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IBM Rational Business Developer

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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

Have EGL support SSO using Kerberos

We'd like to use EGL in a Single Sign On environment as follows:- User logs on to Windows (Active Directory)- User opens our EGL application in a browser (Firefox)- EGL application calls EGL program call service- EGL proxy (running on Linux/WAS) r...
about 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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

Connecting to PostgreSQL-database

Currently, RBD only supports database connections to DB2, Derby, Informix, Oracle and SQL Server. Other database providers (which also have JDBC-drivers) are not supported. We want to be able to connect to a PostgreSQL-database.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

Sonarqube analyzer for EGL

We want to analyze quality of EGL code.There is already a tool which name is Software Analyzer in RBD.We want to analyze EGL code with Sonarqube besides Software Analyzer.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Comparing 2 nullable values that are both null returns false

We have 2 variables that are nullable (for example: nullable ints or nullable dates).If both variables are null, and we check them for equality, the result should be true, but it's false. Code example:a, b int?;a = null;b = null;if(a == b) writeSt...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Exit command for Library

Hi, We coding EGL on RBD 9.5.1. We use exit program command to exit from the program.When we use exit command inside the library, generation error is occuring.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Generated HTML with EGLDoc Plugin

Hi,We want to standardize all egl programs. In some parts such as programs, libraries, functions, records, items, it is essential to use "Description = #doc{ }" property.From this property we want to generate HTML such as Javadoc plugin. Thank you...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 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

Enable multiple EGL default target system build descriptors

In the EGL file Properties, in the group EGL Default Build Descriptors, allow multiple build descriptors in the settings Target system build descriptors, when selecting Specify default build descriptor values for this resource.
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Planned for future release