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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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"waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment

Request for the ability to have a "waiting for server" indicator on TUIs running in the Java environment.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

Option to disable BIND step during Cobol Generation

We would like to see a option to disable the DB2 bind step during generation instead of separating generation and bind. This could be a option on the build part or during the generate with wizard.
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Jasper Reports documentation

We are trying to implement an EGL project with Jasper Reporting and do not find the existing documentation on this topic very explicit in general. Present resources found are: RBD infocenter to Jasper reports via http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/info...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

Be able to import interfaces from Websphere Integration Developer

A Websphere Integration Developer project contains interfaces for Human Tasks.We want to be able to import those interfaces into the RBD project so we can create user inferfaces for those interfaces.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Field ordering in RDp DDS designer

Sort fields by row/column position in DDS source.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

COBOL-Generator - Reenablement Support for COBOL Compiler V2

Customer migrated from VisualAge Generator to EGL and want to use the existing COBOL Compiler for OS/390 and VM V2 (without UNICODE support). Prior to Version 7 of Rational Business Developer the use was possible. Customer would like to have a swi...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Edit data in table-format by using data perspective

For viewing the content of a table we have 2 options (general limitation specified in the preferences->data ?> output ?> limit number of rows retrieved. ) - In the Database Explorer view of the Data perspective, right-click on the table w...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 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 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

JDBC Fetch Size

The ability to influence the Oracle fetchsize. The fetchsize is the amount of logical records that are retrieved when calling Resultset::next() and kept in a buffer for each use of Resultset:next(), until it is empty and filled again. At the java ...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Prevent maximum open cursors exceeded

Make it possible to prevent receiving error ?ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded' at generation of the Java code (@ Build time) When writing a Get statement against Oracle (explicit SQL) sometimes the cursor isn't closed. This due to the abse...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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