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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 30, 2013

RPP ? Duplicating a program

Duplicating a program (P, O, OC, OS entity) with RPP involves the following steps:
1) Duplication Model (copy / paste)
2) Duplication of COBOL
3) At the time of BUILD, seized properties (language definition) program

It would be very convenient to be able to do all these manipulations in a single click.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - Programming Patterns

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Programming Patterns

  • Guest
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    Oct 24, 2014

    This feature was delivered in version 9.1.1.

  • Guest
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    Aug 6, 2014

    This RFE's Headline was changed after submission to reflect the headline of an internal request we were already considering, but will now track here.

  • Guest
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    Aug 6, 2014

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