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Rational Programming Patterns

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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.
over 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...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

More comprehensive error

In the entity creation window, the error message "Select a library" appears that the field to fill is "generation parameter" Could do we see a more coherent error message with the field to complete ? thanks in advance, regards,
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

field 'wording' in a rubric entity

During a creation or modification of a rubric entity, may enter more than 36 characters in a field 'wording' without being blocked. Will do we" do we have a blockage in the 'wording' field if the limit is reached ?
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Demande d'évolution : pouvoir cloner un programme (avec ses spécificités)

Actuellement, RPP (facette COBOL) ne permet pas de dupliquer une entité programme, tout en incluant dans le nouveau tout le code spécifique du programme existant. Cette fonctionnalité parait incontournable. Par exemple, pour Verspieren, c'est indi...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

Mass Macro Changes

In pacbase, we can go to the -XP of a macro and change every program that uses that macro from one screen. I could not find an option to do this in RPPz.
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Exporter les instances RPP dans un fichier .xmi grâce à la commande rpp.bat

Bonjour, Sous Eclipse, nous avons aujourd'hui la possibilité d'exporter les instances d'un repository RPP dans un fichier xmi en cliquant droit sur ce dernier > Export. Il faudrait permettre d'obtenir le même résultat via une commande du rpp.ba...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration