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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 17, 2014

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 migration of code that runs on WAS 7 (or previous) to WAS 8 (and higher), the migration of Digits Only ([0-9]+$) to Digits Only ([0-9]*$).

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    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
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    Aug 25, 2014

    We don't expect to implement the feature because it's not a feature maintained by RBD, it is a RAD JWL feature. Additionally, the JSF functionality is already deprecated in RBD, we don't expect to do more enhancements. Moreover, there are two workarounds to get over the problem:
    (1)When migrated to a higher WAS server,it's not always 100% compatibility between SUNRI 1.2 and MyFaces 2.0, sometimes an application under SUN RI1.2 can't running well when migrated to MyFaces2.0. When using WAS 8 , switch the JSF implementation to Sun RI (The default implementation in WAS 8 is Apache Myface, but in WAS 7 is Sun RI); Please refer to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/tweb_jsf.html for detail. Sometimes it's very complicated to change the JSF impl in the server because of the cache in the server. Please verify using the following steps:
    a. In the Servers view, right-click on the server and select Administration -> Run administrative console. (If it's disable, open the server properties and change to Run server with resources on Server)
    b. Go to Applications -> WebSphere enterprise application. Click on your application.
    c. In the JSP and JSF options, change the implementation to SunRI1.2. Click OK and then click on Save.
    d. Go to RAD/RBD, and remove the app from the Server in the Servers view.
    e. Go to /profiles//temp and remove all the folders and files.
    f. Add the app again to the Server. (add it not run it)
    g. Open the Administrative Console and verify the SunRI1.2 impl is being used by the app. If not, repeat the procedure until the Server decides to adopt the changes.
    (2)Change the property "Constraint" to "Digits Only(^[0-9]*$)" manually. In java regex expression '*' means zero or more digits '+' means one or more digits