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EGL Language

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Add two system variables to know the program and function names

Would be helpful if we had the EGL language system variable to get the program name and function name to which the code is currently running. Name exemple: sysVar.isProgram and sysVar.isFunction.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Add option to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding

Add option to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding Description: The customer requires an option to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding. The reasons are: - Security issue: we use application authorization based on packa...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Missing datatypes

We would like to introduce the following datatypes in EGL. Problem 5 missing EGL types Overview We are missing for following COBOL types, corresponding EGL types. COBOL Types EGL typesPIC 9(3) National ?PIC S9(3)V9(2) National SIGN LEADING SEPARAT...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL problem with DB2 Warnings

There's a problem with DB2 Warnings in EGL, because they're been treated like errors, not like warnings. It's a little difficult to reproduce the problem because i haven't been able to get a DB2 warning on purpose, but we've got this problem twice...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Allow more properties to be set on the DojoDateTextBox

1) The date displayed in a DojoDateTextBox is always aligned to the left. It would be useful to expose an alignment property so that this could be changed at design time 2) As of RBD 8.0.1.2 a "down arrow" is displayed to the right of the date tha...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Support property "closeable" and event "onclose" for DojoDialog

The EGL Rich UI DojoDialog widget used to support the closeable property and the onclose event. These elements were removed by IBM at some point from the EGL DojoDialog wrapper.These are fundamental elements of a dialog dialog box, still fully sup...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Allow build descriptors to be specified as annotations

When working with Rich UI applications in the RBD tooling today it is often necessary to set properties at a package or part level indicating whether to use a Java or a JavaScript build descriptor during generation. For example, Rich UI handlers n...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

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