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Support arbitrary expressions for array initial length declarations

KBC requests that arbitrary positive integer expressions are supported for array initial length declarations, not just literals. It should be possible to write the following code for example, list dnt_map[in0s03_R_47.ipt_Zn.usr_Data.dnm_Tbl_Sze_Cr...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Make labels from SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS for SQL data items visible in egl parts reference-data declarations

In VAG we were retrieving record definitions from SQL. We had to fill description column for each dataitem manually (that was stupid because we already had it in SQL).Contents was visible when expanding application structure. In EGL when program i...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Request to get the HTTP session ID

Customer would like to retrieve the HTTP session ID in EGL. It is possible to store or retrieve data from the session but not to get the ID of the session. It is possible to do it using a Java externalType but customer would like a pure EGL soluti...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Change XMI Defaults for properties

When we create a new Dynamic Web Project with Websphere as ?Target Runtime? environment (see screenshots 2.1), a certain set of default properties are set in Webcontent/WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi (see screenshot 2.2). At KBC, we wish to have differen...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Add support for stateless/stateful properties to EGL webservice wizard (RTC 24781)

Add support for stateful/stateless properties in the EGL WebServices wizards.At the moment the wizard only supports stateful for REST services. If I specify not stateful, it uses the outdated default call interface that requires QEGL on IBM i and ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

Values stored by EGL in request / session / application should be accessible using Java

Values stored in request, session, application scope by EGL handler should be accessible using Java code. Currently this is not possible. Web applications always use request, session etc to store state-data for a user. With the fact that EGL relie...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Enhance EGL Generation possibilities

1. Enhance the ?generate with wizard? so that it can be initialized with the settings of a previous generation (XMLfile that currently can only be used as input for EGLSDK)2. Allow multiple build descriptors to be linked with 1 program3. Allow a s...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

JNDI Lookup Facility

EGL in its current form does not expose APIs for all J2EE standards. Most of the J2EE application requirements mandate the use of some basic J2EE standards like JNDI lookup. JNDI lookup allows to pick up some values / objects from a naming directo...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Availability of all Servlet APIs in J2EELib

J2EELib provides functions for only few APIs from HTTP Servlet specification classes (e.g. Request, Response, Session etc). As EGL uses JSF runtime in UI layer, often the JSF handler needs more APIs from HTTP servlet specification to fulfill some ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Availability of DB Connection Handle

SQLLib.connect() API in EGL does not provide any handle / reference to DB connection. The connection object remains implicit. Connect and disconnect happens transaperently to the developer. Our experience of using EGL for a large, complex project ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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