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Rational Programming Patterns

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Highlighting the beginning and the end of an IF or PERFORM statement

With cobol editor, when i select a "IF", the "ELSE" and "END-IF" are highlighted.Same thing wirh "Perform End-Perform", Evaluate, End-Evaluate and all instructions vith scope terminator. With PDP Cobol Editor, it will be very useful to have this h...
about 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Is a defect

Copy an item from a component in different component of a different stream

Hellowe want to copy/duplicate an item from the component Y of stream A in the component Z of the stream B.It is not possible with the SDP. In the PMR 65559.660.706 we explain in details our needBest RegardsDelphine
about 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Research feature with cobol pdp editor

Hello, In the basic Cobol editor when a research is done or when a rubric selected, there are flags in the right column that indicate where it called. These flags have different colors depending of if the rubric is being used or is being set. In t...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Is a defect

Remove Multiple Lines

It would be nice to be able to remove multiple rows from tabs such as -GC in one action. Or a bindable action to do the deletes. Click on a line, then clicking remove can be time consuming.
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Cobol Collision during migration by delta

We have a program rejected during migration by delta and just before we have the message 'Cobol collision found' for --assignGenerationProjectsAndFolders
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

COBOL facet : Make available Data Element inheritance

The concept of data element inheritance, as defined in PACBASE, would be useful too in COBOL facet, since it cas represent a high semantic link between items.The concept should be extended, so that several levels oh inheritance can be defined (in ...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Insertion de liens hypertextes dans les Design RPP

Nous souhaiterions avoir la possibilit? de pouvoir ins?rer des liens hypertextes dans les fiches de Design RPP (par exemple dans les commentaires) afin de pouvoir associer des informations externes
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

RPP - Segment - impossible to get information out of the tool

Within RPP it is impossible to extract or cut and paste the layout description of a Segment so it could be processed further for Designs or documentation outside RPP. Cut and paste on the Screen is not enabled, thus denying easy Access.When extrac...
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Generated code structure view - Keep the value of the 'Filter' field from one session to the next

Actually, when we reopen RPP workspace, we loose the value of the 'Filter' field (Generated Code Structure View) defined in the last session.
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Lack of function “locate” in the view Design Explorer

Lack of function ?locate? in the view "Design Explorer". In RPP you can put a filter in the Design Explorer.But it is possible to create only one filter at a time with this view.This is not very convenient. If you use the synchronize function (dou...
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration