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Rational Programming Patterns

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Support ELSE for IF on Function/Subfunction level

Within RPP it is possible to Create Function/Subfunction with Conditions IT, DW, DU. It is not possible to get an ELSE for the IT construct in current release (9.1.2). Request is to include functionality that will create IT ELSE construct as in Pa...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

View Problems (vue Erreurs) option Advanced Show All pour afficher tous les avertissements/erreurs du Référentiel

La vue Problems avec l’option « Show all » affiche les avertissements/erreurs détectées dans le Référentiel sans que l’administrateur ait besoin d’ouvrir un Cobol PDP quelconque, il s’agit des types :“Desynchronized_Generated_File_Marker”, “PDP Er...
about 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Get rid of the priority macrostructures

To declare relative placements of blocks in screen programs, the user has to create special macrostructures that have priority over other macrostructures. The users consider ?priority macrostructures? as something hard to maintain, hard to underst...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Improve positionning in -DR of a DBB

With -XB of a segment, when typing PF10 of the line, we arrivedirectly on the good line of the -DR of BlocBase.In RPP, this function does not exist so, in some cases (large Database block description), it is very difficult to get positioned on the...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

RPP - Assigned Text to instances of all entity types

Hi, We would like to be able to read assigned text to entity in RPP the same way we did in Pacbase. It's much more convenient than reference search in RPP. Almost all of our macro-structures, programs, screens, etc… have assigned text before migra...
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Delivered

RPP - List of Data Elements sorted by relational name

We would like to have the equivalent of the choice « LRE » in PACBASE for Data Elements' on-Line Access.
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Delivered

Add micro-pattern API to enable copy-paste of user code or mp generated code

Actually, from RPP 9.6.x, copy-paste is disallowed by RPP in COBOL PDP editor for regions of code generated from a micro-pattern. In particular in case of COBOL Facet of RPP, it is necessay to enale copy-paste of code in the generated program * ei...
about 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

RPP should only consume license tokens when the product is used

RPP is consuming license tokens while it is not being used when RDz is started. The RPP implementation is based on workbench startup. While RDz v9 has been componentized to manage floating licenses based on feature usage (e.g., LPEX open) as oppos...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

Need programs -CD, screens -CS, -CE, report -D, -CE to be fully expanded at editor opening

With current version (RPP 9.5), after the opening of a program entity in the design editor, the -CD description is folded. Users reported they would like to have the -CD description directly fully expanded by default. Same for -CE and -CS in scree...
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

RPP design explorer behavior using pacbase line commands

In pacbase, the user could type, for example "p abc123" to quickly get to the program abc123, or "s ab00" for segment ab00, or "e abcdef" for element abcdef, etc. Having this same behavior in RPP's design explorer would make accessing a design muc...
about 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

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