Code analysis helps you understand and optimize your COBOL applications.
Visual COBOL offers the following types of analysis:
Application Analysis Server
Visual COBOL enables you to connect to a
Rocket® Enterprise Analyzer or
Rocket® COBOL Analyzer repository and use their application analysis features to analyze and understand the effect of your changes on your application.
Restriction: Application Analysis Server is only available for
native COBOL projects and for .NET COBOL procedural multi-output projects on Windows platforms only.
Analysis Assistant
Analysis Assistant is a natural language chat window integrated into the IDE that answers queries about the behavior of your
COBOL applications with the assistance of graphs, reports and code suggestions.
Restriction: This functionality is available only if you have the following licensed products installed:
- Visual COBOL, version 10.0 or later, and
- Enterprise Analyzer or COBOL Analyzer, version 10.0 or later.
Analysis Services
Visual COBOL enables you to perform a data flow analysis and view the program flow graphs for your code. Data Flow Analysis traces the
incoming and outgoing flow paths of data items. This allows you to see how changing a data item affects the program. Program
Flow Graph is a call hierarchy graph that helps you understand the structure of a program. It shows the call flow for paragraphs
in a COBOL program.
Restriction: Analysis Services are only available for
native COBOL projects and for .NET COBOL procedural multi-output projects on Windows platforms only.
Rules-based analysis
Visual COBOL provides a variety of analysis queries (rules) that you can execute on individual COBOL programs or on an entire project
to gain statistics to help improve the productivity.
Restriction: Rule-based analysis is only available for
native COBOL projects and for .NET COBOL procedural multi-output projects on Windows platforms only.
COBOL Source Information
COBOL Source Information (CSI) provides a quick and easy way of providing you with information about your program when you
are working on it. You enter a query in
the CSI query control and CSI returns the results of the query in the
Micro Focus Code Analysis window.
Restriction: COBOL Source Information (CSI) is only supported for native COBOL.