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RBD EGL Debug listener to be launched from IDEs other than VAGEN

IBM developed and EGL Debug Listener with the request of Halkbank. We can do End to End debugging from VAGEN GUI to EGL in RBD and back to VAGEN GUI. We want to have this facility for other IDEs also
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Request IBM to add EXPRTIME= for IMS Fast Path transactions

When Fast Path transactions are not processing quickly enough they can back up in IMS, increasing the storage utilized to contain control blocks associated with them. If an IMS expiration value is set, transactions that aren't processed before tha...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Not under consideration

Set timeout value on a MQ descriptor (to tell MQ how long time the message stay on the MQ queue before it is deleted)

Be able to set a timeout value for an asynchronous message to MQ using an MQ descriptor. (To tell MQ how long time the message should stay on the MQ queue before it is deleted.)
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

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

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

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

Issue informational message when QBUFMAX parameter was reached

Customer faced two hung situations where QBUFMAX parameter was reached. They would like to receive a message when this parameter was reached and also if, during initialization the QBUFMAX value is the same as QBUF specification
over 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 5 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