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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 8, 2010

RELATED IDEAS

Suppress empty entries returned by program call service

With the service wizard in EGL you can quickly create SOAP/RESTful services to do RPG program calls.
However when the output parameter list of the RPG program contains repeating groups also all empty groups are sent in JSON format to the EGL GUI.

In the RDi tooling to create SOAP services you could use the errorCount value to determine how many groups to send.
We would like to have a way in EGL to suppress those empty groups.

Idea priority High
  • 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
    |     Oct 27, 2010

    We are changing the status of this request to Rejected because it is unlikely to be implemented in the next two years. Users can implement this within their own applications by creating a service to determine how many rows of data exist.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 25, 2010

    Thank you for this suggestion. We agree that this would be good function to be provided by the EGL language. We will consider this enhancement as a candidate in planning for a future release.

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