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Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 2, 2010

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Dataitems within EGL are not entirally usuable.[RTC 35573]

Dataitems cannot be used when defining constants in EGL
When I define a dataitem (with an EGL source file) as follows:
dataitem Zipcode string end
and I then define a constant based on this dataitem as follows:
const myZipcode Zipcode = "1031HH";
EGL sees this as an error:
"Only primitive types or arrays of primitive types may be used for
constants."
In essence, Zipcode is really a primitive type (a string). This defeats
the purpose of using dataitems (you would really want to hide the
implementation of Zipcode).

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 14, 2010

    This enhancement is now available in RBD 7.5.1.5.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 12, 2010

    This RFE's Headline was changed after submission to reflect the headline of an internal request we were already considering, but will now track here.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 11, 2010

    We agree with this is an unnecessary restriction in the EGL language. In the next 7.5 fix pack, we have removed the restriction, and will allow constants to be defined with the DataItem type.

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