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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 - ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL - Using MVS data set from USS

The Java programs using JZOS can access HFS or MVS data sets for printing or working with sequential files. EGL generated java program on USS can only use HFS datasets for printing using Printform or for sequential datasets. We need same functiona...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

generate HTML doc from EGL code

in the menu "project", we have the possibility to generate "javadoc" but EGL developers want to generated "HTML document" for his egl code and not for the generated java code.Is it possible to replace or add for EGL guys a new menu "eglDoc"?
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 5 Not under consideration

Automatic functional test in EGL

when we coding using EGL in RBD, there are no a unit test framework like Junit. But the unit test is important and we expect RBD can automatic generate the test code like Junit framework. this topic have been discussed in this community(http://www...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL support for one-way style webservices (RTC 28405)

We need RDB to support one-way style webservice (contain only input message, no output)
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Support arbitrary expressions for array initial length declarations

KBC requests that arbitrary positive integer expressions are supported for array initial length declarations, not just literals. It should be possible to write the following code for example, list dnt_map[in0s03_R_47.ipt_Zn.usr_Data.dnm_Tbl_Sze_Cr...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Make labels from SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS for SQL data items visible in egl parts reference-data declarations

In VAG we were retrieving record definitions from SQL. We had to fill description column for each dataitem manually (that was stupid because we already had it in SQL).Contents was visible when expanding application structure. In EGL when program i...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Add support for stateless/stateful properties to EGL webservice wizard (RTC 24781)

Add support for stateful/stateless properties in the EGL WebServices wizards.At the moment the wizard only supports stateful for REST services. If I specify not stateful, it uses the outdated default call interface that requires QEGL on IBM i and ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

How to move unstructured records between arrays

Customer, is trying to move an array of records to another empty one, using the move command with the byname syntax. It's possible to do it only with a structured record.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

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