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Copyless call-by-value [RTC 32245]

Copyless call-by-valueIn the current implementation, call-by-value allocates memory for function parameters and call-by-reference does not. Call-by-value must be used if the caller must be sure that the callee does not modify the argument. Moreove...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Dataitems within EGL are not entirally usuable.[RTC 35573]

Dataitems cannot be used when defining constants in EGL When I define a dataitem (with an EGL source file) as follows: dataitem Zipcode string end and I then define a constant based on this dataitem as follows: const myZipcode Zipcode = "1031HH"; ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Provide explicit control over generation of associated Java classes

To be provided ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Lifetime / Persistence of called programs [RTC 36149]

When migrating programs from legacy languages like Cobol or RPG to EGL we often encounter the problem that in all these languages the programmer has control about how long a program stays in memory. - In Cobol the developer just can CANCEL another...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

EGL CICS Web Service Client has to use basic HTTP authorization [35160]

We have to send authentication information (a user ID and password)from an EGL CICS Web Services client to Web Services Provider, using basic HTTP authorization (user ID and password are encoded and sent in HTTP Authorization header).
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

RBD RUI has a primitive grid widget hurting sales

I am a tech sale, I present RBD alot. We fail to demo RBD with RUI. Since the RUI grid widget is very primitive. The expected functionality is ease of use as in JSF. Data binding with services and records using GUI.Selling RBD as a RUI builder is ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Fast access to global constants in COBOL

The only way we know to define global constants in EGL is by defining public, i.e. non-private, consts in a library. We are concerned that this does not perform well in COBOL since constants defined in EGL libraries are translated to a COBOL exter...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

request to be able to disable content assist in EGL Editor

EGL content assist might be slow when working on projects migrated from VAG to EGL. It will be very helpful to have preferences similar to the one available for the Java Editor under Java ->Editor -> Content assist -> checkbox "Enable aut...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Invoking J2EELib from EGL Libraries

Currently J2EELIB functions can not be issued from EGL libraries running in J2EE environments. When using layered approach for implementing complex enterprise applications using EGL, each layer is implemented in the form of EGL libraries (e.g. DAO...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

RUI Gateway Single JSP and Enhanced UI Record

Need an enhanced API for VGDataElement and VGUIRecordBean. Need to be able to enumerate the names of the available fields. Need to be able to get the type of each field (VGDataElement))
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

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