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EGL Language

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COBOL-Generator - Reenablement Support for COBOL Compiler V2

Customer migrated from VisualAge Generator to EGL and want to use the existing COBOL Compiler for OS/390 and VM V2 (without UNICODE support). Prior to Version 7 of Rational Business Developer the use was possible. Customer would like to have a swi...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Edit data in table-format by using data perspective

For viewing the content of a table we have 2 options (general limitation specified in the preferences->data ?> output ?> limit number of rows retrieved. ) - In the Database Explorer view of the Data perspective, right-click on the table w...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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

Prevent maximum open cursors exceeded

Make it possible to prevent receiving error ?ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded' at generation of the Java code (@ Build time) When writing a Get statement against Oracle (explicit SQL) sometimes the cursor isn't closed. This due to the abse...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

support for FacesContext in WASCE

EGL projects cannot run on WASCE.FacesContext not supported.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

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

remove 65535-limit for arrays according to java method size limitation

Hello,I've inserted the following problem as pmr71243 and was asked by my contact Mark, to insert a rfe. Here the problem description and some information out of pmr71243: I can't find any information about a limitation for the dimension of arrays...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Add SysLib.setProperty functionality in EGL language

As discussed with Jing Qian (IBM) and development we like to add a function to the SysLib library to be able to modify system properties on runtime Syslib.setProperty(propertyName, propertyValue).
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Allow SET INITIAL for subrecords

If a field in a structured record is itself a structured record, a SET INITIAL for it is rejected by the EGL parser, even though the purport of such a statement is perfectly clear. Please allow this construct, also for record variables that are ar...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

extend scope for resident data tables to Java VM

Dear Sir or Madam,We from PKS company, partner of IBM, are developing RBD extensions for migration of RPG/Cobol programs to EGL. Thereby we are missing the possibility to make data tables in Java resident across multiple users at one server like i...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration