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EGL Language

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RBD data access generation extensibility

A client need to extend the features of the generated library. Need to do this for each library manually. We have 2 cases of extension points the client requested.1. Adding authorization check on each data access. Requires adding a call and argume...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

including unsigned numeric type to the egl primitive types

Hello EGL developer,we are an IBM partner and developing Migration Tools for migrating from RPG or Cobol to EGL. We are missing an EGL primitive type for unsigned numeric data like in Cobol. Of course it would be possible to define an own data ite...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

RBD data access generation control over generated names

Using data access generation wizard generates names using internal logic. A client want more control over the names. For the following reasons.1. Naming conventions to distinguish sql record types from basic types.2. Naming conventions to distingu...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL CICS Web Service (Provider mode) authentication handler

Enable EGL developer to invoke CICS Web Service (Provider Mode) to process the security token in the SOAP header of the service request. We've done a prototype implementation but I reckon this should come standard with EGL. If you want a copy of t...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

program property GenCobStaticArrays for preventing Cobol runtime overhead for dynamic arrays

Dear Sir or Madam,we from PKS Company are developing as partner of IBM tools for migration from RPG/Cobol to EGL. Thereby we encounter heavy performance problems, because all the originally static arrays will become dynamic arrays with huge runtim...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL support for one-way style webservices (RTC 28405)

We need RDB to support one-way style webservice (contain only input message, no output)
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Suppress empty entries returned by program call service

With the service wizard in EGL you can quickly create SOAP/RESTful services to do RPG program calls.However when the output parameter list of the RPG program contains repeating groups also all empty groups are sent in JSON format to the EGL GUI. I...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Suppress blanks in fields returned by program call services

When I call an EGL RESTful service which is implemented by an RPG program call, in the JSON response I get all fields padded with blanks. Is it possible to trim the fields in a webservices? When using VARYING parameters the PCML cannot be generate...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Resource association property text=YES to implement print output in text format rather then present Postscript

Environment: z/linux USS Product name: Rational Business Developer Program Version : 7.5.1.4z/OS 1.7 (Parallel Sysplex)RBD 7.5.1.4USS 1.7IBM JAVA 1.5.0 SR 11 We saw print format errors when printing from EGL to spool on USS. We tested functionalit...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

RBD data access generation for list specification is deficient

When a user is trying to use specification list it has the following deficiencies.1. Page control, the client cannot page back and forth the amount of a rows in a batch.2. Using the 'group by' clause on the select fails with SQL error.I had to ext...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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