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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
about 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Support for enumerations in EGL

There's a need to be able to add enumerations in the EGL language so proper parameters can be defined in functions which forces the developer to pass predefined values.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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...
about 14 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...
about 14 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...
about 14 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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

RBD 無法指定 EGL 代碼以外的 MQ TCP/IP 連接屬性,希望能由EGL Build Descriptor CallLink Elements定義MQ相關屬性

在原有VAGen MQ應用程式需要Linkage Options:mqic32.lkg來運行 mqic32.lkg內容:calllink applname=elaq* linktype=dynamic dllname=csomqc32 bitmode=32 parmform=oslink 由VAGen轉EGL時RBD無法於EGL Build Descriptor Call Link做設定,訪問MQ Server會失敗不認得需於程式新增MQEnvironment物件指定相關MQ TCP/IP...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Enable multiple EGL default target system build descriptors

In the EGL file Properties, in the group EGL Default Build Descriptors, allow multiple build descriptors in the settings Target system build descriptors, when selecting Specify default build descriptor values for this resource.
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Planned for future release