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EGL Language

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Manipulate element names in wsdl generation [RTC 46269]

We are creating services where we define the request and response messages as basicrecords. In those records we use arrays, and when this is generated to a wsdl the array types are named ...Array. For example : People Person[] will be defined as P...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

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

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...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Unnecessary complex record part names in service interface parts

The EGL service wizard now creates complex names for nested record parts in the interface part of the service, while the service itself uses plain names.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 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...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Segmented flag must be honored by Web Transactions

The converse statement currently releases all resources such as open cursors, etc... This is a serious problem as it breaks the semantics of ADABAS/Natural applications that are migrated to EGL. This is believed to be a very easy thing to honor - ...
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)
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Support arbitrary expressions for array initial length declarations

KBC requests that arbitrary positive integer expressions are supported for array initial length declarations, not just literals. It should be possible to write the following code for example, list dnt_map[in0s03_R_47.ipt_Zn.usr_Data.dnm_Tbl_Sze_Cr...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Add support for stateless/stateful properties to EGL webservice wizard (RTC 24781)

Add support for stateful/stateless properties in the EGL WebServices wizards.At the moment the wizard only supports stateful for REST services. If I specify not stateful, it uses the outdated default call interface that requires QEGL on IBM i and ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

No generation of java classes from referenced projects in the refering project.

Customer Published Description to be provided.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration