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EGL Language

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remove 65535-limit for arrays according to java method size limitation

Hello,I've inserted the following problem as pmr71243 and was asked by my contact Mark, to insert a rfe. Here the problem description and some information out of pmr71243: I can't find any information about a limitation for the dimension of arrays...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Add SysLib.setProperty functionality in EGL language

As discussed with Jing Qian (IBM) and development we like to add a function to the SysLib library to be able to modify system properties on runtime Syslib.setProperty(propertyName, propertyValue).
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Allow SET INITIAL for subrecords

If a field in a structured record is itself a structured record, a SET INITIAL for it is rejected by the EGL parser, even though the purport of such a statement is perfectly clear. Please allow this construct, also for record variables that are ar...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

extend scope for resident data tables to Java VM

Dear Sir or Madam,We from PKS company, partner of IBM, are developing RBD extensions for migration of RPG/Cobol programs to EGL. Thereby we are missing the possibility to make data tables in Java resident across multiple users at one server like i...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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...
about 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...
almost 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...
about 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...
almost 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...
almost 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)
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

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