IBM® Rational® Programming Patterns V9.5.1 – Release Notes

 

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Purpose  

IBM Rational Programming Patterns V9.5.1 is a modification release of Rational Programming Patterns 9.5.

It contains new features and defects corrections.

 

Information and References

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Fixes included in this release

 

APAR

Summary

PI49187

RPP does not show the cross references for the Data Elements called in the -CE of a Report

PI49305

Description of keyword not migrated in Thesaurus

PI51965

COA is not generated in column 73

PI55570

PDP Quickfix does not work in the PDP Cobol Editor

PI56434

Micropatterns not taken into account by Microfocus-RDAL transformation

PI57224

MIBJ - "Cobol Collision Found" when external program has been changed

PI57274

In RPP 9.1.2.2 the generated command file is not complete for the journal import process (MIBJ)

PI57386

 Working line with continuation truncated when ending by spaces (MIMA procedure)

PI57624

.cbl file already existing in multisession migration

PI59042

Performance problem when accepting change set

PI59065

Issue when trying to merge CD lines of a Program

PI59212

The stream list displayed in Search window is not stored

PI59848

Wrong position of line in WSS causes compilation errors

PI60109

Generation of error messages fails after import

PI61302

Overlapping fields not detected by screen simulation

PI62448

RPP 9.1.1.1 upgrade in 9.5 version causes loss of sub/super references

PI64254

Field tableNumber in table-type segment not taken into account at generation

PI64760

Abnormal presence of tag "artificialCreate" in right margin

PI64762

Abnormal time for building links between designs and generated files

PI64986

RPP 9.1.2.2 does not allow to deliver all generated files of a Screen with the same change set

PI65058

View is automatically swapped to Error and message displayed when switching sub/super references

PI65548

Model Access Facility: The "redefines" group is omitted

PI65639

Vertical scrollbar disappears on -CE of Segment description

PI65726

Overlapping Macros cause Warning, should be Informational

PI65779

RPP Client 9.1.2.2 receives an error when attempting to search for the instances that contain the key of Input Aids

PI66412

RPP 9.5.0.1 cannot deliver entities because of "unresolved reference" with selected RPP precondition

PI66923

Exception "FWK005 parse may not be called while parsing" during --REBUILDGENERATEDLINKS

PI67436

Subfunction misplaced when using "Add function" wizard in Macrostructure editor

PI67501

DDL generated of Database Block does not contain some user input from DRnnn GG lines

PI67815

Bad generation of condition in "DW" type of subfunction when coming from a Macrostructure

PI68190

Missing .BMS file in Pending Changes view

PI68773

RPP 9.1.2 does not generate a Program when a Segment which calls Data Element with controls is added in the -CD of the Program

PI68776

RPP 9.5.0 Client does not display the correct relation label in the Level, Address and length tab of a Segment

PI68777

RPP Client 9.1.2 systematically places the scrollbar at the beginning of the User Entity detailed description

PI69012

RPP 9.1.2 loses some generated specific code after a macro was removed from the -CP of the Program

PI69268

RPP 9.5.0 migration process does not allow to use the generation option 'C'

PI70057

Specific code from a tag is deleted when removing unrelated tag (COBOL facet)

PI70105

Comparison pane not refreshed after transferring line from left to right

PI70436

Line wrongly inserted in subfunction in "Case of" content

PI70562

RPP Client 9.1.2 does not retrieve the server super-references for data aggregate

PI70685

Quality Control wrongly detects overridden lines of Macro structures

PI71089

Focus also put on Design view when opening COBOL editor

PI71805

Generation of standard Help screen fails with Java exception

PI71818

Type of Data Element not updatable in Detail view of -CE tab

PI72487

RPP Client 9.5.0.1 does not generate new Data Element added in a Segment which belongs to a subschema

 

 

You may refer to IBM Support Portal for more information on available Downloads and Fixes.

 

Known problems and workarounds

Generation differences

Reminder from RPP 8.5 and still applicable:

Some differences between a same program generated from Pacbase and RPP remain unresolved.

In spite of the fact that those differences are compensated by the pattern recognition technology, the consequences are:

- The number of specific code lines is greater in RPP than in Pacbase

- A new program created and generated in RPP might be slightly different than in Pacbase

 

RPP replaces the line in difference with the line coming from Pacbase and shows the line as it is locally generated in a tooltip text. Thus:

- The source code of the program is the same in RPP & Pacbase

- The compilation of those programs gives the same executable as in Pacbase

Some differences are solved in RPP, while some others will be solved in upcoming fix packs or releases.

 

Associated level of Pacbase

It is highly recommended to use this release with the corresponding level of Pacbase when working on the migration process from Pacbase to RPP:

Pacbase 3.5 Y10F

 

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