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CICS transactionID's as program annotations

It should be possible to specify the startTransactionID, restartTransactionID and returnTransaction as program annotations instead of specifying these in builddescriptors and having these tied to program naming standards. The software should use t...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Change dialog box for SQL Validate credentials entry

RBD v8.5.1 ( and previous versions)Danske Bank have seen when implementing an SQL validate from the EGL editor on a SQL record or a SQL statement that when they have not saved their datasource credentials a popup dialog is displayed to enter the a...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

Provide MVC form property for its current validity state

MVC Forms currently have an isValid() and validation() function, but invoking these functions also invoke the ? ?handleValidStateChange_<formName>() function. ? ?It is during ? ?handleValidStateChange_<formName> which can be used to ap...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

When importing a WSDL interface, set string maxlen from XSD settings

When importing a WSDL as EGL interface, set the maxLen property of string attributes according to the value in the XSD type, if available. Combined with RFE 39245, this removes manual actions to set the maximum length of string input elements when...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

RUI: Suppress change events after setting values through code.

When we change the value of an input widget in code, Dojo returns a change event, if the new value is different.<br />This can be prevented, see use case.<br />Preventing change events after changing the value in code greatly reduces t...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

RUI designer: additional replacement variables for digits and string length

I need replacement variables to use in the VE data templates that would give me the number of digits and decimals for number fields and max length for string fields. That information would come from the actual fields of the record being dragged on...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

EGLdoc style description for functions

We would like to be able to specify a description on functions and programs that will be visible to developers when using "code complete" When using code complete on a library, the list of functions in the library is displayed. When selecting a fu...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 3 Delivered

Deploy on CICSTS5.1 using new integrated WAS v8.5 Liberty profile

CICS TS v5.1 has incorporated the WAS v8.5 Liberty profile. It should therefore be possible to deploy EGL web transaction GatewayServlet, java wrappers and corresponding JSP's in WAS on CICSTS.This will eliminate both the WAS and CTG (if EGL is de...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 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

Rich UI Editor - Folding - option Collapse All is missing

RBD, Rich UI Editor, *.egl sourceRight click on left border in source editor tab (dark grey bar), Select option Folding, shows options [ExpandAll, Expand, Collapse] Please add option Collapse AllThis feature will add value for analysing/developing...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered