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EGL Language

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Need support for adding tabs to DojoTabContainer without full refresh

The current implementation of DojoTabContainer is subject to a problem that exists with common browsers such as Firefox in that when a tab is added to the container on the fly EVERY tab refreshes its contents. IBM provided a work-around for this t...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Need support for 2D drawing, local browser storage, and animation

Technology previews for local browser storage, 2D drawing, and animation have all been made available for EGL in the past (via entries on the EGL community blog). All three of these previews are of great value to the community and extend the capab...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Supprt for move statement in RichUI javascript

As discussed with Jing Qian System test lead of IBM. "BUT we don't support the move statement in JavaScript! Move support for JavaScript sounds like a good RFE to include in 8013. So could you open an RFE for this?"
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Option to check, return the value of all field attributes

We would like the enhancement where there is a mechanism within RBD/EGL to check, return the value of a green screen's field attributes.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Support for global transactions over J2C connections

When involved in a global transaction calls to RPG/COBOL code do not participate in the global transaction resulting in errors.Cfr. PMR 31198,999,?788
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Have InfoBus communicate between iFrames

We are using the InfoBus frequently and without problems. However when we try to communicate between ruihandlers running in a different iFrame the InfoBus fails. We also like to have ruihandlers from multiple EARs to be communicating with eachothe...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

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...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

RUI: Block user interface while web service call is pending

Lock user interface while Rich UI application one or more web service calls pending.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration