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Methods on TUI fields

More methods on TUI fields are needed. E.g. is field protected, is field unprotected.In other words: If you can say "set field xx" then you should also be able to say "if (field is xx)". Some of the attributes, e.g. colors, can be grouped and it w...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL TUI form shall behave like a container

It shall be possible to walk through the form fields such that a getFirst method returns a reference to the position wise first field, and a getNext method returns a reference to the next field, again position wise. A field reference, obtained usi...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program

This is to resolve an issue we raised in Case number TS010545379. We have been asked to raise a RFE to provide a new feature to bring resolution to the issue. The feature is to define variable for CLOB data type in EGL program. From the case accor...
about 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Printing capabilities in EGL

As a programming language, It needs to have printing capabilities to send files directly to the printer (Server side & Client side(RUI)) with some printing features, e.g: -Silent mode, in case of printing server side-prompt & don't prompt ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

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 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Exit command for Library

Hi, We coding EGL on RBD 9.5.1. We use exit program command to exit from the program.When we use exit command inside the library, generation error is occuring.
about 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Provide capability to supply x-axis labels on DojoBarChart

Currently, only y-axis values can be represented on a Dojo bar chart. (This is not a limitation of Dojo but a limitation of the EGL wrapper.) We would like to be able to label bars displayed by the DojoBarChart widget on the x axis. In the current...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Ability to translate runtime messages

Since we do our business in dutch-speaking areas, we'd like to translate the strings already contained in te product (runtime messages). For instance error messages, show to the user.
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Generic types and parameters of type any

Parameters of type "any" should have methods returning the type, basic type, length and decimals. Example:x num(10,2);foo(x);.. function foo(p any) writeStdOut(p.type()); writeStdOut(p.basicType()); writeStdOut(p.length()); writeStdOut(p.decimals(...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration