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EDT:EGL Language conversion

Revision as of 19:51, 21 September 2011 by jvincens.us.ibm.com (Talk | contribs)

EGL language conversion consideration from RBD/EGLCE

RBD/EGL CE EDT
Called program Not supported
DataItem,
Stand alone (top level) function
Not supported right now
Datatable,
Structured Record,
Form,
FormGroup
Not supported
Nullable
RBD/EGL CE EDT
Default is inout Default is inout for value type

Default is in for reference type

RBD/EGL CE EDT
time replaced with timestamp
interval Not Supported right now, no replacement
Money, num, bin
use Decimal
RBD/EGL CE EDT
system libraries all needs to be fully qualified with library name
 i.e. sysLib, dateTimeLib, serviceLib, xmlLib...etc.
currentTimeStamp()
dateTimeLib.currentTimeStamp()



RBD/EGL CE EDT
call host program

call local program

Not supported right now
RBD/EGL CE EDT
matches no longer an operator, have to use String matchesPattern() function instead
like no longer an operator, have to use String isLike function instead
bitwise operators support for int types only. RBD supports SmallInt as well
RBD/EGL CE EDT
basicLibrary no more basicLibrary
annotation on Library no annotation is supported on library
RuntimeException
no more RuntimeException, use AnyException
IndexOutOfBoundException
InvalidIndexException
PGM includeReferencedFunctions=yes
top level function are not supported
PGM allowUnqualifiedItemReferences = yes
must fully qualify part names
XMLStructure = xmlStructurekind
XMLValue {kind = xmlStructurekind.
FORMName

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