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EGL Language

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System: Product RBD 8.5Actor: Program Developers Description: during debugging of EGL porgrams in the RBD Debug perspective, one cannot know what the program is doing in between map converses. It could be in DB2 CICS or program logic and the progr...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL and calling stored procedures with result set

EGL should support SP execution with multiple result set.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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 ...
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...
almost 13 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.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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...
about 13 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?"
over 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
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Rui MVC: make entire form input or read only at runtime

Add functionality to Rich UI MVC to make entire form input or read only at runtime.Also, allow programmer to specify at the FormField record that a given form field is a key field
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL RUI swapWidgets function

swapWidgets (w1 Widget, w2 Widget); A function that removes Widget w1 (from a box for example) and puts Widget w2 in its place.
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration