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Responsive EGL Datagrid component

Make RichUI Components/Widget ready for responsive design.
over 3 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...
over 3 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Rich UI - Global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls

Would like to have global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls.In other words, currently, we have to use serviceLib.setHTTPBasicAuthentication on each service call. Would like to set once for a session.All our services are in CICS, so UID a...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Record assignment in RUI of EGL

FCB(First Commercial Bank) need the function in RUI, when they maintain EGL record. They wish to using statement "move S200MSG_CWS to IRTSWF_SWS byname;", then record IRTSWF_SWS's value will be assign(when fieldName are same in both record).
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Empty DataGrid shows 10 empty records. We only want the header to show and no records.

When a DataGrid has no rows the DataGrid shows 10 empty rows. We would like the DataGrid to show no rows, but only the header. Additional information:- We use RBD 9.0.1- When te code in the below provided 'Use Case' is entered in a ruihandler the ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

CICS transactionID's as program annotations

It should be possible to specify the startTransactionID, restartTransactionID and returnTransaction as program annotations instead of specifying these in builddescriptors and having these tied to program naming standards. The software should use t...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Provide MVC form property for its current validity state

MVC Forms currently have an isValid() and validation() function, but invoking these functions also invoke the ? ?handleValidStateChange_<formName>() function. ? ?It is during ? ?handleValidStateChange_<formName> which can be used to ap...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

When importing a WSDL interface, set string maxlen from XSD settings

When importing a WSDL as EGL interface, set the maxLen property of string attributes according to the value in the XSD type, if available. Combined with RFE 39245, this removes manual actions to set the maximum length of string input elements when...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

RUI designer: additional replacement variables for digits and string length

I need replacement variables to use in the VE data templates that would give me the number of digits and decimals for number fields and max length for string fields. That information would come from the actual fields of the record being dragged on...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered