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EGL Language

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Generic types and parameters of type any

Parameters of type "any" should have methods returning the type, basic type, length and decimals. Example:x num(10,2);foo(x);.. function foo(p any) writeStdOut(p.type()); writeStdOut(p.basicType()); writeStdOut(p.length()); writeStdOut(p.decimals(...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Add support for WAS 9.0

Was 9.9 GA was June 2016 but is not yet available.
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

5 missing EGL types for numeric

We are missing for following COBOL types, corresponding EGL types.Because of these missing types, we suffer performance loss in the generated COBOL. COBOL Types EGL typesPIC 9(3) National ?PIC S9(3)V9(2) National SIGN LEADING SEPARATE ?PIC S9(3)V9...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Calling a webservice from java generated EGL on WAS throws webservice runtime exception

Calling a webservice from java generated EGL on WAS throws webservice runtime exception
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Passing the output parameters to invoke a service function

All the output parameters of an interface function have to be passed asdummy input parameters when invoking the service if the function has more than 1 output parameter. The function as of the interface looks likefunction testFn(inParm int in, out...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

webservice enableGeneration

webservice enableGeneration property
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

RTL support for RUI widgets

The alignment property of the data grid widget is not working,It always keeps the data left aligned. In the DataGrid widget code (com.ibm.egl.rui.4.3.1/EGLSource/com.ibm.egl.rui.widgets/DataGrid.egl) at line 280columnClass[column] = "EglRuiDataGri...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 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...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

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