CAST Management Studio CMS on Documentation - V2

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 - Information - Getting the Snapshot preparation assistant logfile via CAST-MS

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

Purpose

This page provides the information to locate Snapshot preparation assistant logfile via CAST-MS

Applicable in CAST Version

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

Details

The snapshot logfile is by default available at C:\DOCUME~~1<username>\LOCALS~~1\Temp\1/CAST\CAST<CAST Version>.
If a logfile path has been set up, the path is given under Window>Preferences in the Log Root directory field.

Notes / Comments

For the location of different log files refer CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

CAST Management Studio - Information - How does CAST get Macros from VCPROJ file

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

Purpose

This page provides an information about how does CAST get Macros from VCPROJ file

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

CAST get Macros from attribute “name = Release|Win32” which is located under element “Configuration” of visual C project file.

CAST Management Studio - Information - How does text replacement works in CAST-MS

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

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to describe how text replacement works in CAST-MS

For more information, refer to:

Online help (CAST MS help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help > Text replacement)
Official documentation:
- Text replacement

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

Text replacement enables you to define Regular Expressions (that match character strings in your selected files) that you want to replace with other text.

CAST Management Studio - Information - How to change the name or rename an existing application

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

Purpose

This information page describes how to change the name or rename an application.

Applicable in CAST Version

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

Here are the steps to change the name or rename an existing application

Make sure that you have good backups in case you have problems with any of these steps.

CAST Management Studio - Information - How to customize the quality rule control naming convention - prefix case and character set control

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

Purpose

Cast convention of the quality rule “Control naming convention - prefix, case and character set control” should respect naming conventions described in the following official page: Controls naming convention - prefix, case and character set control

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

If you want to use other conventions, you can parameterize this, by doing the following steps in CAST- MS:

CAST Management Studio - Information - How to find logs

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

Purpose

This page summarizes the information about different log files and also differentiates between different type of messages.

The information in this page include the following

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

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

Logs and their Locations

This section provides information about the generated log file paths of CAST components/features.

Default Paths for Shared Locations

Description	Name	Default Path (8.3.x)
Root path of shared configuration files and directories	CastAllUsersPath	%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\CAST/CAST<CASTVersion>
Root path of temporary files.	CastCurrentUserTempPath	%Temp%\CAST\CAST<CASTVersion>
CAST Log Root Path	CastLogRootPath	C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\Logs
Source code delivery folder root path	DeliveryFolder	C:\CASTMS\Delivery
Source code deployment folder root path	DeploymentFolder	C:\CASTMS\Deploy
LISA folder location	LISA	C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\CASTMS\LISA
LTSA folder location	LTSA	C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\CASTMS\LTSA
Log root location	LogRoot	C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\Logs
Extension root location	ExtensionFolder	C:\ProgramData\CAST\CAST\Extensions\

For information about, how to modify the default locations for logs, see Configure AIP Node storage folder locations - optional - v. 1.x

CAST Management Studio - Information - How to launch CAST-MS in SHOW SQL mode in order to get the SQL traces

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

Purpose

This page provides information about how to launch CAST-MS in SHOW SQL mode in order to get the SQL traces.

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	✅
CSS1	✅

Details

SHOW SQL mode can be activated for CAST-MS by adding -LogSQL at the end of the command line of the CMS.

CAST Management Studio - Information - Type of issues

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

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to describe the type of issues you can face using all CAST AIP tools.

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
CSS4	✅
CSS3	✅
CSS2	✅

Type of issues

These are the most common issues that we use to see at CAST Technical Support :

CRASH

CRASH

A crash is an unexpected issue that stops suddently the process you are running.

CAST Management Studio - Information - User Input Security - How to blackbox a method

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

Purpose

When analyzing the source code of an application, which has a defined analysis scope, some code is analyzed, some is not and is treated as an external code.

Any external code is unknown and cannot be accessed by the analyzer, and as such is not taken into account by the User Input Security feature. Therefore, security problems in this external source code would normally not be detected at all.