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EGL Language

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Problems when using EGL data item sizes > 300000

EGL is having problems when we are creating data item sizes > 300000.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

AnyHandler, AnyService, AnyInterface

We want to implement some generic frameworks and for this it is necessary to pass multiple RUIHandler and Service parts to a common set of functions. Currently there is no 'AnyHandler' or 'AnyService' type in the EGL language, which means that the...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

ORDER BY makes data service fail

We often generate services to retrieve SQL data from AS/400 using the Data Access Application wizard. The generated services contain several functions amongst which the function to retrieve a list of data which can be specified with the fromTables...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

"waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment

Request for the ability to have a "waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

COBOL-Generator - Reenablement Support for COBOL Compiler V2

Customer migrated from VisualAge Generator to EGL and want to use the existing COBOL Compiler for OS/390 and VM V2 (without UNICODE support). Prior to Version 7 of Rational Business Developer the use was possible. Customer would like to have a swi...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Edit data in table-format by using data perspective

For viewing the content of a table we have 2 options (general limitation specified in the preferences->data ?> output ?> limit number of rows retrieved. ) - In the Database Explorer view of the Data perspective, right-click on the table w...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

JDBC Fetch Size

The ability to influence the Oracle fetchsize. The fetchsize is the amount of logical records that are retrieved when calling Resultset::next() and kept in a buffer for each use of Resultset:next(), until it is empty and filled again. At the java ...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Prevent maximum open cursors exceeded

Make it possible to prevent receiving error ?ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded' at generation of the Java code (@ Build time) When writing a Get statement against Oracle (explicit SQL) sometimes the cursor isn't closed. This due to the abse...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

support for FacesContext in WASCE

EGL projects cannot run on WASCE.FacesContext not supported.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

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about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration