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Perform Batch Reanalysis on FA Originating LPAR in SYSPLEX

This idea would benefit all users who run Fault Analyzer in a sysplex environment, use Fault History Views that cover history files from different LPARs in said sysplex, and have LPAR specific dependencies where running the batch reanalysis on an ...
25 days ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0

DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".We do have a zos usermod in one of client system which changes the LE delimiter separator character from "/" to "\" and...
8 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have EGL support SSO using Kerberos

We'd like to use EGL in a Single Sign On environment as follows:- User logs on to Windows (Active Directory)- User opens our EGL application in a browser (Firefox)- EGL application calls EGL program call service- EGL proxy (running on Linux/WAS) r...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Option to generate REST Open API Service JSON file without REST RPC lines

We want to create a OPEN API REST Service project without REST RPC. At this moment when a JSON file is created there are also REST RPC lines in it.As a result of that Postman uses this RST RPC Endpoint.
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Make IBM Fault analyzer to work with BLKOFF option as well

In our organization we have used BLKOFF as default option while compiling programs and now to introduce Fault analyzer its not an easy transition as by default we are not able to use the existing compile listing as side files. We have to re-compil...
11 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.) In EGL un...
over 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

XML Processing Support

As XML is a defacto standard for distributed enterprise application communication, EGL should provide complete in-built support for XML processing. This includes parsing, validating, transforming, querying XML documents. Currently EGL only support...
about 17 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

FA Eclipse: Show variable content in Cobol Source

I want to see the contents of working-storage/linkage variables in the opened Cobol source (e.g. with mouseover / hover-over) when using the Eclipse plugin for Fault Analyzer and open the programs source code
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

EGL does not support recursion in records

Currently, EGL doesn't support records with recursive datatypes, meaning that records that look something like record rec1 r rec1[ ];end are not possible in EGL. Since I've come across quite a few web services written in Java that return an object...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration