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Rational Programming Patterns

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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

Publish xml segments

As a user of the Programming Patterns publish feature, I would like more control over how the xml file is created. When selecting multiple segments, and including their 'referenced instances', the referenced instances are not in the correct order ...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Vue "Structure du code généré" : cocher par défaut "supprimer également ses dépendant"

Quand on supprimer une sous-fonction via la vue "Structure du code généré", il faudrait que la case "Supprimer également ses dépendants" soit cochée par défaut (éventuellement via paramétrage à la main des admins)
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Vue "Structure du code généré" : supprimer plusieurs sous-fonctions en une seule action

Supprimer plusieurs sous-fonctions en une seule action permet de gagner du temps de développement, en particulier en cas de positionnement relatif (anciens *A * P * R) car la suppression entraîne la regénération du programme : dix sous-fonctions à...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Add editor features for historical files

When opening historical versions of cbl files (team > show history > open), the editor lacks features like Find, occurrences, and generated code structure view. Trying to use outline throws a java exception as well.
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than 9 break levels in Programming Patterns

We recently had reason to develop a program with more than 9 levels of control breaking. The source of the input was a DB2 cursor. We tried to use a group field, but that does not generate correctly when using an Organization of '2'. The group fie...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Not under consideration