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- Impacts of changes made to CAST AIP 8.3.16 on Quality Model results post upgrade
Other impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.16
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Impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.16 on Quality Model results post upgrade
Mainframe
MAINFRAME-283 - Prefer using indexes instead of subscripts - 8142
SAP / ABAP
SAP-172 - "CX_ROOT" should not be used in TRY .. CATCH.. ENDTRY block (8412)
The parent technical criterion for this rule was incorrectly set to 61020: Programming Practices - Modularity and OO Encapsulation Conformity, and this has now been changed to 61014: Programming Practices - Error and Exception Handling. Therefore, after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.16 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on unchanged source code, results may change. Grades for the new and previous parent technical criteria and Health Factors will change.
Multiple changes
Disabled rules
The following rules have been disabled in CAST AIP 8.3.16, therefore after upgrade to this release and the generation of a post upgrade consistency snapshot on unchanged source code, results may differ:
- Avoid using literals in assignments (hardcoded values) (7522)
- Avoid "SELECT *" queries (7344)
Bug correction
Various bugs have been fixed in this release, therefore after upgrade to this release and the generation of a post upgrade consistency snapshot on unchanged source code, results may differ:
| Avoid using AT Events in combination of LOOP AT .... WHERE constructs (7536) | This rule has been found to not function correctly in previous releases of CAST AIP. This bug has now been fixed, therefore, after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.16 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on unchanged source code, results may change. You may have violations for this rule where previously there were none. |
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| Avoid empty catch blocks (7788) | A bug has been discovered which was causing violations to be not reported for the following syntax: CATCH SYSTEM-EXCEPTIONS. ENDCATCH. This bug has now been fixed, therefore, after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.16 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on unchanged source code, results may change. You may have violations for this syntax where previously there were none. |
| Avoid using hardcoded paths (7526) | A bug has been discovered which was causing violations to be not reported if they occurred in the VALUE part of DATA statements, for example: DATA d TYPE char22 VALUE 'c:/mypath'. This bug has now been fixed, therefore, after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.16 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on unchanged source code, results may change. You may have violations for this syntax where previously there were none. |
Other impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.16
Oracle PL/SQL (embedded analyzer)
A change has been made to the way in which the analyzer handles the XMLROOT syntax (use of an "identifier" instead of "VERSION"). As a result of this change, after an upgrade to CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.16 and the generation of a post upgrade consistency snapshot on unchanged source code, you should expect many Oracle PL/SQL objects to be marked as modified.