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RUI MVC: Include FormField in MVC delegates

FormField enhancement:Include applicationInfo of type any in the FormField definition. Delegate enhancement:Include the FormField in the parameter list of all MVC related delegates.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Export Runtime Dependencies

We would like to have a way to export from the IDE (based on an EGL project's external JAR dependencies) the resources needed for our stand-alone Java runtime environment. An "Export" option under a project's Properties->Java Build Path would b...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

Enable use of initNonIODataOnCall initIORecordsOnCall for call program as library

Currently, if you use the call program as library call option, the values of initNonIODataOnCall initIORecordsOnCall are ignored (and NO is taken as the default value). This influences the behaviour of some programs, so that the behaviour of the s...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

fix test installer needed for Linux

Up to now, fix tests were delivered with a Windows installer. Due to build performance reasons, we have shifted development to Linux machines. We would like to have a Linux installer to add fix test, as the general installation mechanism is also a...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Delivered

Full interoperability between Java and EGL called programs (pass DB connection to and fro)

We would like to treat EGL called programs as ordinary POJOs. This means that we would like to have an interface to a called program that can provide all necessary resources, such as Database transaction ,... to the called program from an external...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

setup multiple test fixes for Rational Business developer

There are lots of fixes relative to PMR.We prepared batch for all developer's PCs setup testfixes but we dont understand whether they are succesful . There aren't any log anywhere. This situation is problem for us. Because we can't manage.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

enable deactivation of CheckNumericOverflow for Java genearation

Dear Sir or Madam,we are an IBM premium partner. We are developing migration tools for migrating from RPG or Cobol to EGL. The idea behind migrating from Cobol to EGL and generating back to Cobol or to Java is, that once the application is running...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

rafactor extract method

after user selectedpart of egl code in a function, right click->rafactor->extract method, IDE will help user the extract a method without any error in source code.and then, the function be smaller.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Delivered

Use of Date, Time, and Timestamp in EGL and DB2

Add the possibility to create user defined Exits on different data types. This functionality must be available for at least the following data types; Date, Time and Timestamp. The Build Descriptor would name the Exit programs. The customers must w...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Change fixed record implementation

The implementation of a fixed record is at the moment hybrid. The fixed record is represented by an object model, and it is simultaneously backed by a byte storage. This causes at minimum a doubling of any action and the creation of many intermedi...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered