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JNDI Lookup Facility

EGL in its current form does not expose APIs for all J2EE standards. Most of the J2EE application requirements mandate the use of some basic J2EE standards like JNDI lookup. JNDI lookup allows to pick up some values / objects from a naming directo...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Availability of all Servlet APIs in J2EELib

J2EELib provides functions for only few APIs from HTTP Servlet specification classes (e.g. Request, Response, Session etc). As EGL uses JSF runtime in UI layer, often the JSF handler needs more APIs from HTTP servlet specification to fulfill some ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Availability of DB Connection Handle

SQLLib.connect() API in EGL does not provide any handle / reference to DB connection. The connection object remains implicit. Connect and disconnect happens transaperently to the developer. Our experience of using EGL for a large, complex project ...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

EIM support for RPG programs called from EGL

We need EGL to have the ability to provide access to server-based RPGLE programs with Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) authentication.
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

Bulk generation.

It should be possible to create generation lists to be used for bulk generation.As is, it is nearly impossible to manage a large EGL developer environment because the deployment manager must find and chose each and every item being part of a release.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL Rich UI: Revise Organize Imports dialog

In the Organize Imports dialog, the egl.rui.widgets should precede those for DoJo, Silverlight, and other technologies. (In relation to Button, DoJo.widgets.Button is displayed first.) Also, one entry should be highlighted at all times.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

Use of unqualified objects in SQL-based triggers

When connecting to db2 on our iSeries we are used to using jt400/jdbc property naming=system, which enables us to use unqualified objects like tables, stored procedures and such. This brings great flexibility. When a trigger containing unqualified...
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Quick Connect Bar

We disable the Quick Connect Bar via GPO. We need these ADM files to be converted to ADMX and ADML format.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Cloud Extender service account

service account linked to CE service is not showing fully qualified domain name, it is truncated.Please look into Case number TS004365864 for details.
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Needs support for OIDC

The DBB server can be configured with OIDC and accessed from a Web browser but the DBB toolkit on z/OS fails to connect to it with the below error: Caught: com.ibm.dbb.repository.ConnectionException: BGZTK0034E Attempting to create build result Te...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration