IBM Z Software


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Z Software products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

EGL Language

Showing 140

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 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...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

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

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.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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?"
over 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.
over 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
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

Fast EGL global variable declaration

Let's say i'm in line number 654 of my EGL RUI handler source code, and i'm writing a function, and i realize that i need a new (global) variable of type INT that would solve the thing. I would like to be able to resolve it from there, from inside...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.