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Option to check, return the value of all field attributes

We would like the enhancement where there is a mechanism within RBD/EGL to check, return the value of a green screen's field attributes.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL Data Wizard provide functionality for returning auto-generated column values on the AddXXXX functions.

I would like to see the EGL Data Wizard provide functionality for returning auto-generated column values on the AddXXXX functions. Presently, the wizard only allows you to mark a column as Read Only to prevent the generated code from trying to mai...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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

Smarter deployment for multiple EARs

This RFE is related to RFE no. RATLC01512472.Will be great if we can separate the common components (fda7.jar, dojo libraries, egl.js, etc.) in a global package (possibly a .jar) and deploy it globally visible to a lot of applications, each one de...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

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

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

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...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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