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Impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.23 on Quality Model results post upgrade

VisualBasic

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Utilization of "DoEvents" inside a loop - 2586 - has been disabled

The VisualBasic rule 2586 Utilization of "DoEvents" inside a loop - 2586has been disabled out of the box in this release of CAST AIP. This means that:

• The rule is still listed in the Assessment Model so that results for previous snapshots can be viewed in the CAST dashboards
• The rule has been renamed and "DELETED" has been added as a prefix
• The rule will no longer be triggered in any new snapshots taken with 8.3.23 or above therefore changes in grades/overall numbers of violations may change
• The rule will no longer contribute to any parent Technical Criteria

Mainframe - Cobol

Never truncate data in MOVE statements - 7688

A bug has been fixed with regard to the Cobol rule Never truncate data in MOVE statements - 7688 and a change has been made to the way in which numeric signs are handled to avoid false positive violations of the rule:

• The first "-" is now considered as the sign.
• Commas are now detected as decimal points.

 As a result of these changes, some impact to existing results is to be expected when re-analyzing existing source code: false positive violations will be reduced, therefore changing grades but providing improved accuracy.

Other impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.23

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