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"waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment

Request for the ability to have a "waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

ORDER BY makes data service fail

We often generate services to retrieve SQL data from AS/400 using the Data Access Application wizard. The generated services contain several functions amongst which the function to retrieve a list of data which can be specified with the fromTables...
over 13 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.
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
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

JDBC Fetch Size

The ability to influence the Oracle fetchsize. The fetchsize is the amount of logical records that are retrieved when calling Resultset::next() and kept in a buffer for each use of Resultset:next(), until it is empty and filled again. At the java ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Retrieve user and password from HTTP header

We have an EGL service which calls several RPG programs. In order to run these RPG programs under the loggod on user we pass the user and password to the EGL service as parameters.We rather pass the user and password in the HTML header (using Serv...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

Support for enumerations in EGL

There's a need to be able to add enumerations in the EGL language so proper parameters can be defined in functions which forces the developer to pass predefined values.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

AnyHandler, AnyService, AnyInterface

We want to implement some generic frameworks and for this it is necessary to pass multiple RUIHandler and Service parts to a common set of functions. Currently there is no 'AnyHandler' or 'AnyService' type in the EGL language, which means that the...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

RBD EGL Rich UI need better DOJO linegraph support.

The default linegraph behavior provides little value. To do a linegraph as intended by the dojo the follow enhancements are requested - multiple lines on a single line graph. - ability to input x and y values not just y coord- legends and coloring...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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