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Rational Programming Patterns

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Vue "Structure du code généré" : supprimer plusieurs sous-fonctions en une seule action

Supprimer plusieurs sous-fonctions en une seule action permet de gagner du temps de développement, en particulier en cas de positionnement relatif (anciens *A * P * R) car la suppression entraîne la regénération du programme : dix sous-fonctions à...
almost 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Add editor features for historical files

When opening historical versions of cbl files (team > show history > open), the editor lacks features like Find, occurrences, and generated code structure view. Trying to use outline throws a java exception as well.
almost 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than 9 break levels in Programming Patterns

We recently had reason to develop a program with more than 9 levels of control breaking. The source of the input was a DB2 cursor. We tried to use a group field, but that does not generate correctly when using an Organization of '2'. The group fie...
almost 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Not under consideration

Améliorer l'ergonomie des entités "Bloc Base de Données" dans RPP

ESP utilise les entités "Bloc Bases de Données" pour générer des DDL pour DB2 sur z/OS.L'utilisation de ces designs n'est pas ergonomique, notamment le -DR.En particulier nous allons passer à DB2 V12 prochainement, ce qui va impliquer de changer b...
almost 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Improved RPP Compares

We do walkthroughs of our code changes by stepping through the compare report. When doing this for a Screen, there are tons of differences in generated code. We'd like an option to ignore generated differences. Or an improvement to the compare alg...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

RSA résultats perdus à la fermeture d'Eclipse

Les résultats de RSA dans la vue Software Analyzer sont perdus à la fermeture d'Eclipse
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Mettre l'appel du micro-pattern SQL avec le code généré en F80

Suite au PMR 22950 999 706, il serait souhaitable que le micro-pattern *!SQL soit mis juste avant le code généré.
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 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
over 5 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.
over 5 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….)
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration