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Convert all sql words in #sql statement to upper case

If we have Half Width Katakana in our EGL literals and lower case sql keywords, we must currently rewrite our EGL source code to change the Half Width Katakana to normal width, or change our lower case SQL keywords into upper case, to avoid compil...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Batch Migration RBD 7.1.0.5 -> RBD 8.0.1.1

Check the possibility to create a automated batch migration between version RBD 7.1.0.5 and RBD 8.0.1.1 A manually migration of all source will take a lot of time for a user (with interaction) As discussed on call with Paul Hoffman there could be ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Create new runtime module returning microseconds when invoking dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp()

Currently the dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp() function returns a timestamp in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:FFFFFF. Unfortunately the fraction part does not return microseconds even that the format indicates this. Instead only milliseconds is retu...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

AnyHandler, AnyService, AnyInterface

We want to implement some generic frameworks and for this it is necessary to pass multiple RUIHandler and Service parts to a common set of functions. Currently there is no 'AnyHandler' or 'AnyService' type in the EGL language, which means that the...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Support of DB2 synonyms for validateSQLStatements=yes

We would like to use the SQLValidatation during Generation of Cobol (validateSQLStatements=yes). Because we are using DB2 Synonyms in our SQL statements, SQLValidation during Generation fails. It looks like as if only the DB2 SYSIBM.SYSTABLES is c...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

ORDER BY makes data service fail

We often generate services to retrieve SQL data from AS/400 using the Data Access Application wizard. The generated services contain several functions amongst which the function to retrieve a list of data which can be specified with the fromTables...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

SQLRetrieve Check for existing DataItems

When retrieving the SQLRecord from the database, it should check for existing DataItems in the EGL Data Dictionary which match. (see VAGen capabilities)
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Option to disable BIND step during Cobol Generation

We would like to see a option to disable the DB2 bind step during generation instead of separating generation and bind. This could be a option on the build part or during the generate with wizard.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Jasper Reports documentation

We are trying to implement an EGL project with Jasper Reporting and do not find the existing documentation on this topic very explicit in general. Present resources found are: RBD infocenter to Jasper reports via http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/info...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

Be able to import interfaces from Websphere Integration Developer

A Websphere Integration Developer project contains interfaces for Human Tasks.We want to be able to import those interfaces into the RBD project so we can create user inferfaces for those interfaces.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

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