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EGL Language

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EGL does not support recursion in records

Currently, EGL doesn't support records with recursive datatypes, meaning that records that look something like record rec1 r rec1[ ];end are not possible in EGL. Since I've come across quite a few web services written in Java that return an object...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface"

We would like to have the possibility to use custom source definitions in combination with "Create EGL Client interface".This way we can make sure a new "EGL - Create EGL client interface" action is not moving records to other sourcefiles. In the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Comparing 2 nullable values that are both null returns false

We have 2 variables that are nullable (for example: nullable ints or nullable dates).If both variables are null, and we check them for equality, the result should be true, but it's false. Code example:a, b int?;a = null;b = null;if(a == b) writeSt...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Better charts

Hi,we need as soon as possible some better line, column and bar charts like this: http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/line/site_traffic/ http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/column/oil_r...
about 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

AA EGL RTL support children of a widget with RTL

This issue is kind of generic, It's regarding the RTL support, Unlike the HTML, the children of a widget with RTL orientation does NOT always inherit the orientation, most of it has its default LTR settings,that means, when we want to present a sc...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL Genrator targeting WAS Batch Enviroment

An option in the EGL generator for targeting the WAS Batch/ Extended Deployment Compute Grid as a runtime environment for Java-generated EGL programs
about 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Dojo MenuBar

Hi,please add the Dojo MenuBar widget. https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/MenuBar.html
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions

Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions. Example:red string = "red";setColor(field, red);... function setColor(field formField, color string) set field color;end
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

RBD EGL Debug listener to be launched from IDEs other than VAGEN

IBM developed and EGL Debug Listener with the request of Halkbank. We can do End to End debugging from VAGEN GUI to EGL in RBD and back to VAGEN GUI. We want to have this facility for other IDEs also
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

RBD 無法指定 EGL 代碼以外的 MQ TCP/IP 連接屬性,希望能由EGL Build Descriptor CallLink Elements定義MQ相關屬性

在原有VAGen MQ應用程式需要Linkage Options:mqic32.lkg來運行 mqic32.lkg內容:calllink applname=elaq* linktype=dynamic dllname=csomqc32 bitmode=32 parmform=oslink 由VAGen轉EGL時RBD無法於EGL Build Descriptor Call Link做設定,訪問MQ Server會失敗不認得需於程式新增MQEnvironment物件指定相關MQ TCP/IP...
over 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration