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JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
about 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

EGLSDK to generate service configuration files in the same way as EGLCMD and Ant scripts

This was previously raise as Case number TS014714157, where it was suggested to raise it as an RFE, for inclusion in the next release. EGLSDK does not generate essential configuration files, needed to call EGL services.1. generate -generateFile Xx...
about 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

Add dataset type with the BKUPINFO report.

Add dataset type beside the dataset within the BKUPINFO report. EX:: SEARCH CRITERIA: DATASET => ** DATE FROM => *-1 DATE TO => * TYPE => ACDFGHIMNORSTUVWZ 1PAGE 1 CBTI - DATASET LIST DATASET NAME EVENT DATE TIME TYPE ------...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TABR - Capture retention date for tape backups

In the TABR reporting it dose not report on how long the backups will exists. It will be great to have a feature that captures the retention period for tape datasets to allow the user to understand how long the backup will be retained.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Migrated prepare syntax generates expensive loops [RTC 40352]

Performance enhancement to generated Java to the effect that the implicit SQL statements used to implement EGL I/O statements associated with SQL records should be prepared no more often than is necessary. For implicit delete or replace of the cur...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 7 Not under consideration

An option to create empty SAMDS output files (RBD 9.11 / Generation for VSE)

EGL doesn't provide a method to create empty output files, whereas in native Cobol, output file is created within the open statement. In a mixed environment (EGL, native Cobol, CA Easytrieve) we have, this shortage in EGL causes extra logic to be ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Requesting reporting feature to show what datasets are on what DASD Volumes

AB&R does not report on what dataset is on what DASD volume. This is an important time-saver that our current product, DR Manager, provides.
over 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Not under consideration