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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 15 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
almost 17 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...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under 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...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 7 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...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

Need documentation on how to develop EGL Web application calling CICS programs using different languages

Each CICS server and associated DB2 database supports a single language (for example Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian)Only the EGL Web application retrieves data from these different sources.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

Request to enhance error message for locale not supported during Informix extraction

When trying to extract database information to migrate from Informix i4GL to EGL, An error is raised when an incorrect locale is used: Locale not supported. It would be good to have an indication of what locale is supported. Error message seems to...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

stop migrator from removing blank constant fields

Hi,Some of the developers have requested if it is possible to say put in an option to stop the VisualAge Generator (VisGen) to EGL migrator from removing blank constant fields from the 3270 screen when converting from VisGen to EGL.Thanks
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

sdango test rfe test1

This is a test.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 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...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration