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    CKFCOLL should use CSF-API Calls to collect ICSF key label information and not read ICSF Key Data Sets

    We remarked that the CSF STC was blocked for some minutes by the CKFCOLL jobreading the Key Data Sets. With growing importance of encription that mightget more and more a problem. So we think it might be better to use the CSF-APIs (e.g. CSFKDSL (K...
    almost 3 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 2 Not under 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

    Display / Select MFA Segment via RA.U Option

    Using RA.U to list User IDs, you can select IDs via the segment and show the values based on the segment. However in the list of segments MFA does not appear. This seems to be an oversight?
    over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 5 Functionality already exists

    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

    EGL does not support recursion in records

    Currently, EGL doesn't support records with recursive datatypes, meaning that records that look something like record rec1 r rec1[ ];end are not possible in EGL. Since I've come across quite a few web services written in Java that return an object...
    about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

    request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

    When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
    about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

    zSecure - Allow function e.g. SUM for User-Defined Variables

    zSecure gives us the ability to define our own file structures using e.g. DEVTYPE TYPE=$txt, but then doesn't allow us to use any of the fields we define in DEFINE statements, such as in SUM(xxx). It's a case of, "giving with one hand and taking a...
    over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 2 Future consideration

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