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Rational Programming Patterns

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Rules of control of promotion

If the rule "Contrôle qu'aucun fichier design contributeurs aux fichiers générés susceptibles d'être distribués n'est manquant" is active, it is impossible to promote a program if you have modify a design after the generation. You Must promote the...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Waterfall library display.

i'm facing, several times now, since i start coding with RPP a problem with data creation/ modification. With PACBASE data elements, "segments" and data structure were defined in to libraries. The libraries itselves were hierarchicaly organized in...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Chainage accès SQL issu de -gg

Il n'est pas possible de savoir dans quel programmes ou écrans est utilisé tel ou tel accès SQL issu d'un -gg de segment.
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Rational Programming Patterns : REFER generation option in Dialog and Screen entities

REFER / REF generation option entered in dialog complement tab or in - GO lines of a screen's -G lines tab do not generate "the LIST OF REFERENCED ENTITIES" in the Cobol program's Working Storage Section. If this "LIST OF REFERENCED ENTITIES' is a...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Rarional Programming Patterns: having subscripts automatically located in the subscript data group.

When using RPP (V9.5.1) I noticed that the subscripts generated thru the snippets are not generated in binary format (COMP, COMP-4/5 or BINARY usage) - preferred format for this kind of data -. RPP seems to expect the user to add a group data item...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 5 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
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

[RPP] Bloc BD - génération rubrique format non conforme

Lors de la génération de DDL, les rubriques de format "non conforme" (par exemple numérique DISPLAY) ne sont pas signalées en erreur contrairement à PACBASE, par exemple : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Is a defect

Ordre étiquettes sous-fonctions sur prévisualisation MSP

Partant d'un nouveau programme de nature T pour des tests, j'ai créé une fonction 70 en 05BL avec des sous-fonctions 70BA 10BL, 70BE 15IT et 70BI 15EL. Puis, j'ai appelé une macro, valorisé les paramètres en particulier l'emplacement en 70CA 10BL....
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 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