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EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

suppressChangeEvent on DojoCheckBox and other Dojo-fields

RBD9.5 introduced a property suppressChangeEvent on DojoTextField. This was very useful since we were now able to eliminate a lot of code that would simulate this working when set to true. However, this property seemed to be implemented on text-ba...
about 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmatically.

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmaticallyThen be able to manipulate the widgetCurrent solution - added attribute and are "looking" for it, but wondered/wanted easier way
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Support substrings with length zero in EGL

EGL supports the concept of substrings by means of the syntax: source[start:end], which returns the substring of source from position start to end, including both start and end position. Currently, when end is less than start, a run-time exception...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Retrieve user and password from HTTP header

We have an EGL service which calls several RPG programs. In order to run these RPG programs under the loggod on user we pass the user and password to the EGL service as parameters.We rather pass the user and password in the HTML header (using Serv...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

RBD EGL Rich UI need better DOJO linegraph support.

The default linegraph behavior provides little value. To do a linegraph as intended by the dojo the follow enhancements are requested - multiple lines on a single line graph. - ability to input x and y values not just y coord- legends and coloring...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 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.
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 6 Not under consideration

Format patterns must be supported by TUI forms

Format patterns are not supported by TUI forms.They should be supported and work like formatNumber and formatDate.
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

SuperC support for VSAM records greater than 64K

We have a customer that wants to use VSAM datasets with record sizes greater than 64K. They rely on SUPERC to do comparisons of test runs. SUPERC does not support record sizes greater than 64K. We would like to see an enhancement for this support.
almost 11 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 4 Not under consideration

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Customer's EGL project will translate EGL program into Java program running on WAS server and COBOL program running on CICS. If the Java program and COBOL program have the different parmForm type (COMMPTR and CHANNEL), in some special cases, it wi...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration