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IBM Rational Business Developer

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Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...
about 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for RBD to RAM disk

Client need to improve the project build performance in RBD, so they have following suggestion to improve performance: 1.To change temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for Rational Business Developer tool (ver. 9.6, 9.5.1, 9.5) for the RAM disk 2....
about 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 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

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

Dojo MenuBar

Hi,please add the Dojo MenuBar widget. https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/MenuBar.html
almost 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Printing capabilities in EGL

As a programming language, It needs to have printing capabilities to send files directly to the printer (Server side & Client side(RUI)) with some printing features, e.g: -Silent mode, in case of printing server side-prompt & don't prompt ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 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

Display called programs in debug

A window/view to display all called programs, functions during a debug session including programs loaded from eglar files.The function should be interactive, i.e. show progress as the debug session is running.The requested option is implementing t...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Memory de-allocation of Library Function variables before leaving the function

We would like to see the automatic de-allocate of the local Library Function Variables before leaving the Function. This would reduce the memory consumption of the CICS Transaction.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

Need a Symparm to reduce default (10x) initialization of Dynamic Array

When EGL is generated to COBOL a definition of Dynamic Array gets initialized by default 10 times. We would like to have a Symbolic Parameter (BuildDescriptor) to reduce this default initialization to less (ex. 1 time) to reduce memory consumption.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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