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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

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

Support for facelets

Facelets are the official view technology for JSF 2.0. Facelets are already supported in the "sibling product" Rational Application Developer 8, but the newest JSF standard supported in Rational Business Developer is JSF 1.2.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Add support for WAS 9.0

Was 9.9 GA was June 2016 but is not yet available.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Local record definitions

It would be nice if it was possible to define records locally within a program and even within a function. Then the programmer wouldn't have to think about making the record names unique when defining a record which is not meant to be used outside...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Ability to translate runtime messages

Since we do our business in dutch-speaking areas, we'd like to translate the strings already contained in te product (runtime messages). For instance error messages, show to the user.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Generic types and parameters of type any

Parameters of type "any" should have methods returning the type, basic type, length and decimals. Example:x num(10,2);foo(x);.. function foo(p any) writeStdOut(p.type()); writeStdOut(p.basicType()); writeStdOut(p.length()); writeStdOut(p.decimals(...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL enabling Adapter support for Worklight

For EGL being the business language it would be good to have an EGL like interface to Worklight Mobile clients. This would be a good integration.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 5 Not under consideration

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