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EGL Language

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Better charts

Hi,we need as soon as possible some better line, column and bar charts like this: http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/line/site_traffic/ http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/column/oil_r...
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Provide capability to supply x-axis labels on DojoBarChart

Currently, only y-axis values can be represented on a Dojo bar chart. (This is not a limitation of Dojo but a limitation of the EGL wrapper.) We would like to be able to label bars displayed by the DojoBarChart widget on the x axis. In the current...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Memory de-allocation of Library Function variables before leaving the function

We would like to see the automatic de-allocate of the local Library Function Variables before leaving the Function. This would reduce the memory consumption of the CICS Transaction.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

suppressChangeEvent on DojoCheckBox and other Dojo-fields

RBD9.5 introduced a property suppressChangeEvent on DojoTextField. This was very useful since we were now able to eliminate a lot of code that would simulate this working when set to true. However, this property seemed to be implemented on text-ba...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

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