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Rational Programming Patterns

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Deleting a segment should be automatically followed by its deletion in the -LS of the Data Structure

Hi, Deleting a segment must be followed automatically by a remove of it from the -LS Lines of the associated Data Sctructure, just like the creation of the segment automatically adds it to the -LS Lines of the associated Data Structure. This is wh...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

WF Micropattern DES=3 LEV=2 in Cobol Screen with 3 index generated as in a batch Program

Hi, When a Segment xxnn has a value in the Table size field of Segment Definition tab (Data Structure doesn’t have a common part Segment), if I insert the WF Micropattern in Working storage of a Screen to declare a table using this segment with De...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Generate FROM/INTO db2_view in a pacprogram from dataagregate -gg

The standards are to use the generation of SQL EXEC statements from the -gg of dataagregate. The purpose is also to specify the -gg "a minima", usually the WHERE clause. Work is underway to bring programs that do not use this generation back up to...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Rule to detect SELECT * in RPP designs

SELECT * is not a good way to get columns in DB2. RSA rules for RPP detects SELECT * only in specific code.
about 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Improved RPP Compares

We do walkthroughs of our code changes by stepping through the compare report. When doing this for a Screen, there are tons of differences in generated code. We'd like an option to ignore generated differences. Or an improvement to the compare alg...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

[RPP] DDL with clause "NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT constant"

In RPP, select option 'P' in CMS456 in dataaggragate -ce generate a clause NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in the .ddl. NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT in DB2 allows inserting rows in a table without specify the value. A column with type integer or decimal would be ...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

BNPP - Usage - Library Variant and MAF extractions

MAF extractions should take into account the usage and the library variant according to the rule implemented today in PACBASE.
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Usable Program Control Flow for RPP

Given how RPP 9.5.1.7 generates Cobol code with many paragraph names, the Program Control Flow view is completely unusable. We would like a usable Program Control Flow for RPP integrated with RDZ/IDZ Debug. I spoke with Bill Alexander at the IDZ u...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

RPP - Search with cross-reference key in Input Aid's –D Lines tab

In RPP , search with cross-reference key in Input Aids D Lines tab don't give any detail (value entered in variable part) For example, in RPP, search for the instances that contain the key AUTEUR in Input Aid REMONT : we have a list of entities th...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Better control of redefinitions of entities in project hierarchy

In our organisation, we want to forbid the redefinition of an entity in the hierarchy of projects (entities of same name in the same tree of projects). This was a key feature of Pacbase to allow the administrator to forbid such redefinitions. To d...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

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