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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 1, 2009

RELATED IDEAS

Add support for stateless/stateful properties to EGL webservice wizard (RTC 24781)

Add support for stateful/stateless properties in the EGL WebServices wizards.
At the moment the wizard only supports stateful for REST services. If I specify not stateful, it uses the outdated default call interface that requires QEGL on IBM i and the EGL specific CL program in the library containing the called program. It also doesn't adhere to the library list that is set for the job by the system with job descriptions.

The SOAP services only supports the outdated call interface which is even worse.
Customers could use the RDi web service wizard, but the EGL web services wizard is doing a great job in translating the data structures from Program call interfaces into records in EGL. The EGL webServices wizard is brilliant in making it easy to get the parameters right for EGL consumption, which the RDi webServices wizard doesn't do.
We need support for these properties to fully support calling IBM i programs from RUI thru services. I already had a couple of customers running into this wondering why they needed QEGL on the system when calling their programs. The properties are already implemented in the EGL call to IBM i program.,
I think we can make this a lot easier for EGL customers and minimize the hurdles to get to their IBM i programs.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     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 9, 2021

    This RFE is more than a decade old. It might not be relevant now. Please create a new RFE if this requirement is not yet addressed in the product and it 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
    |     Feb 10, 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
    |     Feb 10, 2010

    The status for this requirement has been down graded from In Plan to Candidate. Development still agrees that it would be a good feature, but it is not currently in our near-term plans.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 11, 2009

    Thank you for this input. We agree with this requirement, and hope to implement it in the near term.

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