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Rational Programming Patterns

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Perform Hierarchy for Programming Patterns CICS

The 'show in perform hierarchy' feature of RDz shows too many Performers for RPP Screens. It works great for performs in batch, but is confused w/ screens. See the attached image. There are many Performers of F80-SCHL-R, but most are not directly ...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

RPP - Identification des entités design non utilisées

Il n'est pas possible à ce jour d'identifier les entités design qui ne sont pas utilisées, ce qui serait fort utile dans le cadre de travaux de ré-urbanisation d'applications
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

G?n?ration de niveau 88

Bonjour, Pour am?liorer la lisibilit? des programmes Cobol, serait-il possible de g?n?rer des niveaux 88 (condition) ? partir des Rubriques d?clar?es au Dictionnaire ? Pour cela, il faudrait pouvoir associer au niveau -D des Rurbriques, pour chaqu...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

Micros-patterns "iterate" et "leave" pour remplacer op?rateurs GB et GT

Bonjour, Avec la disparition du Langage Structur?, la notion de niveau de fonction/sous-fonction est moins apparente pour le d?veloppeur qui travaille surtout avec le code Cobol. Je propose la cr?ation de deux nouveaux micros-patterns pour g?rer l...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Usage search with relational name

As a developer; I would like the usage search to return all cross references for an element, including references to the Relational Name (defined as Type 'R' in the -D Lines of the element) in programs.
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

We have a requirement for traceability, to see who changed code as well as what and when.

As we understand, we currently only see whom last saved something in a file in a snapshot of an application.We do not see, in an individual snapshot what was changed in a file or when this change was made.
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Gestion des gros programmes

Améliorer le temps de génération locale en COBOL des très gros programmes (voir le document joint).
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Génération utilisateur – user build depuis RPP

Actuellement il n'est possible de faire un user build depuis la vue « Projet z/OS ».Ceci se fait via un clic droit sur le fichier *.cbl. Nous aimerions pouvoir lancer un user build :1) Depuis la vue explorateur de design de RPP, avec demande de co...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Add Tables & Columns references from SQLs in Outline

Adding references of database tables and columns used in embedded SQL statements in RPGLE to Outline window as Tables and Columns or adding under Files and Fields will help Developers greatly to see which tables or columns used in programs.
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Pouvoir indiquer qu'une entité n'est pas à regénérer même si RPP indique le contraire

Dans la vue Gestionnaire de génération (generation manager) pouvoir indiquer les fichiers à ne pas regénérer inutilement (voir détail de l'explication dans les documents ci-joint)
about 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration