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Implement eze functions i debug/java

Request for eze functions "getcallingprogram", "getcurrentfunction", "getcurrentline" and "getcallstack" implemented in debug/java
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

FileUpload dialog

EGL is designed for people not knowing HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, JSF etc. We would like to have a dialog to upload files to the server and receive them as a blob. The only (non-working) examples on the EGL-web are in JSP, JSF etc. Abacadabra to...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Ability to add META to top of generated HTML

the ability to add META to the generated HTML code. The following example would turn off caching. <head><meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" /><meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" /><meta http-equiv="Cache-Co...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Soap v1.2 support

When consuming WSDL files in EGL, the RBD environment will complain if the soap protocol is 1.2. We would like to be able to consume soap 1.2 WSDL's into the EGL environment.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Nullable records in service requests

When a parent record contains a child record which is nullable, you have to explicitly set the child record to non-null (using the 'new' keyword). If you forget this and send this parent record to a service, the value in the child record do not ma...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered

Need a complete Rich UI sample

A complete EGL Rich UI sample is missing with:- UI developed with EGL Rich UI- business logic developed with EGL (either Java or COBOL generated) The available samples are often with only one screen https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperwo...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

Circumvent 64K limit in Java

It is possible to generate large EGL functions and records to Java without any errors.No validation errors (red x'es) will be displayed for large parts.But the Java compilation will fail if the byte code for a Java class exceeds 64Kbytes.As it is ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

EGL Archive (EGLAR) file for dependent projects

We are developing a large-size web application (1600+ screens and 1600 tables) using EGL and RBDe. Due to layered nature of the application architecture and screen-specific requirements, the number of files in project is further multiplied. Effect...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

Overload resolution bug

When a library has multiple functions with the same name, and the same number of parameters (but of different types), the compiler sometimes generates code that calls the wrong function, if one of the parameter values is null.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Bug: nullable decimal field not null when returned from service to Rich UI

We have a service that returns a record where one of the fields is a nullable decimal. We have a Rich UI application that calls this service via SOAP.If we set the field value to null in the service function (we confirmed that it is null before re...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

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