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EGL Language

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EGL debugger: improvement for variable content tracking

Version 7.0.1 adds a "find facility" to the variables view in debug mode. But retrieving the content of a variable still is not comfortable for the developer.He still needs the fully qualified variable name to get the desired information. Programs...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Soap v1.2 support

When consuming WSDL files in EGL, the RBD environment will complain if the soap protocol is 1.2. We would like to be able to consume soap 1.2 WSDL's into the EGL environment.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Nullable records in service requests

When a parent record contains a child record which is nullable, you have to explicitly set the child record to non-null (using the 'new' keyword). If you forget this and send this parent record to a service, the value in the child record do not ma...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered

Circumvent 64K limit in Java

It is possible to generate large EGL functions and records to Java without any errors.No validation errors (red x'es) will be displayed for large parts.But the Java compilation will fail if the byte code for a Java class exceeds 64Kbytes.As it is ...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Responsive EGL Datagrid component

Make RichUI Components/Widget ready for responsive design.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Delivered

Option to work with header fields in a WSDL

We would like that1. When generating an interface (Create EGL Client Interface) from a WSDL with headers, these header records are generated too. 2. When building our own services in RBD, we want a way to add header records that way that when WSDL...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

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 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

horizontal and vertical span support in BSGridlayout

In EGL rich UI you can use the Gridlayout widget for creating tables. For complex layouts you can change the horizontal and/or vertical span. In RBD 9.6 the Bootstrap widget set was added. Most of the "old" Rich UI widgets can simply be replaced b...
about 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Support for BLOBs / CLOBs in the EGL

We were asked by Alex Ge from IBM Cloud support team to raise this RFE. He provided a different PMR#30253,101,616 See PMR 06074 999 616 for his message. To provide support for BLOBs / CLOBs in the EGL generated COBOL for zSeries.Client has already...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

EGL - Multi-row Insert and Fetch of SQL rows

DB2 V9 offers the capability of RowSet positioning. Essentially for performance reasons it would be nice to include this functionnality in EGL and not having to do develop an externaly defined COBOL program.
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Delivered

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