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    EGL debugger: improvement for variable content tracking

    Version 7.0.1 adds a "find facility" to the variables view in debug mode. But retrieving the content of a variable still is not comfortable for the developer.He still needs the fully qualified variable name to get the desired information. Programs...
    about 17 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

    Soap v1.2 support

    When consuming WSDL files in EGL, the RBD environment will complain if the soap protocol is 1.2. We would like to be able to consume soap 1.2 WSDL's into the EGL environment.
    about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

    Nullable records in service requests

    When a parent record contains a child record which is nullable, you have to explicitly set the child record to non-null (using the 'new' keyword). If you forget this and send this parent record to a service, the value in the child record do not ma...
    over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Delivered

    Need a complete Rich UI sample

    A complete EGL Rich UI sample is missing with:- UI developed with EGL Rich UI- business logic developed with EGL (either Java or COBOL generated) The available samples are often with only one screen https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperwo...
    almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

    Circumvent 64K limit in Java

    It is possible to generate large EGL functions and records to Java without any errors.No validation errors (red x'es) will be displayed for large parts.But the Java compilation will fail if the byte code for a Java class exceeds 64Kbytes.As it is ...
    about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 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...
    about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

    EGL Archive (EGLAR) file for dependent projects

    We are developing a large-size web application (1600+ screens and 1600 tables) using EGL and RBDe. Due to layered nature of the application architecture and screen-specific requirements, the number of files in project is further multiplied. Effect...
    about 17 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

    Support substrings with length zero in EGL

    EGL supports the concept of substrings by means of the syntax: source[start:end], which returns the substring of source from position start to end, including both start and end position. Currently, when end is less than start, a run-time exception...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

    Support for BLOBs / CLOBs in the EGL

    We were asked by Alex Ge from IBM Cloud support team to raise this RFE. He provided a different PMR#30253,101,616 See PMR 06074 999 616 for his message. To provide support for BLOBs / CLOBs in the EGL generated COBOL for zSeries.Client has already...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

    Responsive EGL Datagrid component

    Make RichUI Components/Widget ready for responsive design.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Delivered

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