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EGL Language

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Implement event bubbling for EGL/RUI

Events are not bubbled when a Widget catches the event. For example, the onKeyUp function of a Widget catches an event. This event will never make it to the onKeyUp fucntion of a parent Widget. A much better solution would be to really implement e...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL build in function to sort arrays of primitive types

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 missed an EGL function to sort arrays of primitive types, like it does the frequently used RPG operation co...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL - Using MVS data set from USS

The Java programs using JZOS can access HFS or MVS data sets for printing or working with sequential files. EGL generated java program on USS can only use HFS datasets for printing using Printform or for sequential datasets. We need same functiona...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Map fields as function and program parameters

I would be nice if it was possible to parse map fields as in/out parameters to functions and programs.That would enable the programmer to write common functions and programs, setting the attributes of the map fields.
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Local record definitions

It would be nice if it was possible to define records locally within a program and even within a function. Then the programmer wouldn't have to think about making the record names unique when defining a record which is not meant to be used outside...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

JTA support including transactionTimeOut

EGL currently does not support JTA (Java Transaction API). We are using DB2 on iSeries which supports the setLockTimeOut API for iSeries XADataSource objects associated with JTA. See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Optimzing EGL pagination for large tables

EGL data table (UI) component supports in-memory pagination which requires all records to be fetched in an EGL array beforehand, and then paginates over that array. If a table has millions of records, all of them can not be fetched in one array an...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Cancel On Page Transition User Exit

Our JSF application architecture defines two types of pages: a) Main pages b) Pop-upsThe architecture requires that main-page bean state be saved in session across invocation of a pop-up, but not when transitioning to another main page. This canno...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Not under consideration

Lotus Domino Integration with EGL

This is for IBM i customers. We have recently had requests from several customers to provide some form of integration between EGL generated applications and Lotus Domino database applications. It may be acceptable to treat the application as a dat...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

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

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