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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...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

Services - global way to set UID and PWD in debugger

(Services) Would like to have global way to set UID and PWD in debugger (similar to how remote calls are done) Probably depending on: Rich UI - Global way to set UID and PWD on all service calls (88774)
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Delivered

Record assignment in RUI of EGL

FCB(First Commercial Bank) need the function in RUI, when they maintain EGL record. They wish to using statement "move S200MSG_CWS to IRTSWF_SWS byname;", then record IRTSWF_SWS's value will be assign(when fieldName are same in both record).
almost 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Alert Invalid Password

When we generated a EGL program we need a tcp/ip connection with hostname, port number, userid and password. These information are saved in the EGL Build Descriptor options or to userid/password in the EGL Preferences. When we talk about hostname ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

Create an ANT task to generate the WSDL file from an EGL service.

Create an ANT task to generate the WSDL file from an EGL service.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

Rui: Create function on inline widget declaration

A very handy feature in RBD is to right-click and then click "Create function". This only works when widgets are declared separately: btn Button{text = "click me", onClick ::= btn_Click}; b Box{children = [btn]}; But it does not work if you create...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

getCurrentCallStack() to be implemented in libraries

RBD 9.0.1Using the new v90x getCurrentCallStack() sysLib function returns as describes in the documentation when implemented in a program ie"dynamic array of EglCallStack records that provide the currently executing list of programs in the run uni...
about 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Empty DataGrid shows 10 empty records. We only want the header to show and no records.

When a DataGrid has no rows the DataGrid shows 10 empty rows. We would like the DataGrid to show no rows, but only the header. Additional information:- We use RBD 9.0.1- When te code in the below provided 'Use Case' is entered in a ruihandler the ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

CICS transactionID's as program annotations

It should be possible to specify the startTransactionID, restartTransactionID and returnTransaction as program annotations instead of specifying these in builddescriptors and having these tied to program naming standards. The software should use t...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Provide MVC form property for its current validity state

MVC Forms currently have an isValid() and validation() function, but invoking these functions also invoke the ? ?handleValidStateChange_<formName>() function. ? ?It is during ? ?handleValidStateChange_<formName> which can be used to ap...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered