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Support property "closeable" and event "onclose" for DojoDialog

The EGL Rich UI DojoDialog widget used to support the closeable property and the onclose event. These elements were removed by IBM at some point from the EGL DojoDialog wrapper.These are fundamental elements of a dialog dialog box, still fully sup...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Need support for adding tabs to DojoTabContainer without full refresh

The current implementation of DojoTabContainer is subject to a problem that exists with common browsers such as Firefox in that when a tab is added to the container on the fly EVERY tab refreshes its contents. IBM provided a work-around for this t...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Have InfoBus communicate between iFrames

We are using the InfoBus frequently and without problems. However when we try to communicate between ruihandlers running in a different iFrame the InfoBus fails. We also like to have ruihandlers from multiple EARs to be communicating with eachothe...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

RUI: Block user interface while web service call is pending

Lock user interface while Rich UI application one or more web service calls pending.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Duplicate Java files being generated in the referenced projects

If EGL files for ?basic record' and ?sql record' are available in a separate project and is being referenced by one or more other projects, then the Java files corresponding to these EGL files are getting generated in all the referring projects in...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Migrated prepare syntax generates expensive loops [RTC 40352]

Performance enhancement to generated Java to the effect that the implicit SQL statements used to implement EGL I/O statements associated with SQL records should be prepared no more often than is necessary. For implicit delete or replace of the cur...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 7 Not under consideration

generate HTML doc from EGL code

in the menu "project", we have the possibility to generate "javadoc" but EGL developers want to generated "HTML document" for his egl code and not for the generated java code.Is it possible to replace or add for EGL guys a new menu "eglDoc"?
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 5 Not under consideration

Automatic functional test in EGL

when we coding using EGL in RBD, there are no a unit test framework like Junit. But the unit test is important and we expect RBD can automatic generate the test code like Junit framework. this topic have been discussed in this community(http://www...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Modify the default CSS files for RUI

in the CSS file (basic.css) that is being created by default under the RUI project (com.ibm.egl.rui), for some reason, It specifies the margin-right: 18px for the class EglRuiDataGridHeaderLabel .EglRuiDataGridHeaderLabel { overflow: hidden; margi...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

To be able to Catch IMS message switch errors as EGL exceptoin

During IMS transfer to transaction statements a return code from IMS of A4: Security violation detected during processing of either an AUTH call, a CHNG call, or an ISRT on a conversational response.can be issued.This is a valid IMS usage, but EGL...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration