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Red error markers should be visible in parts reference list

Existing red error markers from source validation should be visible in parts reference list.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Improve EGLSDK performance by only regenerating code for EGL source that has changed

Client would like to improve EGLSDK performance by only regenerating code for EGL source that has changed. <Env> Rational Business Developer V7.5.1.4 + EGLFixtest200912041057 + EGLFixtest201001211102 + EGLFixtest201001261536 + EGLFixtest2010...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

EGL maps in Parts Reference should appear in different lines

In Rational Business Developer 7.5, EGL Parts Reference, Use Declarations, when there's an EGL mapset with several maps, they should appear as the tables, in the first line the mapset name, then we explode and see each map in different lines with ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Suppress empty entries returned by program call service

With the service wizard in EGL you can quickly create SOAP/RESTful services to do RPG program calls.However when the output parameter list of the RPG program contains repeating groups also all empty groups are sent in JSON format to the EGL GUI. I...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Suppress blanks in fields returned by program call services

When I call an EGL RESTful service which is implemented by an RPG program call, in the JSON response I get all fields padded with blanks. Is it possible to trim the fields in a webservices? When using VARYING parameters the PCML cannot be generate...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Resource association property text=YES to implement print output in text format rather then present Postscript

Environment: z/linux USS Product name: Rational Business Developer Program Version : 7.5.1.4z/OS 1.7 (Parallel Sysplex)RBD 7.5.1.4USS 1.7IBM JAVA 1.5.0 SR 11 We saw print format errors when printing from EGL to spool on USS. We tested functionalit...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

RBD data access generation for list specification is deficient

When a user is trying to use specification list it has the following deficiencies.1. Page control, the client cannot page back and forth the amount of a rows in a batch.2. Using the 'group by' clause on the select fails with SQL error.I had to ext...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

We cannot retreive SQL record definition of temporary table

SQL record - retreive SQL function should work with DB2 temporary tables (type = 'G')
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 2 Not under consideration

CheckStyle support for EGL in RBD

EGL should support some static code analysis tool like CheckStyle, which is already available as a plugin to Eclipse. This will help large projects to automate quality checks for ensuring coding conventions and best practice compliance.
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Invoking Stored Procedures Returning Multiple Resultsets

Currently EGL code can not call a stored procedure (SP) which returns multiple result sets. This is a major limitation as Enterprise Modernization team has no control over existing stored procedures of an enterprise application. They need to simpl...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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