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Rational Programming Patterns

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Allow copy from -CE & -LAL tabs

In Pacbase, it was very easy to copy a -LAL or -CE screen (or any screen) and send that via email to a user (or to document for a project). There is no way to copy multiple lines in many of the screens with RPP.
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

ADC Micropattern

ADC micropattern "calls the system date with the century. The date is loaded into the DATCE constant and possibly in the field that is indicated in the operands". So I think that ADC micropattern should generate this code: "ACCEPT DATCE FROM DATE ...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Incomplete migration of volume (PACBASE "V" entities) in RPP

Incomplete migration of volume (PACBASE "V" entities) in RPP Please see the attached file.In PACBASE you have a volume with a Data Aggregate (see below) You can see a text associate with EC15 Data Aggregate (SEC15AT) and details (-CE) of the Data ...
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

References croisees Rubrique Etat manquantes

Lorsqu'une rubrique est utilis?e dans une entit? ?tat, dans PACBASE on retrouve ces liens avec la commande XR. Dans RPP, les super-r?f?rences de cette rubrique ne donnent pas les m?mes r?sultats. Il manque des liens.
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Ajout d'un bouton "Générer le code" dans la fiche de définition d'un programme

Dans la vue "Explorateur de design" quand le nombre d'entit? est trop cons?quent (> 5000), par d?fault l'explorateur n'affiche que les 5000 premiers ?l?ments. Si on ouvre une entit? programme ne se trouvant pas dans l'arborescence, le seul moye...
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Delivered

New 32 byte TIMESTAMP element format

DB2 allows a timestamp value of up to 12 digits following the decimal point for higher precision in timestamps. RPP currently has a data element format TS which generates as a PIC X(26) based on a 6-digit fractional second portion of the DB2 times...
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Moving of Sub functions not final (having sub functions)

Extending programs to include new code sometimes requires to move existing sub functions to new names to create room to place the new code. At the moment this requires time consuming moving around sub functions to other levels as only sub function...
about 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

In PDP Cobol Editor, we should add some tasks or bookmarks that will be kept after each regeneration

When updating a Cobol source in PDP Cobol Editor, I would like to add some tasks or bookmarks in order to make the navigation easier in the Cobol source.Now, if I had some bookmarks or tasks into my Cobol source, theses bookmarks or tasks disappea...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Provide a precondition to deliver to check that no reconciliation warnings exist

In some circumstances, we want to force developers to deliver code having no reconcilation warning.So we would like to have in implemented the product a precondition to the deliver that could forbid to deliver a COBOL module having one or more rec...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Copier/coller à partir d'une recherche ou d'un filtre

Bonjour, Serait-il possible :1) Soit de rendre possible le copier/coller depuis une recherche2) Soit d'afficher le design créé à partir d'un copier/coller dans un filtre RPP Merci de voir plus d'explication dans le document ci-jointBien cordialeme...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered