CAST Rules

88 Rules

ID	Name	Severity
5050	Avoid using HANDLE CONDITION	medium
5052	Avoid using IGNORE CONDITION	medium
5054	Avoid using HANDLE ABEND	medium
5056	Using SEARCH ALL only with sorted data	medium
5058	Avoid using SORT	medium
5060	Avoid using MERGE	medium
5062	Avoid using ALTER	high
5064	Program naming convention - prefix control	medium
5066	Avoid using PERFORM ... THROUGH \| THRU	medium
5068	Avoid STOP RUN (use GOBACK instead)	medium
5070	Section naming convention - prefix control	medium
5072	Avoid DISPLAY ... UPON CONSOLE	medium
5074	Paragraph naming convention - prefix control	medium
5080	Avoid Procedure Paragraphs that contains no statements	medium
5082	Avoid Procedure Sections that contain no Paragraph	medium
5086	Avoid using Sections in the PROCEDURE DIVISION (use Paragraphs only)	medium
5090	Avoid using NEXT SENTENCE	medium
5092	Include a WHEN OTHER clause when using EVALUATE	medium
5094	Avoid using MOVE CORRESPONDING ... TO ...	high
5100	Avoid large Sections - too many Lines of Code	medium
5104	Avoid large Programs - too many Sections	medium
5108	Avoid Sections with a very low comment/code ratio (COBOL)	medium
5110	Avoid Programs with a very low comment/code ratio (COBOL)	medium
5112	Avoid undocumented Sections (COBOL)	medium
5114	Avoid undocumented Programs (COBOL)	medium
5116	Avoid undocumented Paragraphs	medium
5138	Avoid Programs with lines exceeding the maximum length of characters	medium
5144	Avoid using GOTO statement (COBOL)	medium
7218	Avoid OPEN/CLOSE inside loops	critical
7234	EVALUATE statements must be closed by END-EVALUATE	medium
7236	Avoid recursive calls with PERFORM statements	high
7274	Avoid GOTO jumps out of PERFORM range	critical
7288	Avoid cyclic calls with PERFORM statements	critical
7290	Avoid unreferenced Sections and Paragraphs	medium
7300	Avoid large Paragraphs - too many Lines of Code	medium
7302	Avoid using Pointers	medium
7304	IF statements must be closed by END-IF	medium
7366	File descriptor block must be defined with 0 record	critical
7368	When using binary data items (COMP), then use the SYNCHRONIZED clause	medium
7370	Avoid using inline PERFORM with too many lines of code	medium
7548	Never use incompatible statements with the CICS environment	high
7550	Avoid using nested programs	medium
7552	Avoid incoherent file accesses in Cobol programs and DISP clauses in JCL	medium
7554	Never access an IMS segment with an access mode not authorized in the PCB	medium
7558	Avoid accessing data by using the position and length	medium
7644	Avoid executing multiple OPEN statements	medium
7688	Never truncate data in MOVE statements	critical
7690	Avoid unchecked return code (SQLCODE) after EXEC SQL query	high
7692	Each opened file must be closed	medium
7694	Avoid calling the same paragraph with PERFORM and GO TO statements	medium
7696	A Copybook should not include other Copybooks	medium
7698	Files should be declared with a FILE-STATUS	medium
7718	Sections and paragraphs should be located after the first statement calling them	medium
7754	Avoid using COMPUTE statement for elementary arithmetic operation	medium
7756	Avoid using READ statement without AT END clause or INVALID KEY clause	medium
7766	Avoid Artifacts with High Cyclomatic Complexity	medium
7768	Avoid Artifacts with High Depth of Code	medium
7772	Avoid Artifacts with High Essential Complexity	medium
7774	Avoid Artifacts with High Integration Complexity	medium
7776	Avoid Artifacts with High Fan-In	medium
7778	Avoid Artifacts with High Fan-Out	medium
7806	Avoid Artifacts with Group By	medium
7808	Avoid Artifacts with SQL statement including subqueries	medium
7810	Avoid Artifacts with a Complex SELECT Clause	medium
7822	Avoid Artifacts with queries on more than 4 Tables	medium
7828	Avoid Artifacts with High RAW SQL Complexity	medium
7842	Avoid large Artifacts - too many Lines of Code	medium
7902	Avoid SQL queries that no index can support	medium
7904	Avoid SQL queries on XXL tables that no index can support	high
8030	Check alphanumeric data before moving it into numeric data	medium
8034	Working-Storage variables must be initialized before being read	medium
8140	Subscripts and iterators must be defined with BINARY usage	medium
8142	Prefer using indexes instead of subscripts	medium
8144	Avoid using INITIALIZE statement on data structures	medium
8146	Avoid calling programs statically	medium
8160	Check PCB status code after DLI queries	medium
8162	CICS return code should be checked	medium
8236	Avoid using hard-coded values	medium
8468	Program semantic should respect the logic of flow execution	critical
8470	Avoid using STRING without overflow check	high
8476	Avoid calling unsafe C library functions from COBOL	critical
8478	Avoid Buffer Overruns when using ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE & COMPUTE statement inside a loop	critical
8480	Avoid using PREPARE STMT statement (Dynamic SQL) with STRING containing HOST variables	critical
8556	'XML GENERATE' should be used with 'WITH ENCODING'	medium
8558	Avoid using XML PARSE without 'VALIDATING'	high
1101036	Use ANSI standard operators in SQL WHERE clauses	medium
1101108	Avoid Cobol SQL Cursors without FOR READ ONLY or FOR FETCH ONLY or FOR UPDATE or BROWSE ACCESS clauses	medium
1101112	Avoid LOCK TABLE statements in SQL code for COBOL Programs	medium

88 Rules

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