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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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We cannot retreive SQL record definition of temporary table

SQL record - retreive SQL function should work with DB2 temporary tables (type = 'G')
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 2 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.
about 16 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...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Segmented flag must be honored by Web Transactions

The converse statement currently releases all resources such as open cursors, etc... This is a serious problem as it breaks the semantics of ADABAS/Natural applications that are migrated to EGL. This is believed to be a very easy thing to honor - ...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Manipulate element names in wsdl generation [RTC 46269]

We are creating services where we define the request and response messages as basicrecords. In those records we use arrays, and when this is generated to a wsdl the array types are named ...Array. For example : People Person[] will be defined as P...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Unnecessary complex record part names in service interface parts

The EGL service wizard now creates complex names for nested record parts in the interface part of the service, while the service itself uses plain names.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

005f added after any underscore in the jsf variable names

When generating a jsf enabled jsp, if in the EGL jsf handler you add a variable having an underscore in it, and reference such variable from a jsf tag, let's say an input field, you'll see the reference with a 005f after the underscore. Meaning: m...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

EGL handler using an EGL library holds on to global EGL library and the global variables within that library

request to improve performance by handling differently libraries in JSF handlers.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

skip re-generation of unchanged egl source code wiht SDK

EGLSDK always re-generate egl source code which are listed in the command file.Generating unchanged souce code is not necessary becauses it takes much more time.It's a good idea behaving like Java SDK.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 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.
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

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