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Ant task for creating EGL client interface

We have been trying to write an ant-script to automatically generate all of a web project's generated code (java classes, wsdl's, wsdd's etc.). This works fine.However, the next step is to create/generate the wsdl's EGL client interfaces by using ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Delivered

EGL - Multi-row Insert and Fetch of SQL rows

DB2 V9 offers the capability of RowSet positioning. Essentially for performance reasons it would be nice to include this functionnality in EGL and not having to do develop an externaly defined COBOL program.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Delivered

Drag and Drop feature for services in RUI, just like in JSF – RBD 9.1

In JSF – RBD 9.1, there is an easy way to add services to the UI by just drag and drop. RBD 9.5 onward, JSF support is discontinued. RUI does not have an equivalent functionality. It would be much faster to develop applications if such a feature i...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Delivered

call to COBOL program using CICSCLI.jar file

RUI programs and EGL programs can call COBOL programs having a commarea bigger than 32KB using CICSECI in the link section of the buildDescriptor. But using CICSECI connection doesn't go trough J2C that can be defined on Websphere Application Serv...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

EGL debugger: watchpoints and qualified break points needed

Customers that have migrated from VisualAge Generator to EGL have badly missed watchpoints and qualified breakpoints when using the debugger. It seems as if there are none such advanced debugging facilities available in EGL's debugger. I have hear...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

RUI: Suppress change events after setting values through code.

When we change the value of an input widget in code, Dojo returns a change event, if the new value is different.<br />This can be prevented, see use case.<br />Preventing change events after changing the value in code greatly reduces t...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

ORDER BY makes data service fail

We often generate services to retrieve SQL data from AS/400 using the Data Access Application wizard. The generated services contain several functions amongst which the function to retrieve a list of data which can be specified with the fromTables...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

VSAM files access over TCP/IP [RTC 48137]

When we use RBD version 7.5.1.3 in debug mode, we can access CICS programs and DB2 connections over TCP/IP. But in order to access VSAM files we have to use DFM over SNA and our customers do not accept the idea of using SNA to access VSAM files wh...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 7 Delivered

RRSAF support for Rational Cobol Runtime for z/OS

Rational Cobol Runtime should be changed to support SRRBACK function in RRSAF environment instead of EXEC SQL ROLLBACK. This means there should be an option to define which DB2 environment is used: RRSAF or DSN or two runtime libraries, one for DS...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 7 Delivered

Rich UI - Global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls

Would like to have global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls.In other words, currently, we have to use serviceLib.setHTTPBasicAuthentication on each service call. Would like to set once for a session.All our services are in CICS, so UID a...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered