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EGL enabling Adapter support for Worklight

For EGL being the business language it would be good to have an EGL like interface to Worklight Mobile clients. This would be a good integration.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 5 Not under consideration

More granular parts as result of WSDL service skeleton creation

When creating a EGL service skeleton from a WSDL file it would be much better to have EGL files for each separate part (records and data items). The separate parts should not be combined together in a small number of large files (without knowing w...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Callback mechanism when datagrid detects a size of 0 when rendering children which have data

When a webservice call is executed, meanwhile the widget which did the action can be closed/changed by another widget (datagrid to detail and back for example) or can be made unvisible (when using a tab mechanism for example). When the webservice ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Better way to copy records without having connections between them

As described in PMR#50724,211,788, there is a problem with passing array variables to functions. Even when these variables are copied to another record, there is still a link with the original array until this array is initialized. Thanks to Mark ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Display called programs in debug

A window/view to display all called programs, functions during a debug session including programs loaded from eglar files.The function should be interactive, i.e. show progress as the debug session is running.The requested option is implementing t...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

RBD EGL Source format function doesn't wrap comment line that over 80 columns

The EGL source format function (CTRL+SHIFT+F in EGL Editor) doesn't wrap comment line that over 80 columns.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

show executing code in debug

System: Product RBD 8.5Actor: Program Developers Description: during debugging of EGL porgrams in the RBD Debug perspective, one cannot know what the program is doing in between map converses. It could be in DB2 CICS or program logic and the progr...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Memory de-allocation of Library Function variables before leaving the function

We would like to see the automatic de-allocate of the local Library Function Variables before leaving the Function. This would reduce the memory consumption of the CICS Transaction.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

Need a Symparm to reduce default (10x) initialization of Dynamic Array

When EGL is generated to COBOL a definition of Dynamic Array gets initialized by default 10 times. We would like to have a Symbolic Parameter (BuildDescriptor) to reduce this default initialization to less (ex. 1 time) to reduce memory consumption.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EGL and calling stored procedures with result set

EGL should support SP execution with multiple result set.
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration