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RBD EGL Rich UI PasswordTextField placeholder

The default properties into RUI widget PasswordTextField do not allow you to set the placeholder or the alternative widget in Dojo DojoTextField which instead has the placeholder property does not allow you to correctly set the input type = passwo...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Add WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile as an available server target runtime.

WebSphere 8.5 introduced the lightweight "Liberty" profile for use by developers. RBD 8.5 supports WAS 8.5, but the Liberty profile is not available as a deployment target in RBD.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

WSDL client interface on nillable fields can't be compared to null

When I create a client interface from a web service wsdl files for a record which contains nillable fields, the record field can not be compared to null. It always defaults to the current date. The client interface record has the following paramet...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered

Array initialization with a variable size

Initialize any array directly using a numeric variable as the new sizethrows syntax error.iex int = 2;myArr myRec[x];OrmyArr = new myRec[x];Or evenmyArr = new myRec[myotherArr.getSize()];all the 3 bold statements are not available in the compilati...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Cordova support enhancements

We are quite happy with the dojo mobile widgets en the latest native Cordova support in RBD 9.5.0.Although we would like the dojox.mobile.TextBox and the dojox.mobile.RadioButton to be added to the Dojo mobile widgets project.Second we would like ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Implement eze functions i debug/java

Request for eze functions "getcallingprogram", "getcurrentfunction", "getcurrentline" and "getcallstack" implemented in debug/java
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Enable EGL datagrid to show scrollbar and header at same time

Because our customer's screen limitation (800x600), so they need EGL datagrid show scrollbar and header at same time.
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

FileUpload dialog

EGL is designed for people not knowing HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, JSF etc. We would like to have a dialog to upload files to the server and receive them as a blob. The only (non-working) examples on the EGL-web are in JSP, JSF etc. Abacadabra to...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Ability to add META to top of generated HTML

the ability to add META to the generated HTML code. The following example would turn off caching. <head><meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" /><meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" /><meta http-equiv="Cache-Co...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Debugger - new features (watchpoints, conditional breakpoints, variable tracking)

I suggest the following enhancements to the debugger. All of them are nice, common features found in other debuggers. 1) Display variable content.2) Watch window.3) Conditional break points.4) Variable tracking.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 8 Delivered

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