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EGL Language

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Copyless call-by-value [RTC 32245]

Copyless call-by-valueIn the current implementation, call-by-value allocates memory for function parameters and call-by-reference does not. Call-by-value must be used if the caller must be sure that the callee does not modify the argument. Moreove...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

EGL - Multi-row Insert and Fetch of SQL rows

DB2 V9 offers the capability of RowSet positioning. Essentially for performance reasons it would be nice to include this functionnality in EGL and not having to do develop an externaly defined COBOL program.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Delivered

Explanory error message in debug when called prog is not found

1.1 Current situation ----------------------We're debugging our EGL Programs using the STOREDPROCEDURE linkage option for programs that are available on z/OS.When a program is called remotely, but the load is not found the following error occurs: ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Caching in the EGL Debugger for searchlist EGL Progs

1.1 Situation while debugging an EGL programAssume these preferences (EGL ? Debug ? Debug Behaviour Mapping ? Called Program): Mapping mode = ?source?Call target = * When a call statement is encountered during debug, it is matched against the debu...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Debugger - new features (watchpoints, conditional breakpoints, variable tracking)

I suggest the following enhancements to the debugger. All of them are nice, common features found in other debuggers. 1) Display variable content.2) Watch window.3) Conditional break points.4) Variable tracking.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 8 Delivered

Invoking J2EELib from EGL Libraries

Currently J2EELIB functions can not be issued from EGL libraries running in J2EE environments. When using layered approach for implementing complex enterprise applications using EGL, each layer is implemented in the form of EGL libraries (e.g. DAO...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

EGL debugger: improvement for variable content tracking

Version 7.0.1 adds a "find facility" to the variables view in debug mode. But retrieving the content of a variable still is not comfortable for the developer.He still needs the fully qualified variable name to get the desired information. Programs...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

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