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Rational Programming Patterns

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RPP - Creation of COBOL COPYBOOK from a DATA AGGREGATE

Improved ergonomics: it would be nice to be able to generate a COPYBOOK directly from a RPP data aggregate (?S? entity) without passing by the DATA UNIT (?D? entity).
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

RPP ? Duplicating a program

Duplicating a program (P, O, OC, OS entity) with RPP involves the following steps:1) Duplication Model (copy / paste)2) Duplication of COBOL3) At the time of BUILD, seized properties (language definition) program It would be very convenient to be ...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

RPP - Using a data element is difficult in RPP

Using a data element is difficult with RPP.Whenever a data element (?E? entity) should be called (creation segment, setting macrostructure, report creation (?-CE?) ...) with RPP it is mandatory to use a combo box with all elements of your local wo...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Delivered

RPP - settings and comments with the same color in a macrostructure

Comments appear in pale green in the code macrostructures.Parameters lines appear with the same green. A color difference will significantly improve reading of a macrostructure. We did not find any parameter in the SDP to do it.
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

RPP V8.5 - Copy / Paste not available in entity models

With PACBASE (in fact with 3270 emulator) it is possible to do COPY / PASTE from a ?segment? (?S? entity) in particular with ?-LAL ? who indicates the position and the length of the data. This is very useful for documenting a technical text, or a ...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Delivered

Chargement des entit?s ipact?es par une modification du mod?le

Suite ? une analyse d'impact, nous souhaitons charger ces art?facts facilement. Deux limites nous emp?chent de le faire simplement via la fonction " load required art?fact" : Le nombre d'art?facts pouvant faire l'objet d'un chargement group? est l...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Fonction de synchronisation source COBOL/mod?le RPP au niveau du workspace local

Dans la vue "Pending Changes", tous les changements des modeles RPP sur un stream remont?s sur RTC sont affich?s au developpeur quel que soit le contenu de son workspace. Dans le cadre RPP, cela signifie un volume important ( pour info environ 200...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

In the Pac Library entity, be able to enter the Cobol Target folder by entity type

In the metaentity PAC Library, in the group Cobol Target , separate the different type of generated source. It would be great to have a different folder for each type of generated source :- Pac program Cobol- Pac screen maps- Pac screen Cobol,- Co...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

DDL ? Affichage des libell? des rubriques filles dans la fen?tre de s?lection des rubriques

DDL - Ajout d'une rubrique dans des lignes I (Index), J(cl? ?trang?re), K(cl? primaire)Dans la fen?tre de s?lection des rubriques du segment, le libell? des rubriques filles doit appara?t pas au m?me titre que les autres rubriques.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Analyse fichier OUTRQER de la proc?dure MIAM

Bonjour, Le fichier RQ issu de la proc?dure MIAM recense un certain nombre d'anomalies en amont de la migration.Cependant, les anomalies rencontr?es n'ont pas toutes le m?me impact : ex : Une anomalie de type ET1 (Etat avec ligne de libell? en dou...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered