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IBM Rational Business Developer

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Passphrase support for Rational Business Developer

Passphrase to generate the EGL source to COBOL is not supported using RBD 9.6
almost 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

Responsive EGL Datagrid component

Make RichUI Components/Widget ready for responsive design.
about 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Delivered

Option to work with header fields in a WSDL

We would like that1. When generating an interface (Create EGL Client Interface) from a WSDL with headers, these header records are generated too. 2. When building our own services in RBD, we want a way to add header records that way that when WSDL...
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

horizontal and vertical span support in BSGridlayout

In EGL rich UI you can use the Gridlayout widget for creating tables. For complex layouts you can change the horizontal and/or vertical span. In RBD 9.6 the Bootstrap widget set was added. Most of the "old" Rich UI widgets can simply be replaced b...
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Drag and Drop feature for services in RUI, just like in JSF – RBD 9.1

In JSF – RBD 9.1, there is an easy way to add services to the UI by just drag and drop. RBD 9.5 onward, JSF support is discontinued. RUI does not have an equivalent functionality. It would be much faster to develop applications if such a feature i...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Delivered

Overload resolution bug

When a library has multiple functions with the same name, and the same number of parameters (but of different types), the compiler sometimes generates code that calls the wrong function, if one of the parameter values is null.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Bug: nullable decimal field not null when returned from service to Rich UI

We have a service that returns a record where one of the fields is a nullable decimal. We have a Rich UI application that calls this service via SOAP.If we set the field value to null in the service function (we confirmed that it is null before re...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Need For New Option for RBD SQL Retrieve

Hello, We use RBD tool. In this tool, when we retrieve rows from DB2 table with SQL Retrieve module, we want to change table names to lowercase. There are three option over there but need for new option.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

RBD EGL Rich UI PasswordTextField placeholder

The default properties into RUI widget PasswordTextField do not allow you to set the placeholder or the alternative widget in Dojo DojoTextField which instead has the placeholder property does not allow you to correctly set the input type = passwo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Array initialization with a variable size

Initialize any array directly using a numeric variable as the new sizethrows syntax error.iex int = 2;myArr myRec[x];OrmyArr = new myRec[x];Or evenmyArr = new myRec[myotherArr.getSize()];all the 3 bold statements are not available in the compilati...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered