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Status Delivered
Workspace Rational Programming Patterns
Created by Guest
Created on May 8, 2014

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Keeping Design and Cobol Source in Sync

When making changes to both the Design and Cobol source, CHECK IN and DELIVER could get cumbersome.

The .cblpdp and .cbl could be combined into the same Change Set. However, the .pacprogram is separate.

The developer may not Deliver all Change Sets causing the design to be out of sync with the Cobol source.

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Idea priority Medium
  • 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
    Reply
    |     Oct 31, 2014

    This feature was delivered in version 9.1.1 through Generation Manager feature.

    Remark : it is nevertheless not possible to combine changes impacting elements coming from several components into 1 change set. Work Item is a good container to group change sets in a coherent way.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 30, 2014

    an API will be available on COBOL sources. You'll have to write a pre-condition on deliver.

  • Guest
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    |     May 8, 2014

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