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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 14, 2010

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including unsigned numeric type to the egl primitive types

Hello EGL developer,
we are an IBM partner and developing Migration Tools for migrating from RPG or Cobol to EGL. We are missing an EGL primitive type for unsigned numeric data like in Cobol.

Of course it would be possible to define an own data item part wich adheres to the Cobol unsigned type, but we think it would be better to include such type to the EGL primitive types. We think that because this is a frequently used data type in Cobol and you could program that type closer to the generated Java Code regarding performance and internal representation of that type. For generating to Cobol you just could use the Cobol unsigned type.

Please keep in mind, that the behavior of that type should adhere to the behavior of the Cobol unsingned type, i.e. that for example assigning a negative value should result in asigning the absolute value of it. In fact you could use the Cobol unsigned type as reference type and program the generated Java for that type to behave exactly like that Cobol type.
kind regards
Andreas Gronert

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 11, 2021

    IBM Business Developer is a continuous delivery offering, and aims to satisfy the needs of a rapidly evolving market segment. Product strategy evolves and requirements are continuously evaluated against that strategy. This RFE has recently been reappraised against the wider product strategy and does not fall into IBMs delivery plans for the next 12 month. Whilst this RFE might be valid and we might look to deliver longer term, this RFE is being rejected at this time.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 10, 2021

    This RFE is more than a decade old. It might not be relevant now. Please create a new RFE if this requirement still exists.This RFE is more than a decade old. It might not be relevant now. Please create a new RFE if this requirement still exists.

  • 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
    |     May 31, 2011

    Dear Sir or Madam,
    would you please write about your plans to implement this unsigned numeric type with egl?
    kind regards
    Andreas Gronert

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 29, 2010

    Thank yor for this suggestion. We expect to expand our support of numeric data types in a future release.

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