Rational® Business Developer V 8.5.1.1 provides multiple EGL-oriented Ant tasks, which you can use in an Ant build file with other Ant tasks defined by Eclipse, Rational Application Developer, and the ant-contrib library. This includes tasks such as generate and deploy so that you can use Ant to build and deploy EGL applications. The Ant Build file can be run from the RBD workbench or as batch command using a headless Eclipse workspace. With headless builds, EGL builds can be managed more efficiently and EGL can support Agile programming better.
For details about the provided Ant tasks, see Ant tasks for headless build. For instructions about how to generate a headless build, see Creating headless EGL build.
Version 8.0.1.5 significantly reduces both the size of the program's load modules and its working storage. Although this memory reduction benefit will be automatic on all COBOL generated environments, it will be especially beneficial on transactional systems such as CICS®, when the ERDSA and EUDSA storage areas are getting large.
Also, programs that are generated with 8.5.1.1 will continue to work with any other prior release programs, but will help to reduce the amount of memory the applications use when executing.
For details on COBOL generation, see Overview of COBOL generation.
Rational Business Developer introduces a new EGL Dojo Mobile programming model in version 8.5.1.1. You can learn how to develop with the EGL Dojo mobile widgets and look up the EGL Dojo mobile widgets API list to learn more about the features.
Rational Business Developer introduces a new Java runtime property: egl.service.rest.exception.debug in version 8.5 and later. The property specifies whether the exceptions returned by EGL REST-RPC services include the greatest possible level of detail.
In the development environment, the default value is true, and the previous runtime behavior is unaffected.
For details on the application server log, see the entry for egl.service.rest.exception.debug in Description of Java runtime properties and http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21612314.