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More micropatterns should have dot=false option

The new style of coding in RPP is COBOL like and it would be great if we could nest more micropatterns inside of IF/ELSE/WHENEVER statements. *!OSC is one we'd specifically like to see.
10 months ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Future consideration

Deleting a segment should be automatically followed by its deletion in the -LS of the Data Structure

Hi, Deleting a segment must be followed automatically by a remove of it from the -LS Lines of the associated Data Sctructure, just like the creation of the segment automatically adds it to the -LS Lines of the associated Data Structure. This is wh...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

WF Micropattern DES=3 LEV=2 in Cobol Screen with 3 index generated as in a batch Program

Hi, When a Segment xxnn has a value in the Table size field of Segment Definition tab (Data Structure doesn’t have a common part Segment), if I insert the WF Micropattern in Working storage of a Screen to declare a table using this segment with De...
over 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
about 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Generate FROM/INTO db2_view in a pacprogram from dataagregate -gg

The standards are to use the generation of SQL EXEC statements from the -gg of dataagregate. The purpose is also to specify the -gg "a minima", usually the WHERE clause. Work is underway to bring programs that do not use this generation back up to...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

EGLSDK to generate service configuration files in the same way as EGLCMD and Ant scripts

This was previously raise as Case number TS014714157, where it was suggested to raise it as an RFE, for inclusion in the next release. EGLSDK does not generate essential configuration files, needed to call EGL services.1. generate -generateFile Xx...
about 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

Rule to detect SELECT * in RPP designs

SELECT * is not a good way to get columns in DB2. RSA rules for RPP detects SELECT * only in specific code.
over 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration