Impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.26 on Quality Model results post upgrade

Avoid SQL injection vulnerabilities - 7742

Due to new support introduced in 8.3.26 for the framework Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary by the User Input Security feature, results for the rule Avoid SQL injection vulnerabilities may change after an upgrade to 8.3.26 and the generation of a consistency snapshot on unchanged source code - a decrease in the number of false violations may be visible.

Other impacts of changes made in CAST AIP 8.3.26

Mainframe

Updates to Base_Mainframe.TCCSetup for transaction configuration

The following changes have been implemented which may impact results when re-analyzing an existing application with AIP 8.3.26:

• IMS Transactions are now automatically considered part of "Standard Entry Point - IMS - Unknown (GS)"
• CICS Transactions called from Java methods and Java constructors are no longer considered part of "Standard End Point - CICS - Transactions called by Java (GS)"
• An error has been fixed where the opposite was true in previous releases:
  • IMS FilePrototype objects are now considered part of "Standard End Point - IMS - GSAM - Not delivered"
  • IMS AnalyzedFileobjects are now considered part of "Standard Data Entity - GSAM"

Name of unresolved MQ publisher/subscriber objects has been changed to avoid false links

In previous releases of AIP, unresolved queue names lead to the creation of Publisher/Subscriber objects with the  same name Unresovled:MQP2P. As a result, many false links are created skewing results. In CAST AIP 8.3.26, the name of the unresolved object has been changed from Unresolved:MQP2P to UnknownMQ:<COBOL_Parent_PROGRAM> - this identifies the Cobol program name publishing/subscribing to the message and will reduce the number of false links. This may impact results when re-analyzing an existing application with AIP 8.3.26.

Update to ensure JCL SQL Query objects are created correctly

A change has been implemented to ensure that JCL SQL Query objects are created correctly when the DSNTIAUL program is used. This may impact results when re-analyzing an existing application with AIP 8.3.26.

CAST Transaction Configuration Center

Improved accuracy of AETP values

In order to provide greater accuracy, the calculation of AETP values has been modified in this release. Previously, all added/deleted/updated AETP detail values between 0 and 1 were calculated with no decimal places, effectively giving the impression in some circumstances (when all added/deleted/updated values were below 1) that total AETP = 0. This behaviour has been changed and AETP detail values are now considered to two decimal places for added/deleted/updated. In addition AETP total values will now be rounded up as discussed in Changes or new features - 8.3.26. As a result of this change, some impact to results may be evident after an upgrade to 8.3.26 and the generation of a consistency snapshot on unchanged source code: AETP values may change and as a result overall AEP values may also change.