Impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.7 on Quality Model results post upgrade

Mainframe Cobol

SCRAIP-32899 - False violation for the rule - Never truncate data in MOVE statements

A bug has been discovered which has meant that the rule "Never truncate data in MOVE statements - 7688" is returning false positive violations. This bug has been fixed and after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.7 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on the same source code, results may be impacted: reduced number of violations increasing accuracy.

SCRAIP-32900 - False Positive for Quality Rule "Prefer using indexes instead of subscripts - 8142"

A bug has been discovered which has meant that the rule "Prefer using indexes instead of subscripts - 8142" is returning false positive violations. This bug has been fixed and after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.7 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on the same source code, results may be impacted: reduced number of violations increasing accuracy.

SCRAIP-32916 - False positive for QR "Subscripts and iterators must be defined with BINARY usage - 8140"

A bug has been discovered which has meant that the rule "Subscripts and iterators must be defined with BINARY usage - 8140" is returning false positive violations. This bug has been fixed and after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.7 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on the same source code, results may be impacted: reduced number of violations increasing accuracy.

SAP/ABAP

SAP-116 - False positives for rule "Avoid empty Functions, Forms and Modules - 7512"

A bug has been discovered which has meant that the rule "Avoid empty Functions, Forms and Modules - 7512" is returning false positive violations. This bug has been fixed and after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.7 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on the same source code, results may be impacted: reduced number of violations increasing accuracy.

Other impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.7

SAP/ABAP

SAP-121 - ABAP 'unresolved Member & Method warnings': Unresolved objects are created

A bug has been discovered which is causing the creation of "unresolved method objects" for methods declared in classes. The analysis log also contains corresponding warning entries about these unresolved objects. This bug has now been fixed and after an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.7 and the generation of a post-upgrade consistency snapshot on the same source code, results may be impacted: increased number of method objects and removal of warnings in the analysis log due to unresolved objects.