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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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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 /...)
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Planned for future release

Allow "Task tags" to be used in the EGL editors

Add the ability to enter "Task tag" comments in the EGL Rich UI and EGL editor. A task tag acts like a bookmark in the code, allowing you to return to a specific location in your code to complete some work. All task tags show up in the "Tasks" vie...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 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.
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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

Provide capability to supply x-axis labels on DojoBarChart

Currently, only y-axis values can be represented on a Dojo bar chart. (This is not a limitation of Dojo but a limitation of the EGL wrapper.) We would like to be able to label bars displayed by the DojoBarChart widget on the x axis. In the current...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

Generated HTML with EGLDoc Plugin

Hi,We want to standardize all egl programs. In some parts such as programs, libraries, functions, records, items, it is essential to use "Description = #doc{ }" property.From this property we want to generate HTML such as Javadoc plugin. Thank you...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 3 Planned for future release

Memory de-allocation of Library Function variables before leaving the function

We would like to see the automatic de-allocate of the local Library Function Variables before leaving the Function. This would reduce the memory consumption of the CICS Transaction.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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