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Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions

Forms, form fields and attributes to be passed as arguments for sub functions. Example:red string = "red";setColor(field, red);... function setColor(field formField, color string) set field color;end
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Allow copy/paste from/into Java TextForm Field

After downsize from EGL genned COBOL/CICS and frontend TextForm 3270 to EGL genned Java/Windows and frontend TextForm 3270, the customer lost the copy / paste functionality to TextForm field.
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

EGL Genrator targeting WAS Batch Enviroment

An option in the EGL generator for targeting the WAS Batch/ Extended Deployment Compute Grid as a runtime environment for Java-generated EGL programs
about 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Support for enumerations in EGL

There's a need to be able to add enumerations in the EGL language so proper parameters can be defined in functions which forces the developer to pass predefined values.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Cursor methods on TUI forms

The methods must return the name and index of the field which holds the cursor. Example:cursorField string = form.getCursor();case (cursorField) when "NAME" ... when "CITY" ... when "ADDRESS_LINES" cursorFieldIndex int = form.getCursorIndex(); cas...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Methods on TUI fields

More methods on TUI fields are needed. E.g. is field protected, is field unprotected.In other words: If you can say "set field xx" then you should also be able to say "if (field is xx)". Some of the attributes, e.g. colors, can be grouped and it w...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL TUI form shall behave like a container

It shall be possible to walk through the form fields such that a getFirst method returns a reference to the position wise first field, and a getNext method returns a reference to the next field, again position wise. A field reference, obtained usi...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Rational Business Developer dependency analyze Tool

Client has large EGL project need to analyze its dependency, the need RBD to add a tool to read RBD temp file like *dg.
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
over 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

RBD SQL Retrieve lowercase charachter problem

Hello, Depending on the RFE record that number is 121100, change letter to lowercase must made according to English character set.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration