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Remembering last opened files

At the moment WDz doesn't remember the last opened files by the developer. When the developer closes WDz and starts it again, he cannot see the latest files he was working with. It would be very helpful when WDz would open all the files which were...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Values stored by EGL in request / session / application should be accessible using Java

Values stored in request, session, application scope by EGL handler should be accessible using Java code. Currently this is not possible. Web applications always use request, session etc to store state-data for a user. With the fact that EGL relie...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

CheckStyle support for EGL in RBD

EGL should support some static code analysis tool like CheckStyle, which is already available as a plugin to Eclipse. This will help large projects to automate quality checks for ensuring coding conventions and best practice compliance.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Invoking Stored Procedures Returning Multiple Resultsets

Currently EGL code can not call a stored procedure (SP) which returns multiple result sets. This is a major limitation as Enterprise Modernization team has no control over existing stored procedures of an enterprise application. They need to simpl...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Initialize the commarea input in CICS WS Handler for the omitted and required SOAP request elements

If the Web Services client does not build the complete SOAP request message for the required element, the arbitrary values (invalid data) is passed to the CICS program. So, initialization of commarea in the handler is necessary before put this int...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Not under consideration

Issue warning when we skip generation of dead code

Request to improve EGL validation to verify that every positional get statements (get next, get previous, ...) are following an open statement.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

Use RAD "code completion" without checking out the file

We are using RAD as our IDE. OurJava developers would like to have the code completion option working with out checking out the file which is held in ClearCase under source control.Today, when we use this "Code Completion option, even though we do...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

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