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Rational Programming Patterns

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Better control of redefinitions of entities in project hierarchy

In our organisation, we want to forbid the redefinition of an entity in the hierarchy of projects (entities of same name in the same tree of projects). This was a key feature of Pacbase to allow the administrator to forbid such redefinitions. To d...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

RPP generated cobol program not adhering to cobol standards

RFE opened on behalf of AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL, related to RFE https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103616 initially opened against RTC. Currently at Ameriprise Financial we have RPP v9.1.2 installed. Now the pro...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Use of line number as parameter in macro is not working

Email from Remili, the developer: Hi Srinivas, could you please open a ticket for this specific macro that our team uses. Right now we have a workaround but it will be good if they can fix it for the new RPP version.This is for our macro ADVATR, w...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

[RPP] Update Date-compiled

Is there a way in the preferences to automatically change the date compiled when a program (cbl) is modified
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 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...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

When code is generated by PACBASE, we can see the number of the session in CONSTANTES-PAC

When code is generated by PACBASE, we can see the number of the session in CONSTANTES-PAC . This number is actually the only way to control some installation on production sites . Actually in SDP we find 9999T in every generated code When need to ...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Enable switching from PACBASE and COBOL facets in the same workspace

Problems may appear when switching from one facet to another.
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Is a defect

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 6 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 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

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 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 6 Not under consideration