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Status Delivered
Workspace Rational Programming Patterns
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 8, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

Support ELSE for IF on Function/Subfunction level

Within RPP it is possible to Create Function/Subfunction with Conditions IT, DW, DU.

It is not possible to get an ELSE for the IT construct in current release (9.1.2).

Request is to include functionality that will create IT ELSE construct as in Pacbase across Subfunctions
(e.g.
F60DE IT
F60DG EL).
If Then Else constructs are part of any Basic language and Support in RPP is not directly given.

Also the move of function/subfunction to be supported. So if above example is moving to e.g. F60FE F60FG the structure and the end-if/goto should be updated accordingly.

Coding the ELSE part manually is not a good ideaas it is likely to be done wrong and in case of moving function/subfunctions it is likely to be forgotten to update the goto accordingly.
Specially for new Developers not having Pacbase experience the IF ELSE construct in Pacbase and thus RPP is very hard to understand.
It is very likely over time that 'Standard Cobol' constructs will be introduced due to missing Support of construct that will have negative influence to the RPP/Pacbase construct of Function/Subfunction logic.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 6, 2017

    This feature was delivered in version 9.5.1.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 18, 2016

    The feature that is described in this request is a candidate for a future release.

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