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    Initial READ-Intent for a PCB until a DLI GET-HOLD call or ISRT call is issued

    All PCBs in a PSB should have an initial Read-Intent regardless which PROCOPT is coded. If an Update-Intent is coded for a PCB it only should become active when the first GET-HOLD call or ISRT call is issued against that PCB. This will cause fewer...
    almost 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 0 Not under consideration

    Debug EGL code invoked from any language

    It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
    over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Not under consideration

    Move DLI OSAM and VSAM control blocks above the bar

    There are many OSAM and VSAM storage control blocks that are currently stored below the line. The use of HALDB databases and number of databases datasets defined to IMS is always increasing. HALDB also requires additional dataset to cater for Seco...
    about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance IMS to be able to do decimal compares on DL/I calls

    Current IMS only performs binary compares when a DL/I call contains a qualified SSA. This is a problem for packed and zoned decimal values and comparisons with >, >=, < and <=. Because IMS only performs binary comparisons a DL/I call c...
    over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Future consideration

    JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

    We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

    temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for RBD to RAM disk

    Client need to improve the project build performance in RBD, so they have following suggestion to improve performance: 1.To change temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for Rational Business Developer tool (ver. 9.6, 9.5.1, 9.5) for the RAM disk 2....
    over 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

    XML Processing Support

    As XML is a defacto standard for distributed enterprise application communication, EGL should provide complete in-built support for XML processing. This includes parsing, validating, transforming, querying XML documents. Currently EGL only support...
    about 17 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

    WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

    Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
    about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

    Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

    Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
    almost 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

    USE EXEC SQLIMS with CCSID 1390

    One of the three mega bank in Japan requires to use EXEC SQLIMS language support with CCSID 1390. EXEC SQLIMS language support is indispensable for their on-going project.
    over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

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