About this task
To create a user-written rule, follow these steps:
- Use a wizard to generate a plug-in project for COBOL or PL/I code analysis. Specify the types
of code statements that you want to analyze.
- Develop Java code
that calls the code-analysis APIs. You can inspect the types of code
statements that you are interested in and either accept or reject
each instance.
- Install your user-written rule plug-in into the development workbench.
Each of these steps is described in more detail in the following
topics.
After you create and install a user-written
rule project, you can later add more rules to it. See the links at
the end of the topic.
Note: User-written rules are
different from custom categories and custom rules. You create custom
categories and rules with wizards in which you can select processing
options for certain types of rules. See the link at the end of the
topic.