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IBM Rational Business Developer

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Problems with EGLAR files in the debugger

Possibility to define an eglar path to the workspace and not the individual project.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Retain (with option to print) results in Remote Search view (RBD & RDp)

Retain search results (Remote Search view), even after the view or the software is closed. Also, allow these saved search results to be shared between developers.Presently, when doing numerous searches (e.g., via "Find String . . ." [FNDSTRPDM] fr...
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Provide Ant task to export an SCA module in ZIP format, with all dependencies

In RAD, there's earExport for exporting EARs and warExport for exporting WARs, upon all of their dependencies. In WID 7.0, a common task would be to export an SCA module in ZIP format, in order to later pass it through serviceDeploy. The ZIP forma...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

JSF message components & EGL sysLib.setError()

The JSF Tag Attributes include errorClass,errorStyle,fatalClass,fatalStyle,infoClass,infoStyle,warnClass,warnStyle that can be associated with h:messages. EGL write to FacesMessage using sysLib.setError(). This method should be enhance to provide ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Need for Optional ICN field in RFE Submission Tool

In Accelerated Value Program (Premium Support), we are starting to see increased value of RFEs submitted. It is very difficult for us to chase RFEs which some of the customers expect us to chase. Especially the potential Customer names seems to be...
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

Add option to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding

Add option to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding Description: The customer requires an option to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding. The reasons are: - Security issue: we use application authorization based on packa...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Add support for single row select for static SQL in EGL generated java code

This RFE is related to RFE 15634. After this RFE is realized, there would be possibile to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding. Than we would like to have function "single row select" implemented.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Need support for 2D drawing, local browser storage, and animation

Technology previews for local browser storage, 2D drawing, and animation have all been made available for EGL in the past (via entries on the EGL community blog). All three of these previews are of great value to the community and extend the capab...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Supprt for move statement in RichUI javascript

As discussed with Jing Qian System test lead of IBM. "BUT we don't support the move statement in JavaScript! Move support for JavaScript sounds like a good RFE to include in 8013. So could you open an RFE for this?"
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Support for global transactions over J2C connections

When involved in a global transaction calls to RPG/COBOL code do not participate in the global transaction resulting in errors.Cfr. PMR 31198,999,?788
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration