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EGL Language

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DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

RBD SQL Retrieve lowercase charachter problem

Hello, Depending on the RFE record that number is 121100, change letter to lowercase must made according to English character set.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 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...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Comparing 2 nullable values that are both null returns false

We have 2 variables that are nullable (for example: nullable ints or nullable dates).If both variables are null, and we check them for equality, the result should be true, but it's false. Code example:a, b int?;a = null;b = null;if(a == b) writeSt...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

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 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

AA EGL RTL support children of a widget with RTL

This issue is kind of generic, It's regarding the RTL support, Unlike the HTML, the children of a widget with RTL orientation does NOT always inherit the orientation, most of it has its default LTR settings,that means, when we want to present a sc...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL Genrator targeting WAS Batch Enviroment

An option in the EGL generator for targeting the WAS Batch/ Extended Deployment Compute Grid as a runtime environment for Java-generated EGL programs
about 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Dojo MenuBar

Hi,please add the Dojo MenuBar widget. https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/MenuBar.html
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions

Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions. Example:red string = "red";setColor(field, red);... function setColor(field formField, color string) set field color;end
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration