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EGL Language

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Fast access to global constants in COBOL

The only way we know to define global constants in EGL is by defining public, i.e. non-private, consts in a library. We are concerned that this does not perform well in COBOL since constants defined in EGL libraries are translated to a COBOL exter...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Invoking J2EELib from EGL Libraries

Currently J2EELIB functions can not be issued from EGL libraries running in J2EE environments. When using layered approach for implementing complex enterprise applications using EGL, each layer is implemented in the form of EGL libraries (e.g. DAO...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

RUI Gateway Single JSP and Enhanced UI Record

Need an enhanced API for VGDataElement and VGUIRecordBean. Need to be able to enumerate the names of the available fields. Need to be able to get the type of each field (VGDataElement))
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Support result sets from stored procedures in EGL get array statements.[32586]

EGL supports several ways of processing the result sets returned by a SQL select statement: Open / get next loop Open / foreach loop Get array Stored procedure calls can also return result sets. These result sets can currently be processed using t...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Caching in the EGL Debugger for searchlist EGL Progs

1.1 Situation while debugging an EGL programAssume these preferences (EGL ? Debug ? Debug Behaviour Mapping ? Called Program): Mapping mode = ?source?Call target = * When a call statement is encountered during debug, it is matched against the debu...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Avoid copying arguments [RTC 32246]

Although the semantics of parameter passing in called programs is call-by-reference, the argument is copied in order to enable implicit type conversion. However, KBC applications always calls programs with an argument whose type is identical to th...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Explanory error message in debug when called prog is not found

1.1 Current situation ----------------------We're debugging our EGL Programs using the STOREDPROCEDURE linkage option for programs that are available on z/OS.When a program is called remotely, but the load is not found the following error occurs: ...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered