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Need direct access to underlying data in DataGrid.

The standard way to build a grid is fine but to control a grid that is already built sometimes requires access to the components used in the implementation of the DataGrid widget. When the DataGrid was still a tech preview we could access the "gri...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Support DojoComboBox validation under MVC

DojoComboBox does not currently support validation under the common model in place using EGL's MVC infrastructure. We would like to be able to include DojoComboBox components on our forms and use MVC validation on their contents.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Provide capability to supply x-axis labels on DojoBarChart

Currently, only y-axis values can be represented on a Dojo bar chart. (This is not a limitation of Dojo but a limitation of the EGL wrapper.) We would like to be able to label bars displayed by the DojoBarChart widget on the x axis. In the current...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Problems when using EGL data item sizes > 300000

EGL is having problems when we are creating data item sizes > 300000.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

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

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

Option to check, return the value of all field attributes

We would like the enhancement where there is a mechanism within RBD/EGL to check, return the value of a green screen's field attributes.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL regular expressions should support java.util.regex syntax

The syntax for regular expressions in RBD is somewhat limited compared to possibilities in java. Expressions written for java cannot be used in EGL.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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