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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...
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Allow SET INITIAL for subrecords

If a field in a structured record is itself a structured record, a SET INITIAL for it is rejected by the EGL parser, even though the purport of such a statement is perfectly clear. Please allow this construct, also for record variables that are ar...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Improve EGL debugger tracing and variable values

We observed some new output when running the EGL debugger within updated RBD v7.5.1.5 after activating additional tracing output (an option advised previously by the RBD lab we always use) that did not happen in prior RBD versions ieCreate a "runu...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

extend scope for resident data tables to Java VM

Dear Sir or Madam,We from PKS company, partner of IBM, are developing RBD extensions for migration of RPG/Cobol programs to EGL. Thereby we are missing the possibility to make data tables in Java resident across multiple users at one server like i...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

equalize the behavior between ?transfer to transaction? and ?transfer to program? statement

We cannot use rununit.properties because we need different files per user. So we are trying to write a userdefined rununit in the Java start program for each user (userBB.properties) and each session. Each user has his own user defined printer fil...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

RBD data access generation extensibility

A client need to extend the features of the generated library. Need to do this for each library manually. We have 2 cases of extension points the client requested.1. Adding authorization check on each data access. Requires adding a call and argume...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

including unsigned numeric type to the egl primitive types

Hello EGL developer,we are an IBM partner and developing Migration Tools for migrating from RPG or Cobol to EGL. We are missing an EGL primitive type for unsigned numeric data like in Cobol. Of course it would be possible to define an own data ite...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Merge webServices client bindings generated by EGL with existing ones

Request to merge webServices client bindings generated by EGL with existing ones.This helps for example to keep a configured JSSE repertoire for web services over SSL on WAS 6.0.
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

RBD data access generation control over generated names

Using data access generation wizard generates names using internal logic. A client want more control over the names. For the following reasons.1. Naming conventions to distinguish sql record types from basic types.2. Naming conventions to distingu...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Top Level Function (TLF) source code needs to be compiled with the containers (program/handler/library) that invoke them

"Top Level Function (TLF) source code needs to be compiled with the containers (program/handler/library) that invoke them. This is because, TLFs can contain references to global data in the container. When they are compiled standalone, the compile...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

EGL CICS Web Service (Provider mode) authentication handler

Enable EGL developer to invoke CICS Web Service (Provider Mode) to process the security token in the SOAP header of the service request. We've done a prototype implementation but I reckon this should come standard with EGL. If you want a copy of t...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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