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Request to enhance error message for locale not supported during Informix extraction

When trying to extract database information to migrate from Informix i4GL to EGL, An error is raised when an incorrect locale is used: Locale not supported. It would be good to have an indication of what locale is supported. Error message seems to...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

stop migrator from removing blank constant fields

Hi,Some of the developers have requested if it is possible to say put in an option to stop the VisualAge Generator (VisGen) to EGL migrator from removing blank constant fields from the 3270 screen when converting from VisGen to EGL.Thanks
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

sdango test rfe test1

This is a test.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Enhance EGL runtime error reporting with symbolic dump of the EGL call stack and visible EGL variables

When the EGL RunUnit ends because of an Exception, a short, uninformative and often incorrect error message is printed. For example: EGL0150E An error occurred calling the yyyy program. Error: java.lang.NullPointerExceptionEGL0002I The error occur...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

DB connection properties are retained within multiple service calls

We have a RUI application where we have been trying to implement a dynamic login to authenticate our users to implement specific data access statements within the application from iSeries DB2 Datasource and in turn from user profiles contained wit...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

Create new runtime module returning microseconds when invoking dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp()

Currently the dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp() function returns a timestamp in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:FFFFFF. Unfortunately the fraction part does not return microseconds even that the format indicates this. Instead only milliseconds is retu...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

Improve EGL debugger tracing and variable values

We observed some new output when running the EGL debugger within updated RBD v7.5.1.5 after activating additional tracing output (an option advised previously by the RBD lab we always use) that did not happen in prior RBD versions ieCreate a "runu...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

equalize the behavior between ?transfer to transaction? and ?transfer to program? statement

We cannot use rununit.properties because we need different files per user. So we are trying to write a userdefined rununit in the Java start program for each user (userBB.properties) and each session. Each user has his own user defined printer fil...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

Merge webServices client bindings generated by EGL with existing ones

Request to merge webServices client bindings generated by EGL with existing ones.This helps for example to keep a configured JSSE repertoire for web services over SSL on WAS 6.0.
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Top Level Function (TLF) source code needs to be compiled with the containers (program/handler/library) that invoke them

"Top Level Function (TLF) source code needs to be compiled with the containers (program/handler/library) that invoke them. This is because, TLFs can contain references to global data in the container. When they are compiled standalone, the compile...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration