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program property GenCobStaticArrays for preventing Cobol runtime overhead for dynamic arrays

Dear Sir or Madam,we from PKS Company are developing as partner of IBM tools for migration from RPG/Cobol to EGL. Thereby we encounter heavy performance problems, because all the originally static arrays will become dynamic arrays with huge runtim...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

including unsigned numeric type to the egl primitive types

Hello EGL developer,we are an IBM partner and developing Migration Tools for migrating from RPG or Cobol to EGL. We are missing an EGL primitive type for unsigned numeric data like in Cobol. Of course it would be possible to define an own data ite...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 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...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

RBD data access generation extensibility

A client need to extend the features of the generated library. Need to do this for each library manually. We have 2 cases of extension points the client requested.1. Adding authorization check on each data access. Requires adding a call and argume...
about 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...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

RBD data access generation control over generated names

Using data access generation wizard generates names using internal logic. A client want more control over the names. For the following reasons.1. Naming conventions to distinguish sql record types from basic types.2. Naming conventions to distingu...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

remove 65535-limit for arrays according to java method size limitation

Hello,I've inserted the following problem as pmr71243 and was asked by my contact Mark, to insert a rfe. Here the problem description and some information out of pmr71243: I can't find any information about a limitation for the dimension of arrays...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Red error markers should be visible in parts reference list

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

Top Level Function (TLF) source code needs to be compiled with the containers (program/handler/library) that invoke them

"Top Level Function (TLF) source code needs to be compiled with the containers (program/handler/library) that invoke them. This is because, TLFs can contain references to global data in the container. When they are compiled standalone, the compile...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

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