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Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to debug EGL web services running on WAS

Currently it is not possible to debug an EGL web service which is running on a WAS. The only possible way to debug such a service is to write a (small) client which calls that service anddebug it that way. In that way you are however not testing t...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for RBD to RAM disk

Client need to improve the project build performance in RBD, so they have following suggestion to improve performance: 1.To change temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for Rational Business Developer tool (ver. 9.6, 9.5.1, 9.5) for the RAM disk 2....
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Allow copy/paste from/into Java TextForm Field

After downsize from EGL genned COBOL/CICS and frontend TextForm 3270 to EGL genned Java/Windows and frontend TextForm 3270, the customer lost the copy / paste functionality to TextForm field.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Allow "Task tags" to be used in the EGL editors

Add the ability to enter "Task tag" comments in the EGL Rich UI and EGL editor. A task tag acts like a bookmark in the code, allowing you to return to a specific location in your code to complete some work. All task tags show up in the "Tasks" vie...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Planned for future release

Support for facelets

Facelets are the official view technology for JSF 2.0. Facelets are already supported in the "sibling product" Rational Application Developer 8, but the newest JSF standard supported in Rational Business Developer is JSF 1.2.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Enable multiple EGL default target system build descriptors

In the EGL file Properties, in the group EGL Default Build Descriptors, allow multiple build descriptors in the settings Target system build descriptors, when selecting Specify default build descriptor values for this resource.
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Planned for future release

Display called programs in debug

A window/view to display all called programs, functions during a debug session including programs loaded from eglar files.The function should be interactive, i.e. show progress as the debug session is running.The requested option is implementing t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

As a EGL RUI designer I want to resize forms by mouse drag

In order to increase usability of EGL RUI designer it is desirable to be able to change the size of fields and forms on the canvas by dragging eh edge of the field with the mouse. Currently, field size can only be controlled via field properties.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 6 Not under consideration

Connecting to PostgreSQL-database

Currently, RBD only supports database connections to DB2, Derby, Informix, Oracle and SQL Server. Other database providers (which also have JDBC-drivers) are not supported. We want to be able to connect to a PostgreSQL-database.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

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