire source file is grayed out or the highlight is in an incorrect place.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis and take snapshot.
Open CAST Engineering Dashboard.
In Dashboard locate the violation without bookmarks / highlights or with wrong bookmarks

Action Plan

Perform the below actions:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Exclusion - Excluded Objects reappears on dashboard- Objects excluded in previous snapshot still appears in current snapshot- exclusion object id issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

The dashboard does not display exclusions that have been previously entered for an object.

The exclusion previously entered in a prior snapshot would look like this in the dashboard:

Later after subsequent snapshots and analysis, the exclusion that was done for this object -

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Export All - Missing data in generated CSV - Incomplete export all from the Action Plan

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page troubleshoot the problem of missing rows from Action Plan view. For example consider the below case where there are a total of 5492 items with still violation- 2025 & corrected - 2394 . When you click on export all you can find only 1980 items under still a violation and 2329 under corrected.

You may also obseve variable number of rows exported each time you click on “export all” with the last row is incomplete.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

What is the crypting algorithm and typology used for password in CAST dashboard ?

It is an internal encryption algorithm. If you wish to have extra security then you can use the LDAP.
For more details please refer to the documentation under “Active Directory LDAP and Kerberos integration” at:
CAST AIP 7.2 Documentation > Cookbooks > Platform Administration > Portal Administration > CAST Engineering Platform and CAST Discovery Portal > Advanced web.xml configuration

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Grades - Incorrect Value - Health Factor Grade are incorrect

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide where the grade for Business criteria is incorrect on dashboard.

Figure 1

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch Dashboard.
See that the grades at application level is not correct as per your manual calculation.

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

Perform the below actions:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Graphs - The graph Mapping of Technical Quality x Number of lines of code x Number of artifacts is missing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

The graph “Mapping of ‘Technical Quality’x’Number of lines of code’x’Number of artifacts’” is missing under Contained Module and/or Contained Module section(s)

In the following screenshot, the graph “Mapping of ‘Technical Quality’x’Number of lines of code’x’Number of artifacts’” is missing under the both sections Contained Module and Contained Module

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

The graph is missing under under Contained Module only

In this case, the graph is missing because the technical quantity index rule (TQI) has not been computed for one or many modules of the application. So the graph will be not displayed because some data are missing.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Information - Get URLs sent to server during navigation in the dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page describes how to get URLs sent to server during navigation in the dashboard,

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Details

Stop application in used web server
Modify the web.xml file of the application by adding following section to the web.xml

logger.level.SERVER_REQUEST
0
SERVER log level
Start application in used web server

Notes / Comments

Related Pages

CAST Engineering Dashboard - List of XXX - No items to show - FRAME_PORTAL_INVESTIGATION_VIEW - categorized objects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When selecting some rules from the Investigation - Quality Model drilldown view it shows the following message “No items to show” in the violation panel when actually there are violations. This happens more frequently with rules with a high number of violations.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Go to Investigation drilldown view.
Select rule for example “Avoid stored procedures not returning a status value” for application.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - AFP - NoCalib

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page handles the case when you are calibrating the AFP and it appears on TCC but the AFP results in the CED appear with “NoCalib” after taking a snapshot.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Take snapshot
Launch Dashboard and see that the AFP appears as “NoCalib”

Action Plan

Check if the snapshot contain at least one Transaction or Data Function with the status UNCHANGED ADDED or MODIFIED, for this refer to TCC - Enhancement node - Right hand panel

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - BFP

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues with the value displayed for BFP on dashboard. You can refer to the below page for more information on BFP - QRL - Backfired Function Points

BFP is displayed in in the left panel in most of the User profiled pages.

And also in the below views for the label BFP -

Evolution - Quality and Size

For more information, refer to:

Official Documentation

For 8.3 : User profiled pages

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Cyclomatic Complexity - Incorrect Value - Cyclomatic Complexity displayed as zero on dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will provide the solution for a known issue with the calculation and display of the complexity on the left hand panel of dashboard. They are displayed as 0 on the dashboard.

The screenshots of the issue is given below, which will help in clarifying the issue:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Lines of Code - Incorrect value - RPG DB400 - Lines of Code LOC is doubled

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describe an issue when the analysis of RPG is done using RPG package < 1.0.4. When looking at the dashboard results, you find out that LOC is double that of the expected one for DB400 logical files.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Do Analysis and snapshot for RPG language using RPG package < 1.0.4
While Validating the dashboard, you find out that LoC is the double of the expected one for DB400 logical files.

Impact of the Problem

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Number of metrics - Inconsistent value - Number of Function points is not the same as in TCC

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When connecting to the Dashboard “Size Baseline” (FRAME_PORTAL_AFP_VIEW) view, you observe that the number of Function points in the dashboard is different from the Number of Function Points shown in TCC.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run an analysis.
Do some calibration in TCC.
Generate snapshot.
Go to the dashboard “Size Baseline” (FRAME_PORTAL_AFP_VIEW) view, you observe that the number of of Function points in the dashboard is greater than the Number of Function Points shown in TCC.

Action Plan

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - number of metrics - incorrect value - Technical Size

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This guide was originally designed for the CAST Engineering Dashboard which is now a legacy feature of CAST. This information can be useful in investigating issues with the current Engineering Dashboard in regards to technical size as well.

Documentation on the legacy compare version feature can be found here: Compare Versions

This guide provides help for issues related to the following technical size issues:

The Number of Code line and the variation are not as expected
The Number of artifacts and the variation are not as expected
The Number of processed, added, updated and or deleted artifacts is not as expected

When comparing 2 snapshots: Snapshot m and Snapshot n (Snapshot m has been computed before the Snapshot n) and the number of added/updated/deleted artifacts, make sure you consider all additions/updates/deletions of artifacts in snapshots between m and n. For example, if between snapshots m and n, we have 3 snapshots: n+1, n+2, n+3 and if an artifact is added in snapshot n+1, updated in snapshot n+2 and deleted in snapshot n+3:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Metrics - Technical Debt - Missing Debt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues when the label Technical debt itself is missing from the left hand panel on the dashboard.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Select the section you are interested in -

If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed above then perfomr the below steps
check if the Technical Debt is supposed to be calculated for your application - Use the below page to calculate the Technical Debt manually -
SQL Queries - CAST Central Base - Queries on Metrics - How to calculate Technical Debt manually

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Modules - Incorrect module content

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help to troubleshoot issues where the content of the module is incorrect. For instance you are expecting to see only Java Objects but you are seeing all Oracle Objects. Or you are expecting to see the objects of snapshot N but you are seeing objects of Snapshot N-1.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Incorrect Object Type

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues with object type incorrectly displayed on the Dashboard. For instance you expect the type of object to be displayed as an Oracle Table instead the field Object Type shows Oracle View.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check the type of the object in KB using the below query

Select k.idkey,t.typnam from typ t,keys k where t.idtyp = k.idkey and k.idkey = <object_id>

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Missing objects - Artefacts coming as deleted between two snapshots without source code changes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page handle the issue when you get deleted artefacts from the Dashboard, you can observe this issue from one of the following views:

FRAME_PORTAL_CONTENT_EVOLUTION

Figure 1

FRAME_PORTAL_VIOLATION_VIEW

Figure 2

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take 2 snapshots

Action Plan

Check if there were no Ghost objects in your previous snapshot, for this refer to the following page SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - Identify and clean up all the ghost objects and ghost projects in your knowledge base, if it is not the case then go to the next step, else the current count of objects is the correct one, the missing ghost objects are due to:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Object - Wrong object - PeopleSoft - Vanilla objects are present in the CED

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handles the issue when the discrimination process is run, but still the People Soft objects belonging to Vanilla is present in the dashboard. The discrimination of the object is done using an SQL tool job in content enrichment, post analysis. But the object is present in the Dashboard when you search for it in the search box of the Dashboard.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality rule - Duplicate Quality Rules - Multiple parameter value displayed on dashboard

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the issue and provides the solution to the problem of dashboard displaying multiple parameter values for a Quality Rule after changing the default parameter value in the Assessment model.

Refer to the below screenshots for clarity on the problem

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality rule - Grade may vary between snapshots even when violation status is unchanged

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you in investigating issue with QR grade computation between 2 snapshots.

Observed in CAST Version

8.3	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run analysis+snapshot
Launch Dashboard
Check QR grade for any rule
Compare the grade with previous snapshot and observe that grade is decreased

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

If you observe that QR grade is decreased/increased compare to previous snapshot then first calculate the QR grade manually using below method:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality rule - Inconsistency between number of objects with Violation and failed checks - Number of objects with violation is higher than failed Checks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page provides an answer for customers reporting the following problem.
In the metric page detail for the metric “Avoid cyclical calls and inheritances between packages”, at application or module level, the failed checks reported in the summary table is smaller than the number of objects listed in the list of very high risky objects.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Details

The difference between the number of failed checks and the total of listed objects comes from the fact that this metric “Avoid cyclical calls and inheritances between packages” is a “multiple output metric”. We can see that in CAST-MS (in the AssesmentModel/ Metric :“Avoid cyclical calls and inheritances between packages” /Documentation/output Tab).

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Quality Rule - Missing Quality Rule - Dataflow security diagnostics

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Some violations are missing in dataflow Security Diagnostics.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

Check if it is expected to not have this diagnostics fired
if it is not expected then Check if it is not a known limitation
If it is not due to a known limitationAsk for customer input
Check for Errors in CAST MS log
Reproduce the issue
Transmit the issue to the R&D team

Check if it is expected to not have this diagnostics fired

In some cases, it is normal that the security QRs are not fired:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Report Builder - Generate PDF report - Error - Unable to use HTTPs to generate PDF reports

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

Not able to generate PDF with HTTPS.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Connect to the Dashboard
Go to Quick access page > Report Builder
Create report based on Business Map with CAST user
Generate PDF

Action Plan

CAST do not support the use of HTTPs to generate PDF reports through Report Builder Administration Page. Please use the following work around:

Install a pdf printer (for example PDFCreator)
Click on the display button
Generate a pdf report by printing the display page using the pdf printer

Notes / Comments

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Snapshots - Wrong Snapshot Date - previous snapshot date is wrong

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page troubleshoots the problem where the previous snapshot date and the prev technical size values are incorrectly displayed in the Application Assessment Level View. This issue happens when you have more than 3 snapshots. You can see in the below screenshot -the graph displayed under the Application History panel the current snapshot is 07/30/2015 and previous snapshot date is 06/25/2015
But this value is not matching with the one shown on the left panel. The previous snapshot date and the Prev. technical size values are incorrect and does not change for snapshots 3rd and above.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Source code - Missing Source code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page handles the issue when the source code of an object is not displayed under CED:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Take snapshot
Open CED
Navigate to the frame FRAME_PORTAL_INVESTIGATION_VIEW
Select an object in violation

Action Plan

Check if the object source code is expected to be not displayed, for this perform the following on the knowledge schema:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Technology - Tibco does not show up in dashboard in LOC by module by techology section

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When examining the Dashboard results after analyzing a TIBCO application, the dashboard did not show LOC values for TIBCO in the LOC by module by technology section but instead showed LOC values for J2EE as displayed in the screenshot below:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Users and Roles - User cannot be saved since it is not authorized to access the requested

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

The document gives the approach to treat the error message as mentioned below, while creating a non-admin user:

When you try creating a non-admin user without assigning any roles, you get the following error:

“User cannot be saved since it is not authorized to access the requested information of frame(s): FRAME_PORTAL_RISK_VIEW-FRAME_PORTAL_PORTFOLIO_VIEW”

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

To avoid getting such error, you will have to

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Views - Empty or blank view - FRAME_PORTAL_HOME_PAGE

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to troubleshoot issues where you get an empty blank view after logging in on FRAME_PORTAL_HOME_PAGE view

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch Dashboard
Login successfully
Home page is blank or empty with nothing

Action Plan

Perform the below actions -

Check if the Technical Quality Index metrics has been computed using the below steps -
1. Using the Quick Access page, identify the objects names and technologies used in the last snapshot’s portfolio tree. For instance, in the below screenshot, we can see:
  2 used technologies: ASP and Oracle server
  1 Corporate : Sample_corpprate
  1 system: Sample_System
  1 application: Sample_Application
  2 modules: Module1 and Module2
  There are 7 objects used for the snapshot definition

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Views - Errors - Apache Error 502

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the below error on dashboard :

Apache Error 502: There is a problem with the page you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. When the webserver(while acting as a gateway or proxy) contacted the upstream content server, it received an invalid response from the content server

One of the cases where we have com across this error is when compute call graph button is clicked -

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - Critical Violations - Inconsistent value - The sum of Critical violations at module level and at application level do not match

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to troubleshoot the problem where there is difference in number of critical violations at application level and at module level.

The dashboard views which display the critical violations at module level and at application level are -

For instance -

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - False Violation - Avoid Artifacts with High Depth of Code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Violation for quality rule ‘Avoid Artifacts with High Depth of Code’ seems to be not correct

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Although the source code seems to have only 2 levels of if/else and no loops,

Check the source code not for levels of nesting but for the branches. This Quality rule is not dependent on levels but on the control flow.
1. In the code check if there are more than 5 branches to if/else.

Notes/comments

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - How to reset violation status

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides a methodology on how to reset violation status in certain cases. A screenshot of violation status before running the steps in this page is shown here:

Here is a screenshot that shows the status after running the steps

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

It is currently unclear about the steps that lead to this situation. It was noticed in a dashboard but the steps done prior to the issue were not provided.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - Violations - No Violation - Avoid Nested Loops QR for ABAP

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Some violations are missing for this QR.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

If the issue is for no violation for metric “Avoid Nested Loops” (ABAP), you can consider reviewing the code to see the level of nested loop the code has since the MAV3 metric computed for ABAP is with more than 3 levels. So any object with level of nesting <= 3 will not be considered for violations.

CAST Engineering Dashboard - WAR Deployment - LDAP - Problem logging to directory LDAP error code 49 - 80090308

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

Unable to login to dashboard with LDAP credentials. Error in standard console looks like following :

[ERROR]: [JAAS] Problem logging to directory: [LDAP: error code 49 - 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C0903A8, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 52e, v1db1

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

This particular error code 52e indicates invalid credentials. The possible reason for this could be improper configuration ofnaming.ldap.domainparameter in the web.xml

Recheck the web.xml (EXAMPLE - C:\Program Files\tomcat\webapps\CASTAD\WEB-INF\web.xml) for line 385, if the domain is specified correctly. For example the domain could be CORP.CASTSOFTWARE.COM.

CAST Enhancement Function Points Estimation - EFP

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Target audience:

CAST AI Administrators

Introduction

CAST Enhancement Function Points Estimation technology is an automatic function points counting method based on the rules defined by the OMG. This automatic process is described in detail in CAST OMG-compliant Automated Function Points. After an initial baseline count, CAST AIP catalogs and stores both Data Functions and Transactional Functions structure in the CAST Application Intelligence Knowledge base. All artifacts that are part of the Data and Transactional Functions are stored into the database along with a checksum that enables uniquely identify the current version of each artifact.

CAST Extend local server - Prerequisites

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

✅

Host Operating System

CAST Extend local server can be installed on Windows host Operating Systems. Supported versions of Windows:

Windows Server 2025
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
Windows Server 2012 Standard
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard
Windows 10
Windows 8.1

✅ AIP Console release When using Extend local server with AIP Console ≥ 1.25, the minimum required release of Extend local server is 1.1.0-funcrel.

✅ Disk space CAST Extend local server requires at least 2GB of free disk space.

✅ Network access CAST Extend local server runs as a Windows service on the default port of 8085 (this can be customized). You may therefore need to adjust firewall rules on the server to allow incoming connections on the listening port.

✅

Access to CAST Extend

Access to the following URL on port 443 via TCP is required in "online" mode:

CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 2.1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.1.1-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
43874	Fixed potential vulnerability on unquoted service path.

2.1.0-funcrel

New Features

Summary	Details
Added package managed APIs	Added APIs to allow manual management of the server content

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
EXTPROXY-100	Fixes an issue that prevents custom extensions from being uploaded via API.
EXTPROXY-98	Fixes an issue that causes icon download options to be ignored during synchronization.
EXTPROXY-103	Fixes an issue that could cause a failed analysis in Console during server synchronizations.
EXTPROXY-114	Fixes an issue that could cause failed downloads when user maintenance expires in online configuration.

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
43612	Fixes an issue that prevents ignore ICON_DOWNLOAD configuration option from functioning as intended.

CAST Extend Offline for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 1.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

CAST Extend Offline is deprecated. Please use CAST Extend local server instead.

1.0.0-funcrel

Note

Initial stable release shipped with a default set of extensions.

CAST Extend website

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page provides an explanation of the CAST Extend Website: https://extend.castsoftware.com

Note

CAST Extend is not supported when using Internet Explorer.

Introduction

The CAST Extend website is the main “hub” for managing extensions. Extensions can be downloaded (official and custom) and uploaded (custom) in a modern graphical interface accessible in your browser. Access requires registration but is open to all active/current CAST customers and CAST partners. If you require a temporary account, please contact CAST Support.

CAST Imaging ETL - Release Notes - 2.2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

2.2.1-funcrel

Note

This release is identical to the ETL provided in CAST Imaging 2.2.0-funcrel, with the addition of the updates and improvements listed below.

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
IMAGETL-64: Improve WCF objects management in exporter	Manage new WCF types in CAST Imaging.
IMAGETL-45: Automatic Color Management	Simplify color configuration for objects in exporter.

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
IMAGSYS-3511	Remove the hard checks on the CSV files in Export zip (export zips >= 2.1.0 are now supported).
IMAGSYS-3471	Remove the use of objectTypeColors.csv from import.

CAST Imaging System - Application layers view mode - Concept Objects - Wrong object name

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to investigate the issue of wrong object name, it means the name of the object in the source code is not the same as the one in the Imaging view.

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Import/export application
Visualize Imaging results

Action Plan

CAST Imaging System - Application layers view mode - results - LOC values for imaging and dashboard are sometimes not consistent

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

When using Imaging, the LOC values for imaging and the dashboard may not be consistent as shown in these sample screenshots:

Imaging:

Dashboard:

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Import Imaging
Compare to Dashboard

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

The issue is that when there are shared objects, the results will be different between the value of the dashboard LOC and Imaging LOC. The current dashboard LOC is being calculated at an application level, while Imaging is being calculated at a module level. In a future version of Imaging, the results for Imaging will be changed to use the dashboard calculation.

CAST Imaging System - Configuration process - Export the application - Performance issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the performance problems, you may face while exporting an application

For more information, refer to: Export and import the Application data

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check if the server is configured according to CAST recommendation, for this perform the following
1. Run the following query on a Postgres session :

CAST Imaging System - Configuration process - Import the application - Fatal error - forbidden out of memory

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

If while doing an import to imaging, the import fails like in the below screenshot with a Forbidden message:

And when looking at the ETL logs you see the following in a log (see the following page on a description of the Imaging logs and location- User Guide - Logging):

[2019-08-19 23:43:57] WARN run: unable getting transactionObjects cypher summary for CPT_-_CoPilot error=database returned error [Neo.TransientError.General.OutOfMemoryError]: There is not enough memory to perform the current task. Please try increasing ‘dbms.memory.heap.max_size’ in the neo4j configuration (normally in ‘conf/neo4j.conf’ or, if you you are using Neo4j Desktop, found through the user interface) or if you are running an embedded installation increase the heap by using ‘-Xmx’ command line flag, and then restart the database.

CAST Imaging System - Database - Neo4j - Error - Super Admin not accessible anymore

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This section provides assistance when Super Admin is not accessible in Imaging. The Super Admin user account may have been removed or is no longer active.

Imaging Version

Release	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Details

Please select the ‘imaging’ database and run the following:. For using this refer CAST Imaging System - Information - How to access Neo4j

MATCH (r:Role {Name: ‘Super Admin’})<-[:HAS_ROLE]-(k) RETURN k.Name, labels(k)

 2. ```java
MATCH (r:Role {Name: 'Super Admin'})<-[:HAS_ROLE]-(k:User)<-[:CONTAINS_USER]-(sm:SecurityMode) RETURN k.Name, sm.Name

The first query returns the user name and role. The second query returns the user name and type of access they are authorized for (such as ‘LDAP’)

CAST Imaging System - Export options - Fatal Error - Unsupported scenario -There are multiple applications under same local schema

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to resolve the issue when Imaging export might fail with the below error:

Unsupported scenario : There are multiple applications under same local schema : [Application(name=CashManagement), Application(name=CashManagementBigData)]

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Launch Imaging Export
Observe it fails

Action Plan

CAST Imaging System - GUI - Login - Authentication - Login failure due to exception liquibas exception LockException Could not acquire change log lock

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will guide you to solve the login error ‘Could not acquire change log lock’ when imaging is configured to use LDAP authentication

Error Log :

Caused by: liquibase.exception.LockException: Could not acquire change log lock.

For more information refer to : Configuring authentication using LDAP/LDAPS

Applicable Platform

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

Configure LDAP authentication in imaging.
Restart service “CAST Imaging - login service”.
Login fails due to error “Incorrect username or password. please try again.”
Observe below exception from loginservice.log(path : \logs).

liquibase.exception.LockException: Could not acquire change log lock. Currently locked by

CAST Imaging System - Information - Export application in debug mode

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page describes the method to export an application in debug mode, and the added value of this practice.

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

How to activate debug mode? To generate the CSV data ZIP in debug mode, run the following command either directly in a Command Prompt or via a batch file, changing it to suit your own environment:

CAST Imaging System - Installation and update process - Fatal Error - Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8 or newer not found in the system

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page helps you to resolve the below error when you try to install Imaging.

CAST AIP Versions

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Observed in RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Install Imaging
Observe error

Action Plan

Perform the below actions:

This issue occurs when your machine is not installed with JDK 1.8 or higher version. As per Imaging prerequisite https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/IMAGING/Prerequisites+for+CAST+Imaging JDK 1.8 or higher version is required.
To check which version of JDK installed in your system you can simply open a command prompt and type ‘java -version’ which will give you the version installed.
To resolve this issue please install JDK>=1.8 on the machine where you are installing the Imaging.
If the above steps do not solve your issue contact CAST Technical Support. with CAST Imaging System - Installation and update process - Fatal Error - Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8 or newer not found in the system#Relevant input

CAST Imaging System - Modules - Missing Object

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when you are expecting that an object is part of a specific module but you cannot find it there.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Applicable Platform

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

View module content

Action Plan

Check if the object has been analyzed - SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - How to get the list of objects analyzed from a file path, if the object has not been analyzed then CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Missing objects
Check if the object is part of a module - SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Module - Module content and properties, if the object is not part of a module then refer to CMS Application - Modules - Incorrect module content - Missing objects
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the following Relevant Input

CAST Imaging System - Source code - Wrong position

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page handle the case when the position of the source code is wrong in the file path.

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3	✅

Applicable Platform

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Step by Step scenario

View objects source code

Action Plan

Check if the position of the object is correct on the from of the knowledge schema - SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - How to get the algebraic representation of the object position on the source file
1. If the position is wrong under knowledge schema, then refer to CMS Snapshot Analysis - Transfer Sources
2. Else if the position is correct under knowledge schema then export the application in debug mode - CAST Imaging System - Information - Export application in debug mode then contact CAST Technical Support. with the following Relevant Input
If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, report your problem to CAST Technical Support and provide the following Relevant Input

CAST Imaging System - Transactions view mode - Missing link

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page handle the issue of Missing link from Transactional view . For example when you are expecting to get a link between the below objects you get a missing link.

CAST AIP Versions

AIP Version	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable Platform or

Imaging version	Yes/No
2.x	✅

Action Plan

Update imaging to the latest version, as there may be issues already fixed which could resolve your issue.
Check if the link is visible from Enlighten - ENL - Links, If the link is not visible from Enlighten then refer to Enlighten - Links for more investigation
Else If the link is visible from Enlighten then check if the link type is expected to be visible from Imaging System - CAST Imaging System - Information - Link types ignored by CAST Imaging System
1. If the link type is part of the link types ignored by Imaging System then its expected to not show the link
if the above steps do not help to solve the issue, then perform the extract in Debug mode - CAST Imaging System - Information - Export application in debug mode and contact CAST Technical Support and provide the knowledge schema.
1. For support or advanced users, you can do the following to check things further:
  1. Check the link in the export by searching for it in <application_name> _is_lnk.csv file
  2. Check the link in the import
  3. Check the link in the graph searching for it in<application_name>_is_tra_detail.csv
  4. Run this on the neo4j database on the objects which are missing the links (need the objectid of the objects matching and application name) : MATCH p=(o1:<application_name>:SubObject)-[]->(o2:<application_name>) WHERE o1.AipId = '<xxxxx>' RETURN p
  5. Run this on the neo4j database: MATCH (c:LinkCategory)-[r]->(l:LinkType) RETURN c.Name, type(r), l.Name ORDER BY l.Name
  6. Run this on the neo4j database for the type of link missing (like REFER): MATCH (o1:<application_name>)-[:<xxxxx>]->(o2:<application_name>) RETURN DISTINCT o1.InternalType, labels(o1), o2.InternalType, labels(o2), count(o1)
  7. Run this on the neo4j database for the type of link missing (like REFER): MATCH (l:LinkType {Name: '<xxxxx>') RETURN l.

Notes/comments

CAST Management Studio - Configuration Menu - Error - The New delivery cannot be a sub-folder of the current folder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page talk about the error “The New delivery cannot be a sub-folder of the current folder” on changing the Delivery folder under Platform settings.

Please find the screen shot below:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Step by Step Scenario

Cast MS preferences was set with Delivery as C:\CASTMS2140\Delivery
Created a new Delivery folder C:\CASTMS2140\Delivery1
Both the Delivery and Delivery1 are in the same folder.
Set the Delivery to C:\CASTMS2140\Delivery1
Click Finish
Error: The new delivery folder cannot be a sub-folder of the current one

Action Plan

CAST Management Studio - Editors - Editor windows do not launch

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

After logging into CAST Management Studio, selecting a connection profile, and connecting to CAST Management Studio, selecting a task which brings up a sub-window does not execute and CAST-MS does no work.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Management Studio - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can a snapshot be generated at system level in CAST Management Studio ?

The answer is no. A snapshot can only be generated at the Delivery Unit and Application levels.

Which source code management systems does CAST support?

We currently support subversion (SVN) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) through the Delivery Management Tool (DMT).

You can see specific details on how DMT interacts with Source Code Management (SCM) systems in the on-line DMT help in the section:

CAST Management Studio - Launching CAST MS - Fatal Error - Failed to create log root folder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution for the following error, encountered while opening CMS.

Internal error occurred.
The application is closing. Call CAST support now providing the log file at C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\Logs\CAST-MS-20181105-165044.log.txt

internal Exception :
Failed to create log root folder I:\Implementation\Logs

The error can be seen in the below screenshot.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CAST Management Studio - Views - Validation View - Error - Missing Name - Missing Extraction File

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When looking at the validation view in CAST Management Studio (CMS), an error is seen about ‘Missing Name’ as shown in the below screenshot:

You may also see messages about ‘Missing Extraction File’

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CAST Oracle Forms Extractor - Options panel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This section provides a detailed description of the contents of the Options panel in the CAST Oracle Forms Extractor.

This panel enables you to define the various additional parameters for the extraction process:

Configuration File Path

This field is used to specify a specific .config file that tells the extractor what to extract - it is only used if the default values need to be overwritten.

CAST recommends leaving this parameter as defined.

CAST Report Generator - Graph components - 1.11.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI).
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

CAST Report Generator - Graph components - 1.8.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI).
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

CAST Report Generator - Graph components - 1.9.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

The Constraint column shows whether the component will retrieve data for an “engineering” (AED) or “analytics” domain (AAD), and whether an extension needs to be installed in order to generate results (and if we need a specific version or RestAPI).
Due to backward compatibility, some components can have two different IDs, but the result will be the same.
The Mode column shows whether the component is targeted at an Application or a Portfolio or an Application - the relevant option should be chosen in Report Generator (see image below). CAST recommends always selecting an Application when the target domain is “engineering” and when using Application mode, as it will avoid empty results (this is because in an “analytics” domain, violations and components does not exist for an application).

CAST Report Generator - Installation process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to install the standalone CAST Report Generator.

Where can I obtain the CAST Report Generator?

≥ 1.10.0

You can obtain the Report Generator from Extend. Search for “report generator” and choose the Report Generatoroption:

An exe setup installer file named com.castsoftware.aip.reportgenerator..exe will be downloaded and can be run by double clicking. Please proceed as described in Installation steps.

≤ 1.9.0

You can obtain the CAST Report Generator from the CAST Product Center - this requires a CAST login. A ZIP file will be downloaded - unpack this ZIP file to find the exe setup installer called ReportGeneratorSetup.exe and proceed as described in Installation steps.

CAST SAP Extractor NG - FAQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section provides answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about the CAST SAP Extractor.

How do I run the CAST SAP Extractor

See CAST SAP Extractor NG - User Guide - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x.

Where should I store the Extraction Result?

Please see the paragraph entitled Extraction storage repository in CAST SAP Extractor NG - ABAP source code extraction - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x.

How can I get the version number of the CAST SAP Extractor?

Start by executing CAST SAP Extractor. When the main selection screen is displayed, a button is available on the upper banner which provides you with the version number of the extractor you are running:

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes - 8.4

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

8.4.9-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
46975	Provides an update to ensure that it is now possible to extract code from views even when no tables exist.
46975	Provides an update to add functionality to include tables created from joins inside views in the extraction output.

8.4.8-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
SAPEXTR-00000	A new log file has been added to the output extraction zip file.
SAPEXTR-00000	A new menu has been added to the selection screen within the specific function module “ZCAST_SAP_FILE_ZIP_F”. This menu is designed to retrieve all extraction objects in both string and xstring formats.

8.4.7-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
42369	This release implements a new try-catch ABAP statement, to catch any potential codepage_conversion exception reported during the extraction. The new statement will identify the file causing the issue so that this can be dealt with appropriately (for example excluding the file, or altering the file).

8.4.6-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id

Details

41024

Fixes an issue where the extraction log file does not contain any information about whether the “Consider CDS” option has been enabled or not. This information is now present in the log file for both of the following scenarios: 1) when extracting dependent tables/views the information is provided in the “ABAP SOURCE CODE Extraction Scope” section. 2) when extracting independent tables/views the information is provided in the “TABLES/VIEWS Extraction Scope” section.

8.4.5-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
40455	This new release contains some additional checks on the S/4 version to fix an issue causing a syntax incompatibility problem with the system version.

8.4.4-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Tables/Views extraction filter now includes CDS Views	The Table/Views extraction filter (which enables you to extract specific Tables/Views by directly entering their names) will now include CDS Views. Previously CDS Views were ignored for this filter. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DOCCOM/CAST+SAP+Extractor+NG+-+SAP+table+and+view+extraction+-+8.4.x#CASTSAPExtractorNGSAPtableandviewextraction8.4.x-Table/ViewName.

8.4.3-funcrel

Note

Note that in ≥ 8.4.3, with regard to the Uninstall process described in https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DOCCOM/CAST+SAP+Extractor+NG+-+Installation+and+Uninstall+-+8.4.x#CASTSAPExtractorNGInstallationandUninstall8.4.x-UninstalltheCASTSAPExtractorNG, the second “Package removal transport request” is no longer provided. This is because the authorisation object cannot be removed due to a SAP limitation and for this reason the package will remain in the system (it will be empty but cannot be removed).

CAST SAP Extractor NG - SAP table and view extraction - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On this page:

Target audience:

CAST/SAP Administrators

Info

Summary: this section describes how to use the CAST SAP Extractor to extract SAP tables and views ready for analysis with CAST. Please ensure you have installed the CAST SAP Extractor and have read CAST SAP Extractor NG - User Guide - 8.3.x - 8.2.x - 8.0.x. Please note that the extractor only supports the extraction of the following SAP views: Data base views and projection views. All other views such as Maintenance, Help View etc. cannot be extracted with the tool.

CAST SAP Extractor NG - SAP table and view extraction - 8.4.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section describes how to use the CAST SAP Extractor to extract SAP tables and views ready for analysis with CAST. Please ensure you have installed the CAST SAP Extractor and have read CAST SAP Extractor NG - User Guide - 8.4.x. Please note that the extractor only supports the extraction of the following SAP views: Data base views and projection views. All other views such as Maintenance, Help View etc. cannot be extracted with the tool.

CAST SAP Extractor NG - SAP table and view extraction - 8.5.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this section describes how to use the CAST SAP Extractor to extract SAP tables and views ready for analysis with CAST. Please ensure you have installed the CAST SAP Extractor and have read CAST SAP Extractor NG - User Guide - 8.5.x. Please note that the extractor only supports the extraction of the following SAP views: Data base views and projection views. All other views such as Maintenance, Help View etc. cannot be extracted with the tool.

CAST Storage Service - Release Notes - 3.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

End of Life Notice

Info

Summary: this page describes the new features and bugs that have been fixed in CAST Storage Service 3.0.x.

3.0.3

This release fixes a bug in the setup installer which causes an error message to be displayed where a newer version of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable (x64) is already present on the target machine - this error causes the installation to fail. Where a newer version of the redistributable is already present on the target machine, this message now no longer appears and the installation continues without installing the redistributable.

3.0.2

This release fixes a bug in previous 3.0.x releases which causes an error during the installation: the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64) was not being installed during the setup process and therefore on servers where this component was not already present, an error occurred causing the installation to fail.

3.0.1

CSS 3.0.1 is based on PostgreSQL 9.6.11.
One configuration change has been introduced: the parameter maintenance_work_mem (located in the CASTStorageService3\db_data\postgresql.conf file) has been changed from 512MB to 1024MB.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable (x64) is now installed.

3.0.0

Initial release.
CSS 3.0.0 is based on PostgreSQL 9.6.

CAST System Views - Dashboard Service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note

This method of extracting information is deprecated. You should now use the CAST RestAPI to extract the information you require.

This document provides a detailed description of each CAST System View provided in the Dashboard Service (all tables/views beginning with CSV_) together with column information. Depending on your specific configuration, some tables/views may not be available.

Choose the item you would like to know more about from the menu above.

CAST Universal Analyzer Framework - Extension consider files for analysis even through the files are not part of extension technology

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page handle the case when extension consider files for analysis even if the files are not part of this technology. For example Tibco Extension is considering wsdl files for analysis, even though WSDL are not Tibco technology files.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Run analysis

Action plan

Check if the file extension is part of the language pack. The language pack is displayed in the Universal technology editor in the CAST Management Studio:
Figure 1

CAST Universal Analyzer Framework - Information - Description Of Universal Analyzer Language Package

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

The Universal Analyzer language package for a given XXX Universal Analyzer language usually contains:

xxxMetaModel.xml
xxxLanguagePattern.xml
xxxInformationTracking.xml
A set of image icons

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Details

xxxMetaModel.xml

This file is the metamodel that describes objects defined in the language, the categories and the properties. More detail about this file can be found in the Universal Analyzer Framework Admin Guide.

Changes in results post upgrade - 8.3.45

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary:

Impacts of changes made to AIP Core 8.3.45 on Quality Model results post upgrade
Other impacts of changes made in AIP Core 8.3.45

Note

All changes in results related to extensions are listed in the extension documentation and will not appear in this page.

Legacy ASP

A fix has been implemented to ensure that the default exclusion rule “Exclude ASP projects when a .NET web project also exists” (available in Console and in the legacy Delivery Manager Tool) functions correctly. In previous releases, occasionally this exclusion rule did not function correctly and did not exclude an ASP project although a corresponding .NET web project existed. This situation led to duplicated objects (ASP objects and equivalent .NET web objects) and thus, to an exaggerated Function Points count. This issue has now been fixed and ASP objects are no longer created when equivalent .NET web objects have been discovered. This leads to a drop in the number of objects, links, and Function Points in 8.3.45 when comparing analysis results with previous releases where the same source code was analyzed. In addition, the LOC (line of code) count per technology is also impacted: what was previously counted as ASP LOC is now counted as HTML5 LOC and the total number of lines of code can change slightly. There is also a possibility that quality rule violation counts may also be impacted.

Changing Console and Node port numbers - activating HTTPS - for Console 1.x

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Info

Summary: this page describes how to change Console and Node running port numbers, for example to enable HTTPS, for Console 1.x.

Introduction

By default, an unsecure HTTP connection will be used for end-user access to Console (port 8081) and communication between the Console and Node packages (port 8082). This page explains how to change the Console and Node running port numbers, for example to enable a secured connection using HTTPS for access to both packages.

Changing the default operator and guest passwords for CAST Storage Service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

End of Life Notice

Introduction

When a CAST Storage Service is installed or when a PostgreSQL instance is installed, two additional users/roles are created (operator/guest) by default as listed below. An additional user (postgres) is already present out of the box:

Check the installation of your component

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Once you have Created a new custom component you then need to check that they have been installed correctly:

Components that have been installed on a CAST database are registered in the table SYS_PACKAGE_VERSION.
If correctly installed you should see the following rows in the table:

PACKAGE_NAME VERSION

[char] [char]

-----------------------

LOCAL_CLIENT 1.0.0.1 (pck interface for User Component)

LOCALADDON 1.0.0.1 (your component)

CMS - Add database server

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Add database server

By default the Services view will display database servers and associated services automatically using the information defined during the installation process using CAST Server Manager - see the CAST Installation Guide for more information.

However, you can add further database servers for accessing additional Analysis/Dashboard/Messurement services installed on them as described below.

To add a new database server:

You can either:
- Click one of the Add icons () located on the menu bar of the Services view (click the button that corresponds to the type of Database Server that you would like to add)
- Right click whitespace in the Services view and select the appropriate Add new <database_server_type>
- Use the dropdown menu icon () located on the menu bar of the Services view
A component called My <server_type> will then be displayed in the view:

CMS - Architecture Models tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Architecture Models tab

This tab allows you to associate an Architecture Model to your Application. See CAST Architecture Checker for more information about this feature.

Add an existing Architecture Model

Click the button to add an existing Architecture Model.
A dialog box will be displayed enabling you to select the Architecture Model(s) you want to associate to the current Application. Select the Architecture Model and click OK (if no Architecture Models are visible, you can create Architecture Models in the Architecture Models view):

CMS - ASP Reference Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Reference Guide (ASP)

This document provides some more detailed information about the objects and links that are stored in the Analysis Service. Other technical information may also be available.

Object Types

Objects detected by the analyzer are summarized in the following table:


	Analysis
	Application
	Collection
	Collection Item, Instance, Property, Variable
	Method, Sub
	Object
	Property
	Com Objects Folder
	Constant
	Folder, URL Folder, URL Group Folder
	External URL Application Folder
	File
	Class
	Event
	Function
	Property Get, Property Let, Property Put, Property Set
	Method Group, Other Group
	Global Variables Folder
	Object
	Site
	Virtual Directory

In addition, client side objects such as:

CMS - Business Criteria tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Business Criteria tab

This tab allows you to edit existing or create new Business Criteria (i.e. strategic quality indicators - either business oriented or either development oriented) that will govern how the analyzed source code is measured.

The tab is divided into two distinct parts:

a list of Business Criteria
and a separate editor to configure/edit each Business Criterion with various sub tabs

List of Business Criteria

This section simply lists the Business Criteria. The below example is taken from the standard CAST supplied Assessment Model (see Assessment Models view):

CMS - C++ Analysis Unit editor - Source Settings tab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

C++ Analysis Unit editor - Source Settings tab

This section provides a detailed description of the specific Source Settings tab in the C++ Analysis Unit editor.

Source Settings tab

Project path

The file based location of the corresponding project. This field is read-only.

Notes

When the field contains User defined, this indicates that the Analysis Unit has been defined manually instead of automatically following the use of the CAST Delivery Manager Tool.

Consider Files as Please see the C++ Technology options for more information about these options.

Use Microsoft Managed C++ extensions (CLR)

C File Extensions

C++ File Extensions

Sources

Use this section to include or exclude specific source files for the Analysis Unit for analysis purposes - these are mainly to be used when you are manually creating your Analysis Unit but can also be used if you are modifying an automatically created Analysis Unit.

Use the buttons to include or exclude specific Source Files (in the case files, only files matching the choices made in C/C++ File Extensions above will be considered) or Source Folders (folders are searched recursively).

By default CAST will automatically suggest the Deployment Folder set in the Current Version tab (Application editor) for your Package when adding new source code folders or files.
Use the button to remove an existing entry
Use the button to edit an existing entry
If this Analysis Unit is automatically defined use the button to reset the list to the entries defined by the CAST Delivery Manager Tool

If this Analysis Unit is automatically defined, then any auto defined entries will be read only.

CMS - C++ Environment Profiles

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C++ Environment Profiles

A C++ Environment Profiles provide the means to configure two specific C++ analysis variables:

Include Paths > configure additional paths for files that have been specified in the #include part of your project files. This is to ensure the correct resolution of links to files located in other directories.

The analyzer will take into account the two “include” styles:
- #include “fileA.h”
- #include <fileB.h>
Include Paths can also be administered using the Include option (see C++ Technology editor). Include Paths defined in an Environment Profile will be processed AFTER any definitions made using the Include option.

CMS - Editors

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Editors

The primary use of Editors is to provide editing capabilities for an element selected in a View. For example:

The Database server editor provides a means to modify your various database servers
The Dashboard Service editor provides a means to configure the dashboard services associated with the database server

You can find out more detailed information about the CAST Management Studio Editors in CAST Management Studio - Editors.

Display

Editors are displayed by double clicking an element in a view. In the example below, a dashboard service element in the Services view has been double clicked:

CMS - MS SQL Server database server editor

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

MS SQL Server database server editor

Note

Note that MS SQL Server database servers support Analysis or Dashboard Services for use with the CAST Management Studio.
Measurement Services are not supported on host Microsoft SQL Servers.
During the process of connecting to the Management Service when launching the CAST Management Studio, the “server” listed in the Connection Profile automatically created by CAST Server Manager for the Management Service, will be added by default to the Services view. The same login credentials will be used. Please see CAST Management Studio - Rights for more information about how server access rights and permissions are handled in the CAST Management Studio

The MS SQL Server database server editor contains various tabs and sections. Each is explained below.

CMS - Naming constraints

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Naming constraints

All items that can be created and then named within the CAST Management Studio have some limits with regard to the characters, length and names that can be used. Items include:

Analysis Units
Applications
Architecture Models
Assessment Models
Database Servers
Corporate entities
System entities
Object Filters
User Defined Modules
Versions

Characters

The field Name in the respective editors is restricted to the following characters:

01234567890
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
.!ù^é~#´{[è_çà@]=}+-°$£¾%§ñõìùòîôûê€

There are no character restrictions with regard to the field Description.

CMS - Preferences - Mail

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Preferences - Mail

The Mail settings are described below:

These settings are used to send report emails on completion of a snapshot generation or the run analysis only action if the appropriate option is selected AND you have defined a list of recipients in the Notes tab of the Application editor.

SMTP Server host

Enter the SMTP server that will handle the mail for you. This can be:

a local or internet based IP address
a local Windows host name
a fully qualified domain name

Port

Set the port number on which your mail server runs. Most mail servers run on port 25, but please check your local environment for more information.

Secure SSL/TLS connections are not supported.

CMS - Server access rights - overview

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Server access rights - overview

This page explains (using a step-by-step approach) what happens with regard to server access rights when you launch the CAST Management Studio for the first time and select a Connection Profile.

Step 1 - Launching the CAST Management Studio - connecting to a Management database/schema

When you launch the CAST Management Studio (see Launching the CAST Management Studio), you will first need to establish a connection with the commercial RDBMS or CAST Storage Service (i.e. “server”) that is hosting your Management Service (this database/schema records information that is required for the CAST Management Studio to function).

CMS Analysis Unit - Analysis Units creation - Fatal Error - Java Lang NullPointerException while adding the new analysis unit

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides a work around if you have a java.lang.NullPointerException while adding the New User Defined Analysis Unit.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Deliver the application
Accept the delivery
Try to create a analysis unit.

Action Plan

We will get this error when we have missing targets in the dependencies as shown in the screenshot below

CMS Analysis Unit - Execute Tab - Test Analysis on the current analysis units group

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*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the problems you may face with your Analysis Units.

CAST MS help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help - Search - Analysis Unit editor

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If the problem you are facing does not match any case listed in this page, contact CAST Technical Support with the Relevant Input.

CMS Analysis Unit - Execute Tab - View Analysis Unit content - Fatal error - No object found

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page troubleshoot issue related to the No Object Found error message when clicking on View analysis unit content as below :

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Analyze the Application
Open an analysis unit analyzed
Go to the Execute Tab
Click View Analysis Unit content

Action Plan

Check in the Analysis Task window, under the Execution unit that have been anayzed, at the Compute Analysis Unit full content step, that the number of objects is more than 0. If the number is set to 0 then no objects are attached to the Analysis Units. no objects have been attached to this analysis unit. During analysis, there is a task that is called CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Analysis Unit Full Content - Error Free Logs - CAST AIP 83 as shown in below screenshot :

CMS Analysis Unit - Information - Configure CPP job containing QT code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Instead of manually configuring the analysis unit (and failing to configure it correctly), this page provides information about option available when analyzing Qt code

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Details

About QT:

Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework for developers using C++ or QML, a CSS & JavaScript like language.

CMS Application - Architecture Models

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page will help you to solve problems related to Architecture Models.

Architecture Models is a feature of CAST AIP that essentially provides a means for you to manage your Architecture Models as part of CAST’s Architecture Checker feature.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation

For 8.3 : CMS - Architecture Models tab

CAST - Management Studio Help -> Architecture Models view
CAST - Management Studio Help ->CAST Architecture Checker

CMS Application - Current Version - Missing project path in the list of Analysis Units in packages

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page describes the issue when one single CAST-MS instance is used in multiple machines, we might observe that the project path in Analysis unit is missing.
This behavior is encountered under the below scenario:

Different users tries to access the same Application in the same or a different machine or
The same application instance is used in a different machine

The missing project path comes from the difference in the mode being used in Cast-MS.
We have 3 modes i.e. Regular,Advanced and Expert that can be set in Cast-MS and depending upon the selected mode, the level of information displayed to the customer will also differ.
The missing project path in any application can be seen if the mode is set to Regular.

CMS Application - Delivery - Accept Delivery - Fatal Error - The Program Delivery Manager Tool has not ended correctly- errorcode - 1000

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the error that is encountered when we try to accept the delivery.
When you accept the delivery, you might face the below mentioned error

This is a generic error when due to some issues with the delivery, it cannot be accepted.
If in case the Packaging of the source code from the DMT is incomplete i.e. one out of the many packages shows the content state as “Not packaged” then the delivery cannot be accepted.

CMS Application - Delivery - Add version - Fatal Error - Failed to create temporary file for jnidispatch library - FileNotFoundException

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When using CMS, you may get the error:

Failed to create temporary file for jnidispatch library: java.io.FileNotFoundException

as shown in the screenshot below. This has been seen during the accept delivery operation as well as the creating a new version operation in CMS.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CMS Application - Delivery - Manage Delivery - Fatal Error - Invalid delivery path entity xml

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Document Title

Solution to known problem - CMS Application - Error - Invalid delivery path entity.xml

Purpose (problem description)

Following error is raised while managing DMT in CMS

Invalid ////D:/Sources/XXX/Source_Delivery/7.3.0-DeliveryFolder/data/{f1191e12-785b-49b3-aa4b-6c117aa19698}/4acc97ea-eb7d-49ad-8bce-25d1ce57c15a.entity.xml
com.castsoftware.java.ExternalException:Invalid ////D:/Sources/XXX/Source_Delivery/7.3.0-DeliveryFolder/data/{f1191e12-785b-49b3-aa4b-6c117aa19698}/4acc97ea-eb7d-49ad-8bce-25d1ce57c15a.entity.xml com.castsoftware.java.IOMonitor.throwExternal(IOMonitor.java:222)
com.castsoftware.java.IOMonitor.throwFileInvalid(IOMonitor.java:93)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.FileLoader.load(FileLoader.java:366)
com.castsoftware.mda.transfer.FileLoader.run(FileLoader.java:288)
com.castsoftware.dmt.model.DeliveryMemoryDocument.fillDocumentFromPmxFiles(DeliveryMemoryDocument.java:368)
com.castsoftware.dmt.model.DeliveryMemoryDocument.load(DeliveryMemoryDocument.java:283)
com.castsoftware.deliverytool.DMTConfiguredApplication.onInitialize(DMTConfiguredApplication.java:88)
com.castsoftware.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Delivery the package in DMT
In CMS accept the delivery
Click on Mange delivery - Error encountered

Action Plan

CMS Application - Delivery - Set as current version - Deploy source code - Fatal Error - Error occurred while communicating with remote log client

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When setting as current version in CMS, the following errors are seen in the CAST-MS log, Refer to the page CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs to locate this log.This error causes the operation to stop:

An error has occurred while communicating with the remote log client. The error is as follows

Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service

com.castsoftware.util.logger.exceptions.FatalLogException

Here’s the full list of messages captured in the log:

CMS Application - Delivery - Set as current version - Deploy source code - Performance issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot performance issues you can face during the Set as current version.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Check if there is performance issue on the machine where you set as current version by using the Task manager tool, in the Performance tab. If yes, check what the process that are consuming too much ressources and kill them.
If the deploy folder is on the local machine :
1. Check if the the files to be deployed are not in only one folder.
2. If yes, and if the technology does not constraint to get all the file in only one folder, the source code must be splitted in multiple folders.
3. Then package the source again and set as current version again.
If the deploy folder is on server machine :
1. Make sure that the files transfer between your machine and the server is quick enough.
2. If it is not quick, it is expected to get performance issue.
3. If it is quick, check if the the files to be deployed are not in only one folder.
4. If yes, and if the technology does not constraint to get all the file in only one folder, the source code must be splitted in multiple folders.
5. Then package the source again and set as current version again.
Navigate to the below pages :
If you do not find the information you are looking for or solution for your problem, in this page, contact CAST Technical Support with Delivery Manager Tool - Relevant Input for Support to reproduce.

Notes/comments

CMS Application - Delivery - Set as current version - Process CastDeliveryFile - Field XXX not found

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page provides help with the error message ‘Field XXX not found’ during the Process CastDeliveryFile step of the Set as current version process.

The error message can be seen in the screenshot below:

The error that has been reported and resolved in CAST 8.3.7 is one where the field not found is ‘mx4JUsage’

Observed in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x, x < 7	✅

Observed in RDBMS

CMS Application - Dependencies - Missing dependencies - Default dependency is removed when setting as current version

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

A version shows a default dependency between two technologies (between the Cold Fusion Universal analyzer and PL/SQL in the example below)

But when setting as current version a new version, the default dependency is removed

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

Deliver one version of code.
Add new custom dependencies.
Deliver a new version of code and set as current version.
Notice that the default dependency no longer exists.

Impact of the Problem

CMS Application - Dependencies - Reference Pattern Dependencies - Create source set

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to the create source set step that occurs before the run reference pattern as you can see in the below screenshot:

Figure 1

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation:

- Official documentation: Cast AIP 8.3: CMS - Dependencies - using Reference Patterns

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Visit the page CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run reference pattern - Create source set

Notes/comments

CMS Application - Dependencies - Reference Pattern Dependencies - Missing links or wrong links - Wrong links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This guide gives the approach to troubleshoot wrong / incorrect links found by the Reference Pattern applied to dependencies

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step scenario

Run Analysis
Create reference pattern
Run Reference pattern
Open the Dynamic Link Manager
See links that you do not expect

Action Plan

Proceed with the below steps:

CMS Application - Dependencies - Reference Pattern Dependencies - Run reference finder - Fatal Error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you solve problems related to the run reference pattern.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation:
- Official documentation: Cast AIP 8.3 : CMS - Dependencies - using Reference Patterns

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

Run the Reference Finder by command line. This would help to solve the issue:
1. Open the CAST-MS log file.
2. Search for the last entry starting Task Run Reference Finder Analyzers.

CMS Application - Execute - Fatal Error - Failed to run ADG_COMPUTE_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

This page describes the solution for the following Error which occurs while uploading results to the measurement base:

Failed to run ADG_COMPUTE_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS (ERROR: more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression
Where: SQL statement “Update ADG_DELTA_SNAPSHOTS dd set PREV_SNAPSHOT_ID = (……)
PL/pgSQL function adg_compute_delta_snapshots(integer) line 43 at SQL statement)

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Panel

This error often comes when two or more snapshots coming from different centrals have the same functional date.
When the update query is executed the sub-query fetches more the one row with the same functional date of snapshot as a result the upload fails.
To avoid such situation, we need to check for the central bases with the snapshots on the central and update them to have a unique functional date.

CMS Application - Execute - Performance issues - Unresponsiveness - Dashboard does not open

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page provides the solution when you are not able to open the Dashboard in the browser.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Package and deliver the source code, set as current version.
Run the analysis and snapshot.
Click Open CAST Portal from CMS to open dashboard, dashboard does not open.

Action Plan

This issue occurs if we do not have default browser configured.

CMS Application - Information - All Applications are already referenced in Management Service for this Delivery folder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provide information about the message “All Applications are already referenced in Management Service for this Delivery folder” in CMS. when you click on “Manage an Application registered in AIC Portal”

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	❌

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	❌

Details

This message may come in below two scenario:

CMS Application - Modules - Incorrect module content - Number of objects higher than expected

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to troubleshoot issues related to the number of objects in the module higher than expected.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action Plan

If the number of objects displayed in the module content overview is higher than expected:
1. If you are using an explicit content, the User Defined Module will combine results of the filters you have configured in the filters tab and in the explicit content as explained in the page CMS - Information about Object Filters/Explicit Content in a User Defined Module
  1. If you need to combine the objevt filters and the explicit content, make sure that the configuration of the filters are fullfilling your expectation.
  2. If you need to use only the explicit content, make sure that in the Filters tab, there is no Object filters as below screenshot :
    
    Note also that for PeopleSoft and Siebel, this is a pre-requisite to delete the default Object Filter (See PeopleSoft 5.0 - Application management and Siebel 5.1 - Application management)
  3. In PGAdmin connects to your local database and run the select statement of the explicit content.
  4. If it returns more than the number of expected objects, you must review the query.
2. If you are using the Object filters, make sure that you have configured the user defined module as described in the page End User Guides > End-user application documentation > CMS - CAST Management Studio > CMS - CAST Management Studio - Infrastructure > CMS - CAST Management Studio - Editors
3. Check if the module content overview contains ghost objects by running the query defined in SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on Module - How to check if ghost objects are part of any module
4. If there are ghost objects, clean them by running the queries described in the page SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - Identify and clean up all the ghost objects and ghost projects in your knowledge base
If the below point does not help you resolve the issue, contact CAST Technical Support with Relevant input in order to help Support to reproduce the issue.

Notes / Comments

CMS Application - Modules - Module content overview - User Defined Modules - Fatal Error - Module content overview failed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

Doing a Module content overview from CAST-MS, we might get the following error:

User Defined Module - Module content overview failed
User Defined Module - Module content overview failed
Source Server / XXXX-XXXX / XXXX-XXXX FullContent: ‘XXXX-XXXX’ needs to be analyzed before taking the snapshot.
Continue with the option ‘Skip Analysis Job’ may lead to incomplete results

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Action Plan

This error can come up from two possible scenario if you are trying to view the module content and

CMS Application - Modules - Module content overview - User Defined Modules - Fatal Error - Module content overview failed - No Object Found

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem Description

When running Prepare analysis Data from AIP Console, we see the below error in the log -

Error: Child task on exception The following modules are empty : ‘xxx’ Return value: 1000 ERR: 2021-09-22 09:11:21: Prepare analysis data failed. Most of the time, this is due to empty module. ERR: 2021-09-22 09:11:21: For prepare analysis data, empty modules cannot be ignored. Either run a snapshot directly, either update your modules configuration.

CMS Application - Universal Importer - Links not created

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot problems where the links are not generated by the Universal Importer.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation: Universal Importer - Advanced configuration
CAST MS help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help > Infrastructure > Editors > Application Editor> Content Enrichment tab

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Action plan

Open the Universal Importer log file that is located in Universal Importer log path.
Check if there is any error message.
If there are error messages you must resolve them.
If there is no error, Open CAST MS.
In Content Enrichment, open the Universal Importer tool.
In the parameter tab, if the option selected is a Database :
1. Check that the queries to populate the parameter §UAX_IMPORT_INSTANCES return rows by running them in PGADMIN
  Figure 1
2. If the main queries do not return rows, it is expected to have no links generated by the Universal Importer
3. If the queries return rows, then the Universal Importer must creates links:
  1. If the links do not appear, check if there is an Updated CAST Knowledge Base tool that is executed after the Universal Importer that drop links.
  2. if there is no such tool, then it is a bug. The solution is to create a Updated CAST Knowledge Base tool with the same main query to create the links.
If the above points do not help you, contact CAST Technical Support with Relevant Input in order to reproduce the issue.

Notes/comments

CMS Assessment Model - Information - CAST Enforce Object Oriented Metrics - Chidamber and Kemerer Metrics Suite

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

Introduction

Object-Oriented programming design and development methods have been widely adopted in the software industry. This has created a strong need for assessing the quality of OO software systems. In deed, just as Object-Oriented programming requires a different approach compared to traditional imperative programming, software metrics must differ from traditional software metrics.
The most widely known and used set of Object Oriented metrics is the Chidamber and Kemerer Metrics Suite (also called CK Metrics Suite).
The Chidamber and Kemerer Object-Oriented metrics aim to measure design and code quality by investigating the coupling among classes, the cohesion within classes, complexity of classes and the complexity of the inheritance hierarchy.
The CK Metrics Suite is composed of 6 metrics, which are described in details in this document:

CMS Infrastructure Services - Information - Getting CAST Management Studio Online help

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

The page describes the process of getting CAST Management Studio Online help.

See also the on-line documentation help, For 8.3, please go here: CMS - CAST Management Studio

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅

Details

To get the online help of CAST Management Studio,
You have to

Connect to a management base via the Management Database Profiles
Go to Menu Help > Help
You can also see help in the on-line documentation. For example for 8.3, go to: CMS - CAST Management Studio

Notes/comments

CMS Infrastructure Services - Synchronization - Error - Dashboard Service - Configure from migrated databases failed

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

After migration when you try to synchronize the local or central you would get the following error -

Configure from migrated databases failed

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Upgrade Databases with CUT
Open Cast-MS with migrated MNGT
Click on the central base and synchronize.

Action Plan

The error is because the the table DSS_SITES on the central base is not correct. It contains a central schema name for a server type equivalent to a local site.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Analysis Unit Full Content - Number of objects selected 0 - Power Builder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When you are performing power builder analysis you are getting below warnings in the analysis log and 0 objects selected in the CAST-MS GUI as shown in the attached screen shots.

**Figure 1

**Figure 2

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅
7.2.x	✅
7.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅
CSS1	✅

Step by Step Scenario

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Dependency Dataset - Performance issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will help you to troubleshoot the performance problems you may face at the “Compute Dependency Dataset” step.

This is generally due to a big amount of objects involved in the computation of dependency dataset for external links.

*Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Action Plan

To troubleshoot this issue, you need the following Relevant input

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Fatal Error - deadlock detected

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page will help you with a solution, if your snapshot/consolidation is failing and the below mentioned errors on table, are found in the Cast-MSx.log.txt file.

ERROR: deadlock detected
Détail : Process 24832 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 24088 of database 12002; blocked by process 10660.
Process 10660 waits for AccessShareLock on relation 24099 of database 12002; blocked by process 24832.
Indice : See server log for query details.
Où : SQL statement "truncate table <Table name>"
PL/pgSQL function <function name>(integer) line 9 at SQL statement
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException:ERROR: deadlock detected

As we can see in the logs, a deadlock has been encountered on the database which has forced the snapshot to fail.
A deadlock is created when two applications are each locking the data needed by the other, resulting in a situation when neither application can continue execution.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Fatal Error - Error while executing procedure - dss propagate results to app

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

While running the snapshot, it crashes with the error “Error while executing procedure”, please find the screen shot below.

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x , x<2	✅
8.1.x, X< 1	✅
8.0.x	❌
7.3.x	❌

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	❌
CSS2	✅

Step by Step Scenario

Below is the step-by-step scenario leading to the problem:

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Fatal Error - Error while executing procedure - duplicate key value violates unique constraint uidx_efp_objects_statuses - duplicated datafunctions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page explains how to resolve the below error message that occurs during the Snapshot:

And In CAST MS log file (how to locate it is explained in the CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs page)

ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "uidx_efp_objects_statuses"
Detail: Key (object_id, module_id, snapshot_id)=(2331402, 52, 13) already exists.
Where: SQL statement "insert into EFP_OBJECTS_STATUSES(OBJECT_ID, MODULE_ID, SNAPSHOT_ID, PREVIOUS_SNAPSHOT_ID, OBJECT_STATUS, IS_ART, COST_COMPLEXITY, TECHNO_TYPE_ID)
select distinct wkd.OBJECT_ID,
wkd.MODULE_ID,
I_SNAPSHOT_ID,
I_SNAPSHOT_ID_PREVIOUS,
wkd.OBJECT_STATUS,
(case when wka.OBJECT_ID is null then -1 else 1 end), /* 1 : object is an artifact, else -1 */
(case when wka.OBJECT_ID is null then -1 else wka.COST_COMPLEXITY end),
0
from WK_EFP_OBJ_STATUS_LIGHT wkd
left join WK_EFP_ARTIFACTS wka
on wka.OBJECT_ID = wkd.OBJECT_ID"
PL/pgSQL function efp_build_obj_status(integer,integer,integer) line 112 at SQL statement
SQL statement "SELECT EFP_BUILD_OBJ_STATUS(I_SNAPSHOT_ID, I_SNAPSHOT_ID_START, I_APP_ID)"
PL/pgSQL function efp_build_art_cpt_statuses_sys(integer) line 54 at PERFORM
SQL statement "select EFP_BUILD_ART_CPT_STATUSES_SYS (13)"
PL/pgSQL function dss_execute_named_side_process(integer,character varying,integer) line 64 at EXECUTE statement
SQL statement "select DSS_EXECUTE_NAMED_SIDE_PROCESS(I_SNAPSHOT_ID, 'ALL', I_SIDE)"
PL/pgSQL function dss_execute_side_process(integer,integer) line 5 at SQL statement
PL/pgSQL function dss_cleanup_compute_metric(integer) line 6 at assignment
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException:ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "uidx_efp_objects_statuses"
Detail: Key (object_id, module_id, snapshot_id)=(2331402, 52, 13) already exists.

Observed in CAST AIP

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Compute Snapshot - Performance issue - Snapshot performance problem due to DIAG_ALL_ANA_XLSQL_TOTAL SP in KB

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

This page outlines the WA to deactivate some of the metrics that use this SP, DIAG_ALL_ANA_XLSQL_TOTAL in the local base.
When you are facing a performance problem while running snapshot, and looking at the DSS_History table for local you find that the snapshot is stuck at executing DIAG_ALL_ANA_XLSQL_TOTAL which is still being executed or has taken the maximum time to execute
For example:

1)The below shows the it took 4 days to execute the SP .
“End DIAG_ALL_ANA_XLSQL_TOTAL -3 61019 7660 2”;“2014-01-21 20:21:12.508”;2402
“Start DIAG_ALL_ANA_XLSQL_TOTAL -3 61019 7660 2”;“2014-01-17 14:49:28.344”;2401

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Dashboard Automation - Performance issue

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page will help you to troubleshoot the performance problems, you may face in Dashboard Automation step:

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Step by Step scenario

Take snapshot

Action Plan

Perform the below actions

Observe the URL defined in the Portal section of CMS - Dashboard Service editor
Access the URL separately in browser, if you observed that it is never loading then the URL is invalid. Change the URL to a valid one, then compute the snapshot again.
If the above steps do not solve your issue contact CAST Technical Support. with the following relevant input

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Execute Linker - Error - Failed to execute Linker

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Problem

This page deals with the issue encountered while running a huge analysis (more than 200 AU) where the analysis finally fails at “Execute Linker” step.
The analysis fails at this step and also consumes all of the available disk space as high as 400 GB.
This issue is caused due to some of the SQL Procedure in the Linker, that were not efficient leading to performance problem and crash.

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Generate Modules - Fatal Error - The following modules are empty

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Description

When trying to perform a snapshot on an application which contains a database analysis, the snapshot fails and the following message can be seen in the CAST-MS log (see the page CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs for information on how to find the CAST-MS log)

ERR: 2016-10-24 10:00:07: The following modules are empty

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Information - What is GUID - DotNet Technology

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose

This page provides the GUID formalism for DotNET Technology

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS	✅

Details

Object name**** : IsNumericOnly
Object full name : TKBAdjCommon.CommonValidations.IsNumericOnly
GUID : methCS_Net?Y:\Deploy\Deploy-SUPPORT\src\TKBAdjCommon\FDCCAdjCommon.csproj?proj_Net?TKBAdjCommon?nmsp_Net?CommonValidations?clsCS_Net?IsNumericOnly([mscorlib]System.String)

In this example, the GUID is built this way : ??????

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyser - Fatal Error - Universal Analyzer - PeopleSoft - function psoft metrics update does not exist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose (problem description)

This page is a troubleshooting guide for the below error:

Error while executing batch : Select <Knowledge_Base>.psoft_metrics_update()
Query failed because :
Error : function <Knowledge_Base>.psoft_metrics_update() does not exist.

This error occurs while running peoplesoft analysis during the step of running tools after analysis - “PeopleSoft Metrics Update”

Observed in CAST AIP

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	❌
8.2.x	❌
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Observed on RDBMS

CMS Snapshot Analysis - Run Analyzer - Crash - CPP with Extension

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

*Purpose

This page will guide you to troubleshoot the problems you may face while running the analysis.

For more information, refer to:

Official documentation
- C and Cpp
Online-help : CAST Management Studio - Help > How To > Regular audience > Run analysis only
TKB page for INFORMATION GUIDE > CMS Snapshot Analysis

Observed in CAST Extension

Release	Yes/No
CFamily-1.x-2.x	✅

*Observed on RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS	✅

Action Plan

CAST Documentation - V2 on Documentation - V2

1.21.0-beta1 - Content overview

Automatically upload data to a CAST Imaging instance

1.23 - Simplified Delivery mode overview

Introduction

2.10

Compatibility matrix

2.10

Content matrix

2.10

Content matrix

2.10.0-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Other Updates

Resolved Issues

2.11

Compatibility matrix

2.11.17-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Known Issues

Other Updates

2.11.16-funcrel

Other Updates

Resolved Issues

Bug Fixes

2.11.15-funcrel

Other Updates

Resolved Issues

2.11.14-funcrel

Notes

2.11

2.11.17-funcrel

Resolved Issues

2.11 - Workaround for issue with JAR installers

Issue description

2.11.x-funcrel - Instructions for 35820 customer bug fix

2.12 - CVE fix impacts

Issue description

Using JAR installers to install CAST Security Dashboard

2.12 - Workaround for change of metric ID (Application Components tile in Engineering Dashboard)

Issue description

2.13 - Workaround for change of metric ID (Technical Size tile in Management Dashboard)

Issue description

2.18

2.18.2-funcrel

Other Updates

Resolved Issues

Recommendations

2.18.1-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Other Updates

Resolved Issues

2.18.0-funcrel

Note

2.2.2 - Summary of UI changes

Introduction

2.3.1 - Summary of changes to the onboarding process

Introduction

2.4.0 - Summary of changes to the onboarding process

Introduction

Restrictions on applications in discovered state

2.6 - Enterprise mode - global installer - beta

2.7 - Log Service - beta

2.8 - Switch from legacy to fast scan onboarding mode

Introduction

2.8.0-funcrel only - Manual update for instances running on custom front-end port

2.9 - Automatic UTF-8 conversion feature

2.9.0-funcrel - Manual update for Microsoft Windows users synchronizing data from AIP Console

2.x - Enterprise mode - Installation of AIP Console front-end via Docker or Docker Desktop

Introduction

8.3.40 - Additional notes

Changes to rules flagged as critical

ACH - Access Rights

ACH - Action menu

ACH - Contacting CAST

ACH - Layers and Sets window

Admin Center - Bulk importing documents or tags via .CSV file

Introduction

Admin Center - License management panel

Introduction