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IBM Rational Business Developer

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Filteringselect dojo widget

We are missing the dojo component FilteringSelect in RBD. Availability of this widget would provide great improvement when picking restricted values from a combobox, combined with typing to filter the values.At this moment this can only be done th...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Support of PhoneGap / Apache Cordova

With the Mobile preview: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL%20Mobile%20Web%20Preview you can create Mobile Websites. But when you want to make use of hardwa...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Official version of Dojo Mobile components

We want to develop mobile web applications. Currently this can only be done with a preview of the Dojo Mobile components: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 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...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Validation of numeric field

We need a fix so we are able to validate if a packed field contains valid characters. I.e. validate if a field is numeric. The sourcecode will be generated to zOS/Cobol
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

RBD VE - RFE - New widget should be initialized with empty layout data

See attached PDF for detailed description and a sample project.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Delivered

"optimize build order" as an ANT-task

If one EGL-project depends on (references parts in) another project, you need to build the dependent project after the other project. In the workbench this can be achieved using the "optimize build order" menu option.When creating a workspace dyna...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Add a configuration setting in COBOLRuntime for the default value of VGVar.handleOverflow

The default value of VGVar.handleOverflow is 1 in EGL program, this value should be configurable in COBOLRuntime, add a configuration setting in COBOLRuntime for the default value of VGVar.handleOverflow.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Problems with EGLAR files in the debugger

Debugging with eglar files the debugger prompts for which program to load if found more than once.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Delivered

Problems with EGLAR files in the debugger

Debugging with eglar files the debugger should ignore programs and functions in eglar files.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Delivered