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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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EGL CICS Web Service Client has to use basic HTTP authorization [35160]

We have to send authentication information (a user ID and password)from an EGL CICS Web Services client to Web Services Provider, using basic HTTP authorization (user ID and password are encoded and sent in HTTP Authorization header).
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

RBD RUI has a primitive grid widget hurting sales

I am a tech sale, I present RBD alot. We fail to demo RBD with RUI. Since the RUI grid widget is very primitive. The expected functionality is ease of use as in JSF. Data binding with services and records using GUI.Selling RBD as a RUI builder is ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Fast access to global constants in COBOL

The only way we know to define global constants in EGL is by defining public, i.e. non-private, consts in a library. We are concerned that this does not perform well in COBOL since constants defined in EGL libraries are translated to a COBOL exter...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

request to be able to disable content assist in EGL Editor

EGL content assist might be slow when working on projects migrated from VAG to EGL. It will be very helpful to have preferences similar to the one available for the Java Editor under Java ->Editor -> Content assist -> checkbox "Enable aut...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Invoking J2EELib from EGL Libraries

Currently J2EELIB functions can not be issued from EGL libraries running in J2EE environments. When using layered approach for implementing complex enterprise applications using EGL, each layer is implemented in the form of EGL libraries (e.g. DAO...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

RUI Gateway Single JSP and Enhanced UI Record

Need an enhanced API for VGDataElement and VGUIRecordBean. Need to be able to enumerate the names of the available fields. Need to be able to get the type of each field (VGDataElement))
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

EGL TUI map editor it always opens with terminal size 24 x 80 [RTC 35156]

Environment: Windows Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer Program Version : 7.5.1.4Description.User reports that when using the EGL TUI map editor it always opens with terminal size 24 x 80, even when the map opened has another format e...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Support result sets from stored procedures in EGL get array statements.[32586]

EGL supports several ways of processing the result sets returned by a SQL select statement: Open / get next loop Open / foreach loop Get array Stored procedure calls can also return result sets. These result sets can currently be processed using t...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Caching in the EGL Debugger for searchlist EGL Progs

1.1 Situation while debugging an EGL programAssume these preferences (EGL ? Debug ? Debug Behaviour Mapping ? Called Program): Mapping mode = ?source?Call target = * When a call statement is encountered during debug, it is matched against the debu...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

poor Java Performance on z9 - Generated with RBD 7.5

Environment: z/OS Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer Program Version : 7.5Description. User sees what they describe as very poor Java Performance on z9 - Generated with RBD 7.5 The performance problems concern the JAVA-code on the z9:...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Delivered

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