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(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmatically.

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmaticallyThen be able to manipulate the widgetCurrent solution - added attribute and are "looking" for it, but wondered/wanted easier way
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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

RBD EGL Rich UI need better DOJO linegraph support.

The default linegraph behavior provides little value. To do a linegraph as intended by the dojo the follow enhancements are requested - multiple lines on a single line graph. - ability to input x and y values not just y coord- legends and coloring...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Format patterns must be supported by TUI forms

Format patterns are not supported by TUI forms.They should be supported and work like formatNumber and formatDate.
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

ITS

Customer's EGL project will translate EGL program into Java program running on WAS server and COBOL program running on CICS. If the Java program and COBOL program have the different parmForm type (COMMPTR and CHANNEL), in some special cases, it wi...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Callback mechanism when datagrid detects a size of 0 when rendering children which have data

When a webservice call is executed, meanwhile the widget which did the action can be closed/changed by another widget (datagrid to detail and back for example) or can be made unvisible (when using a tab mechanism for example). When the webservice ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Sonarqube analyzer for EGL

We want to analyze quality of EGL code.There is already a tool which name is Software Analyzer in RBD.We want to analyze EGL code with Sonarqube besides Software Analyzer.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

add Project name, Package name and your versions on COBOL and JAVA Source

when the COBOL and JAVA is generated from the EGL, add comment in the source of the project, package, version and date/time of the created of the EGL source location of the program and all function.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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