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User Interface (IDE)

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Rich UI Editor - Folding - option Collapse All is missing

RBD, Rich UI Editor, *.egl sourceRight click on left border in source editor tab (dark grey bar), Select option Folding, shows options [ExpandAll, Expand, Collapse] Please add option Collapse AllThis feature will add value for analysing/developing...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

Drag and Drop feature for services in RUI, just like in JSF – RBD 9.1

In JSF – RBD 9.1, there is an easy way to add services to the UI by just drag and drop. RBD 9.5 onward, JSF support is discontinued. RUI does not have an equivalent functionality. It would be much faster to develop applications if such a feature i...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Delivered

VSAM files access over TCP/IP [RTC 48137]

When we use RBD version 7.5.1.3 in debug mode, we can access CICS programs and DB2 connections over TCP/IP. But in order to access VSAM files we have to use DFM over SNA and our customers do not accept the idea of using SNA to access VSAM files wh...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 7 Delivered

Services - global way to set UID and PWD in debugger

(Services) Would like to have global way to set UID and PWD in debugger (similar to how remote calls are done) Probably depending on: Rich UI - Global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls (88774)
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Delivered

Alert Invalid Password

When we generated a EGL program we need a tcp/ip connection with hostname, port number, userid and password. These information are saved in the EGL Build Descriptor options or to userid/password in the EGL Preferences. When we talk about hostname ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

Rui: Create function on inline widget declaration

A very handy feature in RBD is to right-click and then click "Create function". This only works when widgets are declared separately: btn Button{text = "click me", onClick ::= btn_Click}; b Box{children = [btn]}; But it does not work if you create...
about 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

RBD VE - RFE - New widget should be initialized with empty layout data

See attached PDF for detailed description and a sample project.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Delivered

Problems with EGLAR files in the debugger

Debugging with eglar files the debugger should ignore programs and functions in eglar files.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Delivered

Problems with EGLAR files in the debugger

Debugging with eglar files the debugger prompts for which program to load if found more than once.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Delivered

Export Runtime Dependencies

We would like to have a way to export from the IDE (based on an EGL project's external JAR dependencies) the resources needed for our stand-alone Java runtime environment. An "Export" option under a project's Properties->Java Build Path would b...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

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