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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Developer for Power Systems
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Rational
Product family - Design & development
Product - Developer for Power Systems
Thank you for taking the time to suggest this enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us.
Currently, navigating between external calls to subroutines, procedures, and programs can be done with the Application Diagram view. Application Diagram lets you vizualize the flow of your application with respect to external calls. Called programs can be viewed and opened from this view.
Although we can see the value of your requested enhancement, with competing priorities and the workaround of using Application Diagram we do not have plans to address this request over the next 18 months. If after 18 months, this continues to be important for you business needs, please feel free to resubmit for reconsideration.
A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.
A view of the Prototype in the /COPY book must still be available somewhere. It is more likely to be used than the source code of the Module, if the module name is accurately described. For long names of Module, the full name must be visible. For my Copybooks, the 10A name is immaterial, since the long name of the SubModule is stored in the 50A Text of the Source member. -JV