Demonstration The capability of the plugin is demonstrated on Nemo
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Price 7,500 € per instance of Sonar and per year, including upgrade, maintenance and support.

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Version 1.2 - Released July 15, 2010
Improve Enterprise Cobol and Microfocus grammars, compatibility with Sonar 2.2…		 Sonar 2.2+ Release notes Download
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Features

SonarSource has developed its own state of the art Cobol parser and packaged it as a Sonar Plugin. It allows to perform objective and automated Cobol code reviews against pre-defined or homemade coding best practices. This plugin benefits from the power of the Open Source Sonar platform by reusing all available core services : Violations drilldown, Hotspots, Code viewer with syntax highlighting, TimeMachine, Clouds, Coding rule profile management, etc. This plugin can also be used along with the SonarSource Views plugin to aggregate Cobol projects and easily manage a portfolio with millions lines of code.

Key features of the plugin are :

  • Conformance to the following standards : COBOL-74, COBOL-85 and partially COBOL-2002 (object-oriented COBOL should be fully implemented for this end of the year).
  • Solidly tested against the following dialects : IBM OS/VS COBOL, IBM OS/VS COBOL II, IBM Enterprise COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL and AcuCobol-GT).
  • Analysis of SQL and CICS statements embedded inside Cobol
  • 50 coding rules available, including CICS ans SQL rules
  • Ability to extend the out-the-box rule engine by defining and activating custom rules
  • Deactivation of false positive violations using the tag *NOSONAR in Cobol source code
  • Management of the COPY and REPLACE preprocessing statements with the optional REPLACING clause
  • Ability to track parsing issues by using rules violations
  • Ability to automatically flag code generated by Cobol code generators like CA-Telon
  • Easy usage : download the jar, start Sonar and launch mvn sonar:sonar
  • Excellent performances, analyzes millions of lines of code in minutes