Rational Programming Patterns

Development tools for Pacbase applications

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Accelerates a secure transition to IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform

IBM Rational Programming Patterns v8.5 protects Pacbase investments by modernizing pattern driven development and enterprise repository services for the IBM delivery platform. It includes tools for low cost migration, limiting the non-regression tests and the need for re-training Pacbase developers.

IBM Rational Programming Patterns v8.5 provides:

• Enhanced migration performance from VisualAge Pacbase to Rational Delivery Platform.
• Improved performance in memory and loading capabilities.
• Enhanced impact analysis for increased maintenance productivity.
• Upgraded usability features for increased productivity.
• Advanced quality control rules for ensuring streamlined development.

Enhanced migration performance

• Secures the migration from VisualAge Pacbase to the Software Delivery Platform.
• Improves large repository migration performance through model entities dispatching mechanisms and memory optimization with serialization capability and display filters.
• Enhances migration process with improved removal of COBOL source code differences, automating controls and clarifying messages.
• Allows for vertically split libraries, as the import functionality will create several projects from a split library during the migration process; several projects (one by type) are created for one library according to the entries of the MIBR and MIBA procedures.
• Extends SCM (Software Configuration Management) tools to associate language definitions and data set definitions with zFiles and zFolders in the software configuration management (SCM).

Improved performance

• Reduces memory consumption using new indexing technology for storing Rational Programming Patterns metadata on Eclipse client.
• Improves memory management on Eclipse client, reducing the volume of data through new capability for storing references between generated and design files.
• Provides new loading method for limiting the number of the loaded artifacts to the artifacts required by one or more selected artifacts which can be design files or files that contain the source of an instance.
• Displays design view selection wizards of instances that can be called based on the project dependencies; instances displayed are limited to the relevant instances, reducing their numbers.
• Allows new "design explorer" filter dialog to be opened with the standard Eclipse tool bar menu; dialog provides context and artifact criterion.

Impact analysis enhancements

• Proposes a list of the entities (program, standard screen, client, or server) calling the selected macro with different parameters in order to have an X equivalent for macros (read mode).
• Allows new search page queries to extract all Rational Programming Patterns server artifacts (design and generated artifacts) with results displayed in a new result server search view.
• Facilitates end user adoption with ergonomic improvement of source code and design entity editors, as well as impact analysis tooling enhancements.

Usability enhancements

• Includes contextual menus in editable tables of the design editors, containing the actions that were previously accessed through buttons only.
• Displays only the value of the item in each editable table of the design editors for all combination boxes.
• Allows for filtering entities on the code and label when a dialog box is displayed to select an entity.
• Enhances the generated code structure view readability by displaying the titles of the COBOL Pac generated and user functions derived from the comments.
• Improves source code quality control through user rules creation facility for design entities and COBOL source code.
• Allows new "target multiple types" function to associate a meta entity type to several base types for adding the same extension to several base types.

Quality control enhancements

• Assigns design rule that the external name of an entity is the same as the code.
• Controls that there are less than x lines of specific COBOL lines in the source code assigned in new COBOL rule.
• Improves source code quality control through user rules creation facility for design entities and COBOL source code.

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IBM Rational Programming Patterns enhances the set of development and delivery tools of IBM Rational Developer for System z, for zEnterprise and for Power Systems Software and IBM Rational Team Concert. This solution provides functionality adapted to the Pacbase Pattern Driven development paradigm for applications developed with VisualAge Pacbase. Rational Programming Patterns features data description patterns, programming patterns for traditional applications, macro-structure patterns, and COBOL micro-patterns.

Prerequisites

VisualAge Pacbase 3.5 V08: To migrate from a Pacbase repository, you must first extract data from Pacbase, which will be imported into Rational Programming Patterns. The extraction procedures used to create the data are available with the 3.5 V08 version of Pacbase. If this release is not installed on your site, please contact a VisualAge Pacbase support representative to request it:

• US Customers: vapacsup@us.ibm.com
• Non-US customers: vapacsup@fr.ibm.com

Rational Developer V8.5: Choose from one of the following editions:

• Rational Developer for System z
• Rational Developer for System z Enterprise
• Rational Developer for Power Systems

Rational Team Concert 4.0 (Developer for IBM Enterprise Platforms license): Integrates work item tracking, source control management, continuous builds, iteration planning, and a highly configurable process support to adapt to the way you want to work, enabling developers, architects, project managers, and project owners to work together effectively.

Rational Programming Patterns Client

Rational Programming Patterns Server (Jazz Team Server)

The above system requirements are a general guide only. For the detailed server software requirements, please read the following: Windows, AIX, Linux and z/OS.