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Support of PhoneGap / Apache Cordova

With the Mobile preview: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL%20Mobile%20Web%20Preview you can create Mobile Websites. But when you want to make use of hardwa...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Official version of Dojo Mobile components

We want to develop mobile web applications. Currently this can only be done with a preview of the Dojo Mobile components: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

64-bit RBD debugger and Remote VSAM; Support for Z/VSE SAM ESDS files in VSEDDM and VSE connector

This RFE contains three items. 1) Z/VSE SAM ESDS support to RBD's remote VSAM access (via VSEDDM and VCS)3) Possibility to select which VSE Connector's port VSEDDM is using2) VSEDDM support for 64-bit RBD
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Filteringselect dojo widget

We are missing the dojo component FilteringSelect in RBD. Availability of this widget would provide great improvement when picking restricted values from a combobox, combined with typing to filter the values.At this moment this can only be done th...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

RBD/EGL support for DB2 for z/OS XML columns

RBD/EGL doesn't support DB2 for z/OS XML column type. This represents a significant obstacle for EGL developers to integrate their appliactions with DB2 objects used by Websphere/java appliactions.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Need For New Option for RBD SQL Retrieve

Hello, We use RBD tool. In this tool, when we retrieve rows from DB2 table with SQL Retrieve module, we want to change table names to lowercase. There are three option over there but need for new option.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Link to JavaScript files i.s.o copying them into deployed EGL RUI HTML (Dynamic Loading)

When deploying an EGL RUI handler to an HTML file, all referenced JavaScript files are copied into the HTML. This makes the HTML really large, increasing load time and initial response in the browser. It also causes duplication of widget JavaScrip...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Delivered

EGL - GET DIAGNOSTICS statement

We want support in EGL for the GET DIAGNOSTICS statement. EGL has the basic ROWSET processing, but doesn'n implement the GET DIAGNOSTICS support.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Overload resolution bug

When a library has multiple functions with the same name, and the same number of parameters (but of different types), the compiler sometimes generates code that calls the wrong function, if one of the parameter values is null.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Bug: nullable decimal field not null when returned from service to Rich UI

We have a service that returns a record where one of the fields is a nullable decimal. We have a Rich UI application that calls this service via SOAP.If we set the field value to null in the service function (we confirmed that it is null before re...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered