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    Support for enumerations in EGL

    There's a need to be able to add enumerations in the EGL language so proper parameters can be defined in functions which forces the developer to pass predefined values.
    about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

    CARMA Enhanced Browse to resolve dependencies that are in property group

    When editing/browsing an Endevor element using CARMA, we would like to have the ability to cancel out of the edit session and not have a copy of the source remain in the lower entry stage of Endevor. This would be the equivalent of an edit in that...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

    Cursor methods on TUI forms

    The methods must return the name and index of the field which holds the cursor. Example:cursorField string = form.getCursor();case (cursorField) when "NAME" ... when "CITY" ... when "ADDRESS_LINES" cursorFieldIndex int = form.getCursorIndex(); cas...
    about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

    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

    Code folding feature in RDz Cobol Editor

    This is a request to incorporate the "code folding" feature in the Cobol editor in RDz. The LPEX editor has this feature by using X or XX to "hide" lines. Ideally this should work with Scoped statements. i.e. all the statements in an IF-ENDIF pair.
    about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 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

    Reset Insert Mode when AID Sent to Host

    Reset Insert Mode when AID Sent to Host. Insert remains active in RDz Host Connection Emulator and is reset when the reset command is sent. Utilizing this functionality will reset the insert mode when AID is sent to host. Continuing as is, this ca...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    LPEX /ISPF key bindings

    Please make the F3 key map to close the editor area instead of "Open Declaration". For experienced ISPF users the F3 key is ingrained as save and close. Consider remapping the Open Declaration function to something like Ctrl+O.
    over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 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

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