Creating user-written custom rules for COBOL code review

User-written custom rules are implemented by Java™ classes that call the Custom Rules API for COBOL Code Review and the COBOL Application Model API (CAM) to analyze source code files.

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To create a user-written custom rule, do the following steps:
  1. Generate a plug-in project for COBOL code review.
  2. Create Java code that calls the Custom Rules API for COBOL Code Review and the COBOL Application Model API (CAM) to analyze source code files.
  3. Install the user-written custom rule plug-in into the development workbench.

Each of these steps is described in the following topics.

After you create a COBOL code review project, you can add more user-written custom rules to it. The procedure for adding rules to a project is described in Adding a rule to an existing rule plug-in project.

Note: User-written custom rules are different from custom categories and custom rules. User-written custom rules are implemented by Java classes and are supported only for COBOL code review. Custom categories and rules are created and configured with wizards and windows. For more information about custom categories and rules, see Custom categories and rules.

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