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Availability of EGL Grammar

RBDe itself does not come with any feature to automate static code analysis for EGL, which is an extremely important feature. At a minimum, EGL grammar can be made available for customers, whereby they can explore options to use it with open sourc...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

An option to create empty SAMDS output files (RBD 9.11 / Generation for VSE)

EGL doesn't provide a method to create empty output files, whereas in native Cobol, output file is created within the open statement. In a mixed environment (EGL, native Cobol, CA Easytrieve) we have, this shortage in EGL causes extra logic to be ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Planned for future release

CDATA-section support when using webservices.

Sending binary data through a webservice is not possible. The webservice will crash. Also, our users regularly seem to manage to enter illegal characters which after being sent or received by a webservice will make the webservice crash. Adding the...
about 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Planned for future release

Add Digits Only with empty constraint

In the Page Designer, for Input fields, add a valid constraint value to the drop-down list: Digits Only ([0-9]*$). Or, otherwise handle the difference in how the JSF constraint is treated in WAS 8 and higher, vs. WAS 7 and prior. Also, add to the ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

SunRI1.2 implementation jar is not picked up by WAS 8.5 Classpath Container

com.ibm.ws.jsf.RI1_2.jar is not picked up by WAS 8.5 Classpath Container automatically in RBD9. Workaround is to add this JAR in applications class path (within WEB-INF/lib) which i don't feel is correct.
about 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Print out the EGL source code with execution order

The customer migrated from CSP to EGL using VAGen and found the source code is generated by function name order instead of execution order. The customer asks if RBD can provide the feature: Print out the EGL source code with execution order.
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

JSF message components & EGL sysLib.setError()

The JSF Tag Attributes include errorClass,errorStyle,fatalClass,fatalStyle,infoClass,infoStyle,warnClass,warnStyle that can be associated with h:messages. EGL write to FacesMessage using sysLib.setError(). This method should be enhance to provide ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Provide a interface for using debug as

Need a interface to call the debug as functionality in RBD in order that customer can use the debug as in their plug-in
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Add support for single row select for static SQL in EGL generated java code

This RFE is related to RFE 15634. After this RFE is realized, there would be possibile to generate EGL SQL Java code with static SQL binding. Than we would like to have function "single row select" implemented. With this solution we can improve se...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Exception Handling with 8.5.1 RBD

Need to add this property by default with RBD version's In RBD 8.5( and within updated v8.0.1.x versions) a new runtime property egl.service.rest.exception.debug was introduced for security reasons: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rbdhelp/v8r5m0...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

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