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Ability to call unwrapped SOAP service

Document Literal unwrapped services are not supported by the EGL Client Interface wizard in RBD. See attached files for an example of a Document Literal unwrapped service.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Delivered

Add WebSphere Application Server 9 as an available server target runtime.

Add WebSphere Application Server 9 as an available server target runtime.
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Delivered

Consume REST services with non EGL applications in RBD

We have been trying to understand how to consume REST services with non EGL applications in RBD. To this end we raised a support case (PMR#81172,500,624) to establish how to achieve this and were informed that EGL REST services are only consumable...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 7 Delivered

Request to support Internet Explorer 9 for EGL Rich UI

Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is needed for EGL rich UI applications. It is not listed in RBD 8.0.1 at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27020053 Note that IE 9 is supported starting from Dojo 1.7(see http://dojotoolkit....
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Delivered

Need a complete Rich UI sample

A complete EGL Rich UI sample is missing with:- UI developed with EGL Rich UI- business logic developed with EGL (either Java or COBOL generated) The available samples are often with only one screen https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperwo...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

Change dialog box for SQL Validate credentials entry

RBD v8.5.1 ( and previous versions)Danske Bank have seen when implementing an SQL validate from the EGL editor on a SQL record or a SQL statement that when they have not saved their datasource credentials a popup dialog is displayed to enter the a...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

EGL Archive (EGLAR) file for dependent projects

We are developing a large-size web application (1600+ screens and 1600 tables) using EGL and RBDe. Due to layered nature of the application architecture and screen-specific requirements, the number of files in project is further multiplied. Effect...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

Ant task for creating EGL client interface

We have been trying to write an ant-script to automatically generate all of a web project's generated code (java classes, wsdl's, wsdd's etc.). This works fine.However, the next step is to create/generate the wsdl's EGL client interfaces by using ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Delivered

EGL debugger: watchpoints and qualified break points needed

Customers that have migrated from VisualAge Generator to EGL have badly missed watchpoints and qualified breakpoints when using the debugger. It seems as if there are none such advanced debugging facilities available in EGL's debugger. I have hear...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

Support for WSDL files with relative file path imports and includes

Support for WSDL files with relative file path imports and includes When files are copied from the EGLSource directory to the EGLbin directory, all file and folder names are lowercase. Imports and includes inside of a WSDL file are case sensitive ...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Delivered