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Array initialization with a variable size

Initialize any array directly using a numeric variable as the new sizethrows syntax error.iex int = 2;myArr myRec[x];OrmyArr = new myRec[x];Or evenmyArr = new myRec[myotherArr.getSize()];all the 3 bold statements are not available in the compilati...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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

Cordova support enhancements

We are quite happy with the dojo mobile widgets en the latest native Cordova support in RBD 9.5.0.Although we would like the dojox.mobile.TextBox and the dojox.mobile.RadioButton to be added to the Dojo mobile widgets project.Second we would like ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

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

Enable EGL datagrid to show scrollbar and header at same time

Because our customer's screen limitation (800x600), so they need EGL datagrid show scrollbar and header at same time.
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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...
almost 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

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

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