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RTL support for RUI widgets

The alignment property of the data grid widget is not working,It always keeps the data left aligned. In the DataGrid widget code (com.ibm.egl.rui.4.3.1/EGLSource/com.ibm.egl.rui.widgets/DataGrid.egl) at line 280columnClass[column] = "EglRuiDataGri...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Modify the default CSS files for RUI

in the CSS file (basic.css) that is being created by default under the RUI project (com.ibm.egl.rui), for some reason, It specifies the margin-right: 18px for the class EglRuiDataGridHeaderLabel .EglRuiDataGridHeaderLabel { overflow: hidden; margi...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

suppressChangeEvent on DojoCheckBox and other Dojo-fields

RBD9.5 introduced a property suppressChangeEvent on DojoTextField. This was very useful since we were now able to eliminate a lot of code that would simulate this working when set to true. However, this property seemed to be implemented on text-ba...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

To be able to Catch IMS message switch errors as EGL exceptoin

During IMS transfer to transaction statements a return code from IMS of A4: Security violation detected during processing of either an AUTH call, a CHNG call, or an ISRT on a conversational response.can be issued.This is a valid IMS usage, but EGL...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 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

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmatically.

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmaticallyThen be able to manipulate the widgetCurrent solution - added attribute and are "looking" for it, but wondered/wanted easier way
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

An option to create empty SAMDS output files (RBD 9.11 / Generation for VSE)

EGL doesn't provide a method to create empty output files, whereas in native Cobol, output file is created within the open statement. In a mixed environment (EGL, native Cobol, CA Easytrieve) we have, this shortage in EGL causes extra logic to be ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Planned for future release

Debug EGL code invoked from any language

It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Planned for future release

CDATA-section support when using webservices.

Sending binary data through a webservice is not possible. The webservice will crash. Also, our users regularly seem to manage to enter illegal characters which after being sent or received by a webservice will make the webservice crash. Adding the...
about 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Planned for future release

RBD EGL Debug listener to be launched from IDEs other than VAGEN

IBM developed and EGL Debug Listener with the request of Halkbank. We can do End to End debugging from VAGEN GUI to EGL in RBD and back to VAGEN GUI. We want to have this facility for other IDEs also
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration