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EGL Language

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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...
9 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.
9 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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

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

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

XML Processing Support

As XML is a defacto standard for distributed enterprise application communication, EGL should provide complete in-built support for XML processing. This includes parsing, validating, transforming, querying XML documents. Currently EGL only support...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

EGL does not support recursion in records

Currently, EGL doesn't support records with recursive datatypes, meaning that records that look something like record rec1 r rec1[ ];end are not possible in EGL. Since I've come across quite a few web services written in Java that return an object...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

RBD SQL Retrieve lowercase charachter problem

Hello, Depending on the RFE record that number is 121100, change letter to lowercase must made according to English character set.
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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