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Enable switching from PACBASE and COBOL facets in the same workspace

Problems may appear when switching from one facet to another.
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Is a defect

Support des colonnes DB2 XML dans la génération des DDL et des accès SQL

Bonjour, Merci d'ajouter le support des colonnes XML pour le SGBD DB2 (z/OS).Ceci concerne :- la g?n?ration de DDL ? partir de Bloc Base de Donn?es- la g?n?ration de hosts-variables compatibles avec les colonnes XML des structures en organisation ...
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 6 Not under consideration

API to set markers on user entity fields and show them on entity editor

Some user entities are quite complex and require advanced consistency rules. Coherence rules exist at the meta entity level, but are not always enough.We are able to define our own control through a plugin. it is possible to set a marker on the en...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Editeur COBOL PDP - restreindre aux colonnes 7 à 72

Dans l'éditeur COBOL PDP, il serait intéressant de restreindre la saisie aux colonnes 7 à 72.- col. 1 à 6 : depuis la fin des cartes perforées, leur utilité est très limitée- col. 73 et + : utilisées par le générateur essentiellement
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Auto populate change set comments

Our shop requires comments on a change prior to delivery. If the comment could be auto populated with the impacted elements (program, design, segment, ...), it would make change set manipulation & promotions simpler.
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

RPP 9.5.1 Date computing, date comparison micropatterns and lowercase

Lower case letter operands are not recognized for dates micropatterns (*!DAD, *!DCD, *!DCF etc….)
about 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

Rules of control of promotion

If the rule "Contrôle qu'aucun fichier design contributeurs aux fichiers générés susceptibles d'être distribués n'est manquant" is active, it is impossible to promote a program if you have modify a design after the generation. You Must promote the...
about 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Rational Programming Patterns : REFER generation option in Dialog and Screen entities

REFER / REF generation option entered in dialog complement tab or in - GO lines of a screen's -G lines tab do not generate "the LIST OF REFERENCED ENTITIES" in the Cobol program's Working Storage Section. If this "LIST OF REFERENCED ENTITIES' is a...
about 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Rarional Programming Patterns: having subscripts automatically located in the subscript data group.

When using RPP (V9.5.1) I noticed that the subscripts generated thru the snippets are not generated in binary format (COMP, COMP-4/5 or BINARY usage) - preferred format for this kind of data -. RPP seems to expect the user to add a group data item...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration