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Improve the ELAD message more accurate in EGL V8

EGL V6 has more accurate ELAD message, such as V6 provides more details for SQL error in ELAD. But EGL V8 doesn't include as much details as EGL V6 in ELAD. Improve the EGL V8 ELAD message to EGL V6 level.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL - GET DIAGNOSTICS statement

We want support in EGL for the GET DIAGNOSTICS statement. EGL has the basic ROWSET processing, but doesn'n implement the GET DIAGNOSTICS support.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Indent Guide

I should be possible via e.g. an Indent Guide to visualize the different blocks of code in a program. Furthermore it should be possible to collapse and expand the blocks of code by pushing a ?plus sign?. Currently only comments can be collapsed an...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Option to check, return the value of all field attributes

We would like the enhancement where there is a mechanism within RBD/EGL to check, return the value of a green screen's field attributes.
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

EGL Data Wizard provide functionality for returning auto-generated column values on the AddXXXX functions.

I would like to see the EGL Data Wizard provide functionality for returning auto-generated column values on the AddXXXX functions. Presently, the wizard only allows you to mark a column as Read Only to prevent the generated code from trying to mai...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Smarter deployment for multiple EARs

This RFE is related to RFE no. RATLC01512472.Will be great if we can separate the common components (fda7.jar, dojo libraries, egl.js, etc.) in a global package (possibly a .jar) and deploy it globally visible to a lot of applications, each one de...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Convert all sql words in #sql statement to upper case

If we have Half Width Katakana in our EGL literals and lower case sql keywords, we must currently rewrite our EGL source code to change the Half Width Katakana to normal width, or change our lower case SQL keywords into upper case, to avoid compil...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Batch Migration RBD 7.1.0.5 -> RBD 8.0.1.1

Check the possibility to create a automated batch migration between version RBD 7.1.0.5 and RBD 8.0.1.1 A manually migration of all source will take a lot of time for a user (with interaction) As discussed on call with Paul Hoffman there could be ...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Create new runtime module returning microseconds when invoking dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp()

Currently the dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp() function returns a timestamp in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:FFFFFF. Unfortunately the fraction part does not return microseconds even that the format indicates this. Instead only milliseconds is retu...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

AnyHandler, AnyService, AnyInterface

We want to implement some generic frameworks and for this it is necessary to pass multiple RUIHandler and Service parts to a common set of functions. Currently there is no 'AnyHandler' or 'AnyService' type in the EGL language, which means that the...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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