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Option to generate a client interface from a REST OPEN API JSON file

it's very usefull to generate the client interface from a SOAP WSDL file. But now EGL also supports REST OPEN API, and generates these REST OPEN API JSON files, which is great.But the other way around this isn't possible. We would like to see that...
8 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Option to generate REST Open API Service JSON file without REST RPC lines

We want to create a OPEN API REST Service project without REST RPC. At this moment when a JSON file is created there are also REST RPC lines in it.As a result of that Postman uses this RST RPC Endpoint.
8 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

Have EGL support SSO using Kerberos

We'd like to use EGL in a Single Sign On environment as follows:- User logs on to Windows (Active Directory)- User opens our EGL application in a browser (Firefox)- EGL application calls EGL program call service- EGL proxy (running on Linux/WAS) r...
over 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.) In EGL un...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

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

Rational Business Developer dependency analyze Tool

Client has large EGL project need to analyze its dependency, the need RBD to add a tool to read RBD temp file like *dg.
about 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Debug EGL code invoked from any language

It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 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)
almost 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

I need to be able to specify: "Run this step only if all previous step gave cond code less than 5"

“EGL Generation Guide, Version 7 Release 5.1. Chapter "Overview of COBOL generation", "Modifying EGL build scripts for z/OS", "EXEC statement" shows, that COND with no stepname is allowed. And I really need to be able to specify: "Run this step on...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

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