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Read and write CSV files in other encoding

We would like to have a encoding property to associate with a CSV file. Now, a CSV file is assumed to have the system encoding, both for reading and writing.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Support more CICS command in EGL

Now EGL can generate some CICS commands, but not all CICS commands are supported. Good to have more CICS commands supported in EGL. The support could be like below: execute #CICS{ LOAD PROGRAM("BA2DNYTB") ENTRY(:TABL) };
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Support "get next" for DB2 Multiple ROW FETCH in COBOLGen

Support below scenario for DB2 multiple fetch. employees employeeRecordEGLDB2[0]{staticRowSetSize = 10};//this generates static array with len=10 in cobol try Open abc with #sql{ select eID, uName, PASSWORD, fName, lName, office, sex, EMai...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

EGL takes more than 30 seconds in LobLib.loadBlobFromFile

When trying to use the function LobLib.loadBlobFromFile it takes too much time. When files are large, like 30Mb, it can take more than 5 minutes. Calling java from EGL to load the file takes only 150ms I'm guessing the problem lies in the function...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Add the possibility to edit a widget thru the graphical designer

When you want to create a RUI handler you can use the graphical editor. With version 8 is further improved, but is not possible to edit a widget. You need to create a RUI Handler, design it and then change in the source the type from RUIHandler to...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

EGL RUI- "Create onEvent functions" on context click

It would be nice to have a RUI "Create onEvent Functions" fast functionality when writting code in RBD "source mode" (not just in design). Like with service calls: there you can (when in source mode) right click on the function name written after ...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Full UTF-support for CICS WebServices

additional information see PMR 48841,050,618 for RDz there seems to be a workaround availabe:http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0907&L=cics-l&P=25336 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=269880 We urgentl...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Support for general properties file in EGL Rich UI like ResourceBundle in Java

During deployment, the HTML file created for a RUI application contains a static link to a properties file, with an extension that matches the specific locale that was specified for the HTML file. At runtime, the browser is requesting this file di...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Delivered

Map EGL BasicRecords to java byte arrays when calling ExternalType functions.

Provide a way to pass EGL structured records to java when calling External Type functions.EGL BasicRecords should be mapped to java byte arrays (or java.nio.ByteBuffer instances wrapping them) JavaLib.invoke supports passing basicRecords as parame...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

Batching update and insert statements

Batching insert and update statements is a technique available in Java for reducing the number of database calls. Unfortunately, this technique is not available in EGL.java.sql.PreparedStatement's addBatch() method adds a set of parameters to a ba...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

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