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XML Processing Support

As XML is a defacto standard for distributed enterprise application communication, EGL should provide complete in-built support for XML processing. This includes parsing, validating, transforming, querying XML documents. Currently EGL only support...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 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

Optimzing EGL pagination for large tables

EGL data table (UI) component supports in-memory pagination which requires all records to be fetched in an EGL array beforehand, and then paginates over that array. If a table has millions of records, all of them can not be fetched in one array an...
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

Cancel On Page Transition User Exit

Our JSF application architecture defines two types of pages: a) Main pages b) Pop-upsThe architecture requires that main-page bean state be saved in session across invocation of a pop-up, but not when transitioning to another main page. This canno...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 7 Not under consideration

Need easy way to enter some data in hex on expression of breakpoints

When entering data in the EXPRESSION field on the optional parameters panel for a BREAKPOINT I don't have an easy way of entering just one byte of a 20 byte value that is a non displayable hex value. Say I want the expression to be: CARD="ALL CHAR...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 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

Allow the generated CEEUOPT DebugTool option to be customised

The CEEXOPT generated macro contains standard settings that are not always appropriate, for example, test level (ALL although ERROR is sometimes required; the default TCPIP address may be incorrect).
almost 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration