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EGL Language

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5 missing EGL types for numeric

We are missing for following COBOL types, corresponding EGL types.Because of these missing types, we suffer performance loss in the generated COBOL. COBOL Types EGL typesPIC 9(3) National ?PIC S9(3)V9(2) National SIGN LEADING SEPARATE ?PIC S9(3)V9...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Enhance EGL Generation possibilities

1. Enhance the ?generate with wizard? so that it can be initialized with the settings of a previous generation (XMLfile that currently can only be used as input for EGLSDK)2. Allow multiple build descriptors to be linked with 1 program3. Allow a s...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Local record definitions

It would be nice if it was possible to define records locally within a program and even within a function. Then the programmer wouldn't have to think about making the record names unique when defining a record which is not meant to be used outside...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Map fields as function and program parameters

I would be nice if it was possible to parse map fields as in/out parameters to functions and programs.That would enable the programmer to write common functions and programs, setting the attributes of the map fields.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

JTA support including transactionTimeOut

EGL currently does not support JTA (Java Transaction API). We are using DB2 on iSeries which supports the setLockTimeOut API for iSeries XADataSource objects associated with JTA. See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Values stored by EGL in request / session / application should be accessible using Java

Values stored in request, session, application scope by EGL handler should be accessible using Java code. Currently this is not possible. Web applications always use request, session etc to store state-data for a user. With the fact that EGL relie...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Availability of EGL Grammar

RBDe itself does not come with any feature to automate static code analysis for EGL, which is an extremely important feature. At a minimum, EGL grammar can be made available for customers, whereby they can explore options to use it with open sourc...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

CheckStyle support for EGL in RBD

EGL should support some static code analysis tool like CheckStyle, which is already available as a plugin to Eclipse. This will help large projects to automate quality checks for ensuring coding conventions and best practice compliance.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

JNDI Lookup Facility

EGL in its current form does not expose APIs for all J2EE standards. Most of the J2EE application requirements mandate the use of some basic J2EE standards like JNDI lookup. JNDI lookup allows to pick up some values / objects from a naming directo...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Availability of all Servlet APIs in J2EELib

J2EELib provides functions for only few APIs from HTTP Servlet specification classes (e.g. Request, Response, Session etc). As EGL uses JSF runtime in UI layer, often the JSF handler needs more APIs from HTTP servlet specification to fulfill some ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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