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Segmented flag must be honored by Web Transactions

The converse statement currently releases all resources such as open cursors, etc... This is a serious problem as it breaks the semantics of ADABAS/Natural applications that are migrated to EGL. This is believed to be a very easy thing to honor - ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Manipulate element names in wsdl generation [RTC 46269]

We are creating services where we define the request and response messages as basicrecords. In those records we use arrays, and when this is generated to a wsdl the array types are named ...Array. For example : People Person[] will be defined as P...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Unnecessary complex record part names in service interface parts

The EGL service wizard now creates complex names for nested record parts in the interface part of the service, while the service itself uses plain names.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

005f added after any underscore in the jsf variable names

When generating a jsf enabled jsp, if in the EGL jsf handler you add a variable having an underscore in it, and reference such variable from a jsf tag, let's say an input field, you'll see the reference with a 005f after the underscore. Meaning: m...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

EGL handler using an EGL library holds on to global EGL library and the global variables within that library

request to improve performance by handling differently libraries in JSF handlers.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

skip re-generation of unchanged egl source code wiht SDK

EGLSDK always re-generate egl source code which are listed in the command file.Generating unchanged souce code is not necessary becauses it takes much more time.It's a good idea behaving like Java SDK.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

Issue warning when we skip generation of dead code

Request to improve EGL validation to verify that every positional get statements (get next, get previous, ...) are following an open statement.
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

EGLSDK should implement incremental regeneration of IR files [35226]

Environment: Windows Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer Program Version : 7.5.1.3Description.The EGLSDK command line always regenerates the IR files regardless of whether any associated EGL files have been altered or not. In the RBD G...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Re-generation of EGL programs

It would be very nice if the EGL programmer could right-click on an item in the "EGL Generation Results" window and choose "Re-generate Item". It would also be nice if the EGL programmer could right-click in the "EGL Generation Results" window and...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Hierarchical package presentation does not work in the EGL Project Explorer

Create a new EGL Project. Create a package named a.b.c In the Project Explorer, the package shows up as "a.b.c" under the EGLSource folder. Click on the drop down arrow for the Project Explorer view to show the filters, Link Editor option, etc. Ex...
about 17 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

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