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skip re-generation of unchanged egl source code wiht SDK

EGLSDK always re-generate egl source code which are listed in the command file.Generating unchanged souce code is not necessary becauses it takes much more time.It's a good idea behaving like Java SDK.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

EGLSDK should implement incremental regeneration of IR files [35226]

Environment: Windows Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer Program Version : 7.5.1.3Description.The EGLSDK command line always regenerates the IR files regardless of whether any associated EGL files have been altered or not. In the RBD G...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Make labels from SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS for SQL data items visible in egl parts reference-data declarations

In VAG we were retrieving record definitions from SQL. We had to fill description column for each dataitem manually (that was stupid because we already had it in SQL).Contents was visible when expanding application structure. In EGL when program i...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

How to move unstructured records between arrays

Customer, is trying to move an array of records to another empty one, using the move command with the byname syntax. It's possible to do it only with a structured record.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Request to get the HTTP session ID

Customer would like to retrieve the HTTP session ID in EGL. It is possible to store or retrieve data from the session but not to get the ID of the session. It is possible to do it using a Java externalType but customer would like a pure EGL soluti...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

005f added after any underscore in the jsf variable names

When generating a jsf enabled jsp, if in the EGL jsf handler you add a variable having an underscore in it, and reference such variable from a jsf tag, let's say an input field, you'll see the reference with a 005f after the underscore. Meaning: m...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

EGL maps in Parts Reference should appear in different lines

In Rational Business Developer 7.5, EGL Parts Reference, Use Declarations, when there's an EGL mapset with several maps, they should appear as the tables, in the first line the mapset name, then we explode and see each map in different lines with ...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

EGL handler using an EGL library holds on to global EGL library and the global variables within that library

request to improve performance by handling differently libraries in JSF handlers.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

Issue warning when we skip generation of dead code

Request to improve EGL validation to verify that every positional get statements (get next, get previous, ...) are following an open statement.
over 15 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.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

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