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Link to JavaScript files i.s.o copying them into deployed EGL RUI HTML (Dynamic Loading)

When deploying an EGL RUI handler to an HTML file, all referenced JavaScript files are copied into the HTML. This makes the HTML really large, increasing load time and initial response in the browser. It also causes duplication of widget JavaScrip...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Delivered

EGL - GET DIAGNOSTICS statement

We want support in EGL for the GET DIAGNOSTICS statement. EGL has the basic ROWSET processing, but doesn'n implement the GET DIAGNOSTICS support.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Need For New Option for RBD SQL Retrieve

Hello, We use RBD tool. In this tool, when we retrieve rows from DB2 table with SQL Retrieve module, we want to change table names to lowercase. There are three option over there but need for new option.
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Rich UI Editor - Folding - option Collapse All is missing

RBD, Rich UI Editor, *.egl sourceRight click on left border in source editor tab (dark grey bar), Select option Folding, shows options [ExpandAll, Expand, Collapse] Please add option Collapse AllThis feature will add value for analysing/developing...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

Overload resolution bug

When a library has multiple functions with the same name, and the same number of parameters (but of different types), the compiler sometimes generates code that calls the wrong function, if one of the parameter values is null.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Bug: nullable decimal field not null when returned from service to Rich UI

We have a service that returns a record where one of the fields is a nullable decimal. We have a Rich UI application that calls this service via SOAP.If we set the field value to null in the service function (we confirmed that it is null before re...
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Support for WAS 8 by RBD and RDi with SOA v8

We have been using RDi for SOA for three years to do HATS development as well as RPG development. We even have plans to use EGL. We upgraded to RDi for SOA 8.0 for HATS 8.0 and WebSphere 8.0 support. After several days of trials and tribulations, ...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Delivered

Add WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile as an available server target runtime.

WebSphere 8.5 introduced the lightweight "Liberty" profile for use by developers. RBD 8.5 supports WAS 8.5, but the Liberty profile is not available as a deployment target in RBD.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

RBD EGL Rich UI PasswordTextField placeholder

The default properties into RUI widget PasswordTextField do not allow you to set the placeholder or the alternative widget in Dojo DojoTextField which instead has the placeholder property does not allow you to correctly set the input type = passwo...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

WSDL client interface on nillable fields can't be compared to null

When I create a client interface from a web service wsdl files for a record which contains nillable fields, the record field can not be compared to null. It always defaults to the current date. The client interface record has the following paramet...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered