Select Highlighting Options dialog box

Use the Select Highlighting Options dialog box to specify how to highlight metrics information in the Structure Chart view. You can access this dialog box from the Chart menu by selecting the Highlighting command, or by right-clicking any white space in the Structure Chart and selecting Highlighting.

To specify how to highlight metrics information in the Structure Chart view

  1. Use the Select Option drop-down list to select specific metrics for highlighting. The available options are:
    • CICS Interface Code: This metric indicates which procedures contain EXECUTE CICS SEND, RECEIVE, and CONVERSE verbs.
    • CICS Web Interface: Identifies areas with statement that contain CICS statements that provide data to and from an HTML interface.
    • Code Blocks: This metric indicates the number of code blocks each perform group contains. A code block is a sequential group of statements with one entry point and no more than one decision point.
    • GO TOs: This metric indicates which procedures contain GO TO statements.
    • Input/Output: This metric indicates which perform groups contain input/output verbs.
    • McCabe Complexity: This metric reflects the McCabe Complexity score for each procedure.
    • MQ Series: Identifies areas that contain MQ Series calls.
    • Non-returning (COBOL programs only): This metric indicates which procedures contain an unconditional GOBACK, STOP, or EXIT PROGRAM.
    • Perform Range Violation (COBOL programs only): This metric indicates every perform group that contains a statement that branches outside its Perform Range, which is a conditional called a Perform Range violation.
    • Program Calls: This metric indicates which procedures have calls to other load modules.
    • Recursive: This metric shows where recursion occurs. Recursion is any incidence of a PERFORM statement that can reach itself before the Perform is finished.
    • Relative Risk: The risk factor can help you determine procedures that have the highest risk of failure if they are not thoroughly tested.
    • Tagged Statements: Identifies areas that contain tagged statements.

Note

Alternatively, you can click Apply Colors To All Options to apply the color selections you make to all of the above options at one time.

  1. Use the Thresholds group box to display the thresholds at which a procedure's color changes, based on the metric score. (This group box is available for numeric metrics only.)
  2. Use the Colors group box to select a color for each threshold range. Note: If a procedure box is highlighted in red, it contains a data name that is in the Find Indirect dialog box.


 

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