What's new in Rational Programming Patterns

The following functions have been added for Rational® Programming Patterns Version 9.1.1.

New publishing feature

• The instances of the Volume entity can now be migrated, modified, and created in Rational Programming Patterns.
• A Volume is constituted of titles and instance descriptions that can be explicitly called or dynamically retrieved by requests according to selection criteria.
• The call of a Text instance can be filtered at a section level.
• The call lines of Model entities are not managed.

Usability enhancements

• It is now possible to duplicate a whole Program, Screen, or Server, with all its associated generated files. Duplication was previously available for the instance design only.
• New wizards are available to create custom quality rules.
• Two new entities make it easier to manage the error messages and the copybooks.
• A new Generation Manager view indicates all the instances that must be generated again in the workspace. It detects the instances whose code is not synchronized with the design of the instance itself or of an instance that is involved in its generation. This new view makes it easy to request a multiple or global regeneration.

Ergonomics improvements

• The presentation of the differences in the design compare editor has been enhanced. All the information that is needed to optimize the comparisons is now displayed.
• A new Load artifacts option is now available from the result view of a design, an artifact, or a reference search on the Rational Team Concert™ server. It is used to load one or more selected artifacts without loading their required artifacts.
• The design and artifact searches on the Rational Team Concert server now run in an asynchronous mode. You can then keep on working while the search runs in the background.
• A new criterion in the Design Explorer view sorts the projects according to their position in the hierarchy of the design build path.

Enhancements of the migration procedures

• The MIAM migration procedure detects some error types in Pacbase and automatically corrects them before the migration.
• The migration time of several sessions has been optimized. All the artifacts of the first session are loaded but only the new or modified artifacts of the next session are loaded.
• The migration validation can now be started in batch mode. It can be run automatically by the migration help feature to simplify the migration tasks.
• The UTOV procedure detects the multiple existence of an instance in the Libraries of a network. It removes all the redundant cases.

Rational Programming Patterns Software Development Kit (SDK)

The data dictionary that supports the native COBOL developments has been enhanced. Generic skeletons that are not necessarily related to the COBOL language can be defined. To manage these skeletons, a new Source Code entity has been created.

To edit the generated code of these new entities, a source code editor is now available.