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Rational Programming Patterns

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Text Entities - Format

Editing text entities is cumbersome and not friendly.It is time consuming to enter line by line, instead of just having an open window to enter the required text.Carriage control characters are brought over, however, they no longer have any purpose.
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

TAGS to overide control rule to promote all the design modified for a cobol

Lors du'une promotion permettre de bypasser la regle RPP :"Contrôle qu'aucun fichier design contributeurs aux fichiers générés susceptibles d'être distribués n'est manquant. Cette fonctionnalité requiert au minimum la version 6.0.2 de Rational Tea...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

API qui retourne le nombre de liens d'un objet

Cette API retournera le nombre de liens s'appuyant sur l'instance de modèle (rubrique, segment, etc...) passée en paramètre, que ce soit dans le sens des sous-références (ex: segment vers rubriques) ou des super-références (ex: rubrique vers segme...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

RPP - "Language definition" missing after migration

The "Language definition" is like ?control cards in front / in back of program? in PACBASE.At Euro Securities Partners, this notion is mandatory in PACBASE. But after migration to RPP programs lose this information.Consequently, the "language defi...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Reports -CE structure warnings

As a developer, I'd like to be warned if I delete a Structure in the -CE tab that will cause issues w/ the subscripting.
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Autocorrect -CD warnings

When changing a -CD organization to '2' - SQL, a warning is created telling the user to change the generated description and COBOL record level to '1'. Instead of creating a warning, could the editor update those fields? It seems like there is a s...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Smart Period Generation GDI

The generate action in the PDP Cobol Editor should consider COBOL statements such as IF, ELSE, and END-IF when generating code for the micropattern *!GDI.
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

[RPP] Intitulé infobulles boutons "Lancer l'émulateur d'écran"

Il suffirait juste d'évoquer la prise en compte des attributs de couleur pour lever l'ambiguité des intitulés d'infobulles.
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Delivered

RPP - Adding a search functionality in the "Generated Code Structure" Window

Evolution request from users contributing to improve developer productivity.In RPP, could you add a button in the "structure of generated code" option to add a display of lines according to a keyword?This keyword would be entered in a preferences ...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Adding lines by pressing ENTER in the description fields

This user-driven demand for change helped to improve the productivity of the developers.In RPP, whatever the type of component (batch, screen, segment, ...), the descriptor area (-Gx) is fixed. To insert a line, click on the button Add. Could you ...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered