Rule Specifications

• •Effective in version 10.0, you create inputs and update the input properties in the Manage Global Inputs dialog box.
Previously, you created and updated an input in the rule set that read the input.
• •Effective in version 10.0, a rule set uses text indicators to describe the sequence in which data moves through the rule statements.
Previously, a rule set used numbers to indicate the sequence.
• •Effective in version 10.0, the Design workspace in the Analyst tool uses the term "generate" to identify to the operation that creates a mapplet rule from a rule specification.
Previously, the Design workspace used the term "compile" to identify the operation.
• •Effective in version 10.0, you can validate and generate a rule specification that contains unused inputs.
Previously, a rule specification that contained unused inputs was not valid.
• •Effective in version 10.0, you can create and begin work on a rule specification in a single operation.
Previously, you created and opened a rule specification in separate operations.