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EGL Language

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Option to generate a client interface from a REST OPEN API JSON file

it's very usefull to generate the client interface from a SOAP WSDL file. But now EGL also supports REST OPEN API, and generates these REST OPEN API JSON files, which is great.But the other way around this isn't possible. We would like to see that...
about 2 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Under review

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

Dojo MenuBar

Hi,please add the Dojo MenuBar widget. https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/MenuBar.html
almost 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Printing capabilities in EGL

As a programming language, It needs to have printing capabilities to send files directly to the printer (Server side & Client side(RUI)) with some printing features, e.g: -Silent mode, in case of printing server side-prompt & don't prompt ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Memory de-allocation of Library Function variables before leaving the function

We would like to see the automatic de-allocate of the local Library Function Variables before leaving the Function. This would reduce the memory consumption of the CICS Transaction.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

Need a Symparm to reduce default (10x) initialization of Dynamic Array

When EGL is generated to COBOL a definition of Dynamic Array gets initialized by default 10 times. We would like to have a Symbolic Parameter (BuildDescriptor) to reduce this default initialization to less (ex. 1 time) to reduce memory consumption.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Support substrings with length zero in EGL

EGL supports the concept of substrings by means of the syntax: source[start:end], which returns the substring of source from position start to end, including both start and end position. Currently, when end is less than start, a run-time exception...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Retrieve user and password from HTTP header

We have an EGL service which calls several RPG programs. In order to run these RPG programs under the loggod on user we pass the user and password to the EGL service as parameters.We rather pass the user and password in the HTML header (using Serv...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

RBD EGL Rich UI need better DOJO linegraph support.

The default linegraph behavior provides little value. To do a linegraph as intended by the dojo the follow enhancements are requested - multiple lines on a single line graph. - ability to input x and y values not just y coord- legends and coloring...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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