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Rui MVC: make entire form input or read only at runtime

Add functionality to Rich UI MVC to make entire form input or read only at runtime.Also, allow programmer to specify at the FormField record that a given form field is a key field
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL RUI swapWidgets function

swapWidgets (w1 Widget, w2 Widget); A function that removes Widget w1 (from a box for example) and puts Widget w2 in its place.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Fast EGL global variable declaration

Let's say i'm in line number 654 of my EGL RUI handler source code, and i'm writing a function, and i realize that i need a new (global) variable of type INT that would solve the thing. I would like to be able to resolve it from there, from inside...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Implement event bubbling for EGL/RUI

Events are not bubbled when a Widget catches the event. For example, the onKeyUp function of a Widget catches an event. This event will never make it to the onKeyUp fucntion of a parent Widget. A much better solution would be to really implement e...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL build in function to sort arrays of primitive types

Dear Sir or Madam,We from PKS company, partner of IBM, are developing RBD extensions for migration of RPG/Cobol programs to EGL. Thereby we missed an EGL function to sort arrays of primitive types, like it does the frequently used RPG operation co...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Need documentation on how to develop EGL Web application calling CICS programs using different languages

Each CICS server and associated DB2 database supports a single language (for example Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian)Only the EGL Web application retrieves data from these different sources.
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

Request to enhance error message for locale not supported during Informix extraction

When trying to extract database information to migrate from Informix i4GL to EGL, An error is raised when an incorrect locale is used: Locale not supported. It would be good to have an indication of what locale is supported. Error message seems to...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

EGL - Using MVS data set from USS

The Java programs using JZOS can access HFS or MVS data sets for printing or working with sequential files. EGL generated java program on USS can only use HFS datasets for printing using Printform or for sequential datasets. We need same functiona...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

stop migrator from removing blank constant fields

Hi,Some of the developers have requested if it is possible to say put in an option to stop the VisualAge Generator (VisGen) to EGL migrator from removing blank constant fields from the 3270 screen when converting from VisGen to EGL.Thanks
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Map fields as function and program parameters

I would be nice if it was possible to parse map fields as in/out parameters to functions and programs.That would enable the programmer to write common functions and programs, setting the attributes of the map fields.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration