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IBM Rational Business Developer

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Passphrase support for Rational Business Developer

Passphrase to generate the EGL source to COBOL is not supported using RBD 9.6
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

Support of PhoneGap / Apache Cordova

With the Mobile preview: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL%20Mobile%20Web%20Preview you can create Mobile Websites. But when you want to make use of hardwa...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Official version of Dojo Mobile components

We want to develop mobile web applications. Currently this can only be done with a preview of the Dojo Mobile components: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

64-bit RBD debugger and Remote VSAM; Support for Z/VSE SAM ESDS files in VSEDDM and VSE connector

This RFE contains three items. 1) Z/VSE SAM ESDS support to RBD's remote VSAM access (via VSEDDM and VCS)3) Possibility to select which VSE Connector's port VSEDDM is using2) VSEDDM support for 64-bit RBD
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Ability to call unwrapped SOAP service

Document Literal unwrapped services are not supported by the EGL Client Interface wizard in RBD. See attached files for an example of a Document Literal unwrapped service.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Delivered

Add WebSphere Application Server 9 as an available server target runtime.

Add WebSphere Application Server 9 as an available server target runtime.
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Delivered

Filteringselect dojo widget

We are missing the dojo component FilteringSelect in RBD. Availability of this widget would provide great improvement when picking restricted values from a combobox, combined with typing to filter the values.At this moment this can only be done th...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

Provide additional Dojo Mobile capabilities

Rational Business Developer release 9.0.1 brought us the first officially supported Dojo Mobile capabilities in EGL. It was a great start. Additional capabilities are needed before software developers can utilize EGL to develop commercial products...
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

RBD/EGL support for DB2 for z/OS XML columns

RBD/EGL doesn't support DB2 for z/OS XML column type. This represents a significant obstacle for EGL developers to integrate their appliactions with DB2 objects used by Websphere/java appliactions.
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Delivered

Consume REST services with non EGL applications in RBD

We have been trying to understand how to consume REST services with non EGL applications in RBD. To this end we raised a support case (PMR#81172,500,624) to establish how to achieve this and were informed that EGL REST services are only consumable...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 7 Delivered