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EGL Language

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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

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.
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Invoking Stored Procedures Returning Multiple Resultsets

Currently EGL code can not call a stored procedure (SP) which returns multiple result sets. This is a major limitation as Enterprise Modernization team has no control over existing stored procedures of an enterprise application. They need to simpl...
about 16 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 - ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 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.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Re-generation of EGL programs

It would be very nice if the EGL programmer could right-click on an item in the "EGL Generation Results" window and choose "Re-generate Item". It would also be nice if the EGL programmer could right-click in the "EGL Generation Results" window and...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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