Golden Code Redmine

07/20/2026

07:59 AM Base Language Feature #4658: OO serialization support

Is there any equivalent to Java's @Externalizable@ in which the 4GL developer can override the serialization/de-seria... Greg Shah

07/17/2026

11:17 AM Conversion Tools Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Octavian: Please add this to our preproc tests. Greg Shah

08:27 AM Database Feature #11526 (WIP): Implement in-memory uniquness validation using Bloom filters

Even for preview, it needs to be workable for multi-tenant. Let's keep going on improvements before merge. Greg Shah

07/16/2026

12:37 PM Database Feature #11467: Improve ImportWorker performance

That is expected since the dump as imported would be in 8859-1 and the database as imported is UTF-8. The import tra... Greg Shah

07:38 AM Database Feature #11467: Improve ImportWorker performance

Teodor Gorghe wrote:
> I am finding a way to validate the import on a *41GB* dump.
Use our export tool to dump th... Greg Shah

10:35 AM Database Support #11633: Reduce manual c3p0 tuning burden across cluster scale changes

I like this a lot. In order to handle load balancing and the natural variability of the number of tenant sessions pe... Greg Shah

07:55 AM Base Language Feature #4658: OO serialization support

Eduard, this is really excellent work!
All of the testcases you used are written as ABLUnit tests and included in ... Greg Shah

07/15/2026

02:45 PM Database Feature #11526: Implement in-memory uniquness validation using Bloom filters

We need to move this ahead. If this is disabled by default, is it safe to merge? Greg Shah

07/14/2026

01:02 PM User Interface Bug #10894 (Closed): Date FILL-IN: Client crash on APPLY '0' after APPLY '?'

Greg Shah

09:29 AM Conversion Tools Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

We have not spent time matching their exact token failures. The more important thing is to ensure that we do fail fo... Greg Shah

07/13/2026

11:35 AM Database Feature #1585 (Closed): add conversion and runtime support for word indexes

Greg Shah

11:34 AM Database Feature #5219: implement native full-text search for word index and CONTAINS support

The idea of this task is to leverage the native database full-text-search capability. It could be implemented for on... Greg Shah

08:57 AM Database Feature #5220 (Closed): extend word index support to SQL Server

Greg Shah

07/10/2026

11:46 AM User Interface Feature #9055 (Closed): server-side processing of client platform dependencies in the UI

Greg Shah

11:46 AM Base Language Feature #4065 (Closed): server-side processing of client platform dependencies

Greg Shah

07/08/2026

07:51 AM Base Language Feature #9767: Support the new VAR statement introduced in Progress 12.x

You're right, we hide that in the existing initializer. Greg Shah

07:37 AM Base Language Feature #9767: Support the new VAR statement introduced in Progress 12.x

The @NUM_LITERAL@ instances need to be under an @LBRACKET@ node, even with a @KW_INIT@. Greg Shah

07/02/2026

01:29 PM Deployment Support #10727: implement a docker image that supports the full range of development processes wi...

I assume you can make and test the changes in a very short amount of time. So why not just do it immediately? Greg Shah

10:59 AM Deployment Support #10727: implement a docker image that supports the full range of development processes wi...

I agree that the postgres port by default should be not exposed. I think this should also be true for debugging port... Greg Shah

07:48 AM Conversion Tools Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

> I can still integrate tests from #4105, #4121, #4207, #4208, #4231 (double check), #4440, #4492, #4782, #4791, #665... Greg Shah

07/01/2026

12:18 PM Documentation Support #9709: Needed: Basic example of configuring separate client and server

Roger Borrello wrote:
> I had to update @tools/docker/docker_build.sh@ as I found the non-PG server image was not be... Greg Shah

09:47 AM Conversion Tools Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

> Greg, I think there's a good reason to go into the related tasks for all those tasks and check if we can find more ... Greg Shah

08:19 AM Database Bug #11588: Implement a dedicated Query implementation for CAN-FIND

From a conversion perspective, I would greatly prefer if we implement this similar to how we implement functions (e.g... Greg Shah

06/30/2026

10:23 AM Conversion Tools Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

In the latest standard workstation, I've added a tool called @bzr-issues@ which can be used to build a list of all ta... Greg Shah

06/29/2026

03:15 PM Conversion Tools Feature #1757: update ANTLR to latest version

A wiki page with guidance on how we migrate from ANTLR2 to ANTLR4 is in [[p2j:ANTLR Migration Guide]]. Greg Shah

09:01 AM Documentation Support #9709: Needed: Basic example of configuring separate client and server

It is probably a good idea for both you and myself to review. Greg Shah

06/25/2026

02:35 PM Runtime Infrastructure Bug #11515: Patching NCURSES Using Static Linking on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Why are you changing the naming convention? Please rename the patch files to match the convention used for the older... Greg Shah

12:02 PM Runtime Infrastructure Bug #11515: Patching NCURSES Using Static Linking on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat)

You have sufficient rights on projsrv01 to do it. Greg Shah

06/24/2026

02:00 PM Documentation Support #9709: Needed: Basic example of configuring separate client and server

Code Review Task branch 9709e Revisions 16625 through 16651
Overall, the changes look reasonable.
In @HostsMana... Greg Shah

05:49 AM Documentation Support #9709 (Review): Needed: Basic example of configuring separate client and server

Can this be set to 100%? Greg Shah

10:06 AM Conversion Tools Feature #6320: sharded schemata

Yes, using a per-module namespace would be a way to solve the issue I noted in #6320-5. Greg Shah

09:21 AM Documentation Support #11567: spawning diagram updates

We need to update the [[p2j:Web_Client_Setup#Under-The-Hood|spawning diagrams]] with the following changes in mind:
... Greg Shah

09:17 AM Documentation Support #11567 (New): spawning diagram updates

Greg Shah

06/23/2026

08:47 AM Testing Feature #11562: [Lyra] Multi-node tests playback

Could we expose the diagnostics tooling as admin REST APIs in the FWD server? That would allow the support to be dis... Greg Shah

08:33 AM Testing Feature #11562: [Lyra] Multi-node tests playback

If we indeed can effectively integrate and use Artillery, I'd prefer to do that instead of "recreating the wheel". I... Greg Shah

08:31 AM Testing Feature #11562: [Lyra] Multi-node tests playback

Gemini chat output:
h2. Prompt 1
I'm considering a toolset for implementing load testing for my web application... Greg Shah