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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...
5 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

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)
over 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

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 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Planned for future release

sdango test rfe test1

This is a test.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Provide Ant task to export an SCA module in ZIP format, with all dependencies

In RAD, there's earExport for exporting EARs and warExport for exporting WARs, upon all of their dependencies. In WID 7.0, a common task would be to export an SCA module in ZIP format, in order to later pass it through serviceDeploy. The ZIP forma...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

MySQL DB support in RBD EGL

Provide support for using the MySQL Database in RBD EGL.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Planned for future release

Create new runtime module returning microseconds when invoking dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp()

Currently the dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp() function returns a timestamp in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:FFFFFF. Unfortunately the fraction part does not return microseconds even that the format indicates this. Instead only milliseconds is retu...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhance EGL runtime error reporting with symbolic dump of the EGL call stack and visible EGL variables

When the EGL RunUnit ends because of an Exception, a short, uninformative and often incorrect error message is printed. For example: EGL0150E An error occurred calling the yyyy program. Error: java.lang.NullPointerExceptionEGL0002I The error occur...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

DB connection properties are retained within multiple service calls

We have a RUI application where we have been trying to implement a dynamic login to authenticate our users to implement specific data access statements within the application from iSeries DB2 Datasource and in turn from user profiles contained wit...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

Improve EGL debugger tracing and variable values

We observed some new output when running the EGL debugger within updated RBD v7.5.1.5 after activating additional tracing output (an option advised previously by the RBD lab we always use) that did not happen in prior RBD versions ieCreate a "runu...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

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