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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.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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...
about 13 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...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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 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...
almost 14 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.
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...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration