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EGL Language

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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 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Cursor methods on TUI forms

The methods must return the name and index of the field which holds the cursor. Example:cursorField string = form.getCursor();case (cursorField) when "NAME" ... when "CITY" ... when "ADDRESS_LINES" cursorFieldIndex int = form.getCursorIndex(); cas...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Methods on TUI fields

More methods on TUI fields are needed. E.g. is field protected, is field unprotected.In other words: If you can say "set field xx" then you should also be able to say "if (field is xx)". Some of the attributes, e.g. colors, can be grouped and it w...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL TUI form shall behave like a container

It shall be possible to walk through the form fields such that a getFirst method returns a reference to the position wise first field, and a getNext method returns a reference to the next field, again position wise. A field reference, obtained usi...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Exit command for Library

Hi, We coding EGL on RBD 9.5.1. We use exit program command to exit from the program.When we use exit command inside the library, generation error is occuring.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Provide capability to supply x-axis labels on DojoBarChart

Currently, only y-axis values can be represented on a Dojo bar chart. (This is not a limitation of Dojo but a limitation of the EGL wrapper.) We would like to be able to label bars displayed by the DojoBarChart widget on the x axis. In the current...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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...
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

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...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Ability to translate runtime messages

Since we do our business in dutch-speaking areas, we'd like to translate the strings already contained in te product (runtime messages). For instance error messages, show to the user.
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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