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Rational Programming Patterns

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duplicate a program in any existing projects

Useful to duplicate a program in an easy way, without having to take multiple steps to achieve the same When duplicating a program, in the Design Entity Duplication wizzard, the Design Project list only shows the current project and those undernea...
8 months ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

[RPP] Proxy java generator

For GUI Applications, we use Pacbench eBusiness Générateur Java v2.5v13. Pacbench eBusiness Générateur Java v2.5v13 works fine with WINDOWS Server 2012, but we have planned an upgrade to WINDOWS Server 2019. As this tool is essential for developer...
11 months ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

[RPP] Rule "éviter les expressions NEXT SENTENCE"

Related to archived case TS002533615 in RPP 962 : Il ne faut pas appliquer cette règle sur ce qui est généré par une ligne N de type IT DW DU... car c'est le générateur qui produit la clause NEXT SENTENCE. Bernard ETIENNE wrote " I confirm this de...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 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

Implement search dialog for -DR editor as it is already for -CP

If it could be possible to implement, for some pertinent editors (I think -DR of course but also -CE for Segment and Screen), Please implement a functionality of a search in the same way with the search implemented on -CP tab. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

RPP - eclipse p2 install

Client side RPP cannot be installed thru "eclipse p2" : only IM (and zip for IM) is available while IDZ + IBM Engineering Workflow Management (formerly Rational Team Concert) can be installed with all methods
about 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Problem when comparing and merging 2 PDP Cobol files

General pupose :- For Groupama, audits of changes are relevant only at the Assembly streams level; there is no desire to audit the detail of development steps (all the intermediate versions).- As entry into Assembly streams, new Change Sets are cr...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 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

Allow renaming of segments in Screens w/ *!WF

We would like to be able to rename segments when calling them into Screens using *!WF. This was a limitation in Pacbase, and we'd like to see it as an enhancements in Programming Patterns.
over 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Delivered

RSA - règle "Utiliser des commentaires pour chaque paragraphe"

Les étiquettes Fffss-FN, Fffss-900 et assimilées ne doivent pas entrer dans le champ d'application de cette règle, car RPP ne génère pas de commentaire pour ces paragraphes.
over 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered