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Rational Programming Patterns

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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...
9 months ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

[RPP] DDL with clause "NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT constant"

In RPP, select option 'P' in CMS456 in dataaggragate -ce generate a clause NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in the .ddl. NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in DB2 allows inserting rows in a table without specify the value. A column with type integer or decimal would be ...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 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...
almost 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 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...
about 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

[RPP] Equivalent choix LFE : Liste des rubriques non définies au dictionnaire

Il n'existe pas dans RPP de moyen de retrouver les rubriques utilisées dans les programmes, sans fiche de définition dans le dictionnaire (équivalent choix LFE dans PACBASE)
over 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Use of line number as parameter in macro is not working

Email from Remili, the developer: Hi Srinivas, could you please open a ticket for this specific macro that our team uses. Right now we have a workaround but it will be good if they can fix it for the new RPP version.This is for our macro ADVATR, w...
over 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Exporter les instances RPP dans un fichier .xmi grâce à la commande rpp.bat

Bonjour, Sous Eclipse, nous avons aujourd'hui la possibilité d'exporter les instances d'un repository RPP dans un fichier xmi en cliquant droit sur ce dernier > Export. Il faudrait permettre d'obtenir le même résultat via une commande du rpp.ba...
almost 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Publish xml segments

As a user of the Programming Patterns publish feature, I would like more control over how the xml file is created. When selecting multiple segments, and including their 'referenced instances', the referenced instances are not in the correct order ...
almost 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Vue "Structure du code généré" : cocher par défaut "supprimer également ses dépendant"

Quand on supprimer une sous-fonction via la vue "Structure du code généré", il faudrait que la case "Supprimer également ses dépendants" soit cochée par défaut (éventuellement via paramétrage à la main des admins)
almost 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

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