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Allow build descriptors to be specified as annotations

When working with Rich UI applications in the RBD tooling today it is often necessary to set properties at a package or part level indicating whether to use a Java or a JavaScript build descriptor during generation. For example, Rich UI handlers n...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

Make EUnit available for RBD/EGL

We would like to use the EUnit facility that is available for EDT/EGL to become available and officially supported by RBD/EGL. We know there is an unofficial version in use by Paul Hoffman, but we would like it to be an official part of the RBD/EG...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Planned for future release

DB connection properties are retained within multiple service calls

We have a RUI application where we have been trying to implement a dynamic login to authenticate our users to implement specific data access statements within the application from iSeries DB2 Datasource and in turn from user profiles contained wit...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

EGL problem with DB2 Warnings

There's a problem with DB2 Warnings in EGL, because they're been treated like errors, not like warnings. It's a little difficult to reproduce the problem because i haven't been able to get a DB2 warning on purpose, but we've got this problem twice...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

RHEL 6.1 - support for RBD

Currently the highest supported Red Hat distribution is 5.0 https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27021798#Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_%28RHEL%29_AS_ES Our customer prefers using RHEL 6.1
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Planned for future release

Problems when using EGL data item sizes > 300000

EGL is having problems when we are creating data item sizes > 300000.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

"waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment

Request for the ability to have a "waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release