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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...
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Textfield does not have maxlength attribute [RTC 46271]

The maxlength (from HTML input text) attribute is not supported in the TextField component. I would like to see the maxlength attribute supported by EGL since it is a native HTML attribute on the textfield
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Shift key to implement PF13 - PF24

When deploying on UNIX -platform the Function Keys F13-F24 do not work in the on-line screen on UNIX ie by pressing shift-F13,shift-F24. As advised by RBD development who have input other shortcut keys to implement these functions ie Press Ctrl+S,...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Delivered

Create an API to enable direct lookup of server JNDI names from EGL code

We have multiple JNDI names created for more than 200 client environments the application caters to. We want the ability to a direct lookup of the JNDI instead of having the corresponding 200 resource reference mapping in WEB.xml. This causes an a...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

System library sysVar, vgVar, converseVar should have only one instance in HTTP session

System library sysVar, vgVar, converseVar should have only one instance in HTTP session
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Delivered

Generate Java static final fields for EGL constants [RTC 32247]

Currently, from the following EGL code library constants type BasicLibrary const y41_True unicode(1) = "1"; const y41_False unicode(1) = "0"; const n01_True unicode(1) = "Y"; const n01_False unicode(1) = "N"; ? the followin...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

alteration of the returned result of the EGL function mathlib.precision() (RTC 46267)

Environment: Windows Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer Program Version : 7.5.1.4Description. My EGL program code when running as generated Java with the function precision() returns unexpected results for us when called with paramete...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Copyless call-by-value [RTC 32245]

Copyless call-by-valueIn the current implementation, call-by-value allocates memory for function parameters and call-by-reference does not. Call-by-value must be used if the caller must be sure that the callee does not modify the argument. Moreove...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Dataitems within EGL are not entirally usuable.[RTC 35573]

Dataitems cannot be used when defining constants in EGL When I define a dataitem (with an EGL source file) as follows: dataitem Zipcode string end and I then define a constant based on this dataitem as follows: const myZipcode Zipcode = "1031HH"; ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Provide explicit control over generation of associated Java classes

To be provided ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Lifetime / Persistence of called programs [RTC 36149]

When migrating programs from legacy languages like Cobol or RPG to EGL we often encounter the problem that in all these languages the programmer has control about how long a program stays in memory. - In Cobol the developer just can CANCEL another...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

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