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EGL Language

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RUI: Block user interface while web service call is pending

Lock user interface while Rich UI application one or more web service calls pending.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Automatic functional test in EGL

when we coding using EGL in RBD, there are no a unit test framework like Junit. But the unit test is important and we expect RBD can automatic generate the test code like Junit framework. this topic have been discussed in this community(http://www...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Availability of EGL Grammar

RBDe itself does not come with any feature to automate static code analysis for EGL, which is an extremely important feature. At a minimum, EGL grammar can be made available for customers, whereby they can explore options to use it with open sourc...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Modify the default CSS files for RUI

in the CSS file (basic.css) that is being created by default under the RUI project (com.ibm.egl.rui), for some reason, It specifies the margin-right: 18px for the class EglRuiDataGridHeaderLabel .EglRuiDataGridHeaderLabel { overflow: hidden; margi...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

To be able to Catch IMS message switch errors as EGL exceptoin

During IMS transfer to transaction statements a return code from IMS of A4: Security violation detected during processing of either an AUTH call, a CHNG call, or an ISRT on a conversational response.can be issued.This is a valid IMS usage, but EGL...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

SunRI1.2 implementation jar is not picked up by WAS 8.5 Classpath Container

com.ibm.ws.jsf.RI1_2.jar is not picked up by WAS 8.5 Classpath Container automatically in RBD9. Workaround is to add this JAR in applications class path (within WEB-INF/lib) which i don't feel is correct.
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

JSF message components & EGL sysLib.setError()

The JSF Tag Attributes include errorClass,errorStyle,fatalClass,fatalStyle,infoClass,infoStyle,warnClass,warnStyle that can be associated with h:messages. EGL write to FacesMessage using sysLib.setError(). This method should be enhance to provide ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Add support for single row select for static SQL in EGL generated java code

This RFE is related to RFE 15634. After this RFE is realized, there would be possibile to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding. Than we would like to have function "single row select" implemented. With this solution we can improve se...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Exception Handling with 8.5.1 RBD

Need to add this property by default with RBD version's In RBD 8.5( and within updated v8.0.1.x versions) a new runtime property egl.service.rest.exception.debug was introduced for security reasons: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rbdhelp/v8r5m0...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Better way to copy records without having connections between them

As described in PMR#50724,211,788, there is a problem with passing array variables to functions. Even when these variables are copied to another record, there is still a link with the original array until this array is initialized. Thanks to Mark ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration