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EGL Language

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DataItem: Add Cobol 88 like symbolic name for the validValues

Hi In order to get an equivalent syntax/semantic of the Cobol level 88 value, it wold be interesting to add a symbolic name to the valdValues of a DataItem. In Cobol, one can haveWORKING STORAGE.01 SEX PIC X(1) VALUE 'M'.88 MALE VALUE 'M'.88 FEMAL...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
almost 13 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...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Suppress empty entries returned by program call service

With the service wizard in EGL you can quickly create SOAP/RESTful services to do RPG program calls.However when the output parameter list of the RPG program contains repeating groups also all empty groups are sent in JSON format to the EGL GUI. I...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Improve the ELAD message more accurate in EGL V8

EGL V6 has more accurate ELAD message, such as V6 provides more details for SQL error in ELAD. But EGL V8 doesn't include as much details as EGL V6 in ELAD. Improve the EGL V8 ELAD message to EGL V6 level.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL - GET DIAGNOSTICS statement

We want support in EGL for the GET DIAGNOSTICS statement. EGL has the basic ROWSET processing, but doesn'n implement the GET DIAGNOSTICS support.
over 12 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.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL Data Wizard provide functionality for returning auto-generated column values on the AddXXXX functions.

I would like to see the EGL Data Wizard provide functionality for returning auto-generated column values on the AddXXXX functions. Presently, the wizard only allows you to mark a column as Read Only to prevent the generated code from trying to mai...
over 12 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...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 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...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

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