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EGL - GET DIAGNOSTICS statement

We want support in EGL for the GET DIAGNOSTICS statement. EGL has the basic ROWSET processing, but doesn'n implement the GET DIAGNOSTICS support.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

RBD/EGL support for DB2 for z/OS XML columns

RBD/EGL doesn't support DB2 for z/OS XML column type. This represents a significant obstacle for EGL developers to integrate their appliactions with DB2 objects used by Websphere/java appliactions.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Rich UI Editor - Folding - option Collapse All is missing

RBD, Rich UI Editor, *.egl sourceRight click on left border in source editor tab (dark grey bar), Select option Folding, shows options [ExpandAll, Expand, Collapse] Please add option Collapse AllThis feature will add value for analysing/developing...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

Support for WAS 8 by RBD and RDi with SOA v8

We have been using RDi for SOA for three years to do HATS development as well as RPG development. We even have plans to use EGL. We upgraded to RDi for SOA 8.0 for HATS 8.0 and WebSphere 8.0 support. After several days of trials and tribulations, ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Delivered

Add WebSphere 8.5 Liberty profile as an available server target runtime.

WebSphere 8.5 introduced the lightweight "Liberty" profile for use by developers. RBD 8.5 supports WAS 8.5, but the Liberty profile is not available as a deployment target in RBD.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Request to support Internet Explorer 9 for EGL Rich UI

Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is needed for EGL rich UI applications. It is not listed in RBD 8.0.1 at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27020053 Note that IE 9 is supported starting from Dojo 1.7(see http://dojotoolkit....
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Delivered

Debugger - new features (watchpoints, conditional breakpoints, variable tracking)

I suggest the following enhancements to the debugger. All of them are nice, common features found in other debuggers. 1) Display variable content.2) Watch window.3) Conditional break points.4) Variable tracking.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 8 Delivered

EGL debugger: improvement for variable content tracking

Version 7.0.1 adds a "find facility" to the variables view in debug mode. But retrieving the content of a variable still is not comfortable for the developer.He still needs the fully qualified variable name to get the desired information. Programs...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Need For New Option for RBD SQL Retrieve

Hello, We use RBD tool. In this tool, when we retrieve rows from DB2 table with SQL Retrieve module, we want to change table names to lowercase. There are three option over there but need for new option.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

WSDL client interface on nillable fields can't be compared to null

When I create a client interface from a web service wsdl files for a record which contains nillable fields, the record field can not be compared to null. It always defaults to the current date. The client interface record has the following paramet...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered