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Passing the output parameters to invoke a service function

All the output parameters of an interface function have to be passed asdummy input parameters when invoking the service if the function has more than 1 output parameter. The function as of the interface looks likefunction testFn(inParm int in, out...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

webservice enableGeneration

webservice enableGeneration property
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

RTL support for RUI widgets

The alignment property of the data grid widget is not working,It always keeps the data left aligned. In the DataGrid widget code (com.ibm.egl.rui.4.3.1/EGLSource/com.ibm.egl.rui.widgets/DataGrid.egl) at line 280columnClass[column] = "EglRuiDataGri...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

suppressChangeEvent on DojoCheckBox and other Dojo-fields

RBD9.5 introduced a property suppressChangeEvent on DojoTextField. This was very useful since we were now able to eliminate a lot of code that would simulate this working when set to true. However, this property seemed to be implemented on text-ba...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmatically.

(RUI) Want to be able to find a field/variable/widget in the DOM Tree programmaticallyThen be able to manipulate the widgetCurrent solution - added attribute and are "looking" for it, but wondered/wanted easier way
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Planned for future release

EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Support substrings with length zero in EGL

EGL supports the concept of substrings by means of the syntax: source[start:end], which returns the substring of source from position start to end, including both start and end position. Currently, when end is less than start, a run-time exception...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Retrieve user and password from HTTP header

We have an EGL service which calls several RPG programs. In order to run these RPG programs under the loggod on user we pass the user and password to the EGL service as parameters.We rather pass the user and password in the HTML header (using Serv...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration