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EGL Language

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Option to generate a client interface from a REST OPEN API JSON file

it's very usefull to generate the client interface from a SOAP WSDL file. But now EGL also supports REST OPEN API, and generates these REST OPEN API JSON files, which is great.But the other way around this isn't possible. We would like to see that...
about 1 month ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Under review

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.
about 1 month ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Under review

I need to be able to specify: "Run this step only if all previous step gave cond code less than 5"

“EGL Generation Guide, Version 7 Release 5.1. Chapter "Overview of COBOL generation", "Modifying EGL build scripts for z/OS", "EXEC statement" shows, that COND with no stepname is allowed. And I really need to be able to specify: "Run this step on...
8 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program

This is to resolve an issue we raised in Case number TS010545379. We have been asked to raise a RFE to provide a new feature to bring resolution to the issue. The feature is to define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program. From the case accor...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

RBD 無法指定 EGL 代碼以外的 MQ TCP/IP 連接屬性,希望能由EGL Build Descriptor CallLink Elements定義MQ相關屬性

在原有VAGen MQ應用程式需要Linkage Options:mqic32.lkg來運行 mqic32.lkg內容:calllink applname=elaq* linktype=dynamic dllname=csomqc32 bitmode=32 parmform=oslink 由VAGen轉EGL時RBD無法於EGL Build Descriptor Call Link做設定,訪問MQ Server會失敗不認得需於程式新增MQEnvironment物件指定相關MQ TCP/IP...
over 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface"

We would like to have the possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface".This way we can make sure a new "EGL - Create EGL client interface" action is not moving records to other sourcefiles. In the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Rational Business Developer dependency analyze Tool

Client has large EGL project need to analyze its dependency, the need RBD to add a tool to read RBD temp file like *dg.
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Sonarqube analyzer for EGL

We want to analyze quality of EGL code.There is already a tool which name is Software Analyzer in RBD.We want to analyze EGL code with Sonarqube besides Software Analyzer.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration