IBM® Rational® Programming Patterns V9.1 – Release Notes

 

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Purpose

IBM Rational Programming Patterns V9.1 is a release of Rational Programming Patterns

It contains new features and defects corrections.

 

Information and References

For information about documentation and support resources, software and hardware requirements, and installation or upgrade steps, see the Rational Programming Patterns page.

Additional information can be found on IBM Publication Center.

You may find also a “What’s new in this Release” chapter in the Installation Guide as well as in the IBM Product Knowledge Centers.

 

 

Fixes included in this release

 

APAR number

Summary

Internal id

PI16515

A NullPointerException occurred when trying to add an entity ('pactext' editor, 'sections' page)

19104

PI16509

Generation failed when containing an empty WI micropattern (no call of dataelement)

19025

PI16520

Copy-Paste in PacReport editor (-D Lines) results in java.lang.ClassCastException

19140

 

 

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

Known problems and workarounds

Generation differences

Some differences between a same program generated from Pacbase and RPP 9.1 stay unresolved. In spite of the fact that those differences are compensated by the pattern recognition technology, the consequences are:

- A number of lines of specific code in RPP 9.1 greater than in Pacbase

- A new program created and generated in RPP could 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 generated locally in a tooltip text. Thus:

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

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

Some differences are solved in RPP 9.1, while some others will be solved in upcoming fix packs or releases.

Other limits or known problems under investigation

Internal ID

Summary

14744

Code derivation - Batch program: generation failed in some cases

2565

Pactables extract procedures have no equivalent in RPP

7330

Copybook generation: "Alias" are not managed

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 V10X

 

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