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EGL Language

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"optimize build order" as an ANT-task

If one EGL-project depends on (references parts in) another project, you need to build the dependent project after the other project. In the workbench this can be achieved using the "optimize build order" menu option.When creating a workspace dyna...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Add WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile as an available server target runtime.

WebSphere 8.5 introduced the lightweight "Liberty" profile for use by developers. RBD 8.5 supports WAS 8.5, but the Liberty profile is not available as a deployment target in RBD.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

EGL default value for nullable fields

n RDB when I generate the structure for an SQLRecord from a database table with the utility "SQL Record -> Retrieve SQL" if a field is nullable is imported with the clause: "isSqlNullable = yes". Instead of this declaration which involves the d...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Read and write CSV files in other encoding

We would like to have a encoding property to associate with a CSV file. Now, a CSV file is assumed to have the system encoding, both for reading and writing.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

ORDER BY makes data service fail

We often generate services to retrieve SQL data from AS/400 using the Data Access Application wizard. The generated services contain several functions amongst which the function to retrieve a list of data which can be specified with the fromTables...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Disable JavaScript Debug Generation

Would like to have an option in EGLCMD to to turn this off the debug generation when using the headless build. We also suggest that IBM consider chaining the debug behavior and instead of simply generating all the JS Debug parts, only generate it ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

FileUpload dialog

EGL is designed for people not knowing HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, JSF etc. We would like to have a dialog to upload files to the server and receive them as a blob. The only (non-working) examples on the EGL-web are in JSP, JSF etc. Abacadabra to...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Support more CICS command in EGL

Now EGL can generate some CICS commands, but not all CICS commands are supported. Good to have more CICS commands supported in EGL. The support could be like below: execute #CICS{ LOAD PROGRAM("BA2DNYTB") ENTRY(:TABL) };
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Support "get next" for DB2 Multiple ROW FETCH in COBOLGen

Support below scenario for DB2 multiple fetch. employees employeeRecordEGLDB2[0]{staticRowSetSize = 10};//this generates static array with len=10 in cobol try Open abc with #sql{ select eID, uName, PASSWORD, fName, lName, office, sex, EMai...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

EGL - GET DIAGNOSTICS statement

We want support in EGL for the GET DIAGNOSTICS statement. EGL has the basic ROWSET processing, but doesn'n implement the GET DIAGNOSTICS support.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

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