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Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
about 9 hours ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Submitted

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version being used in ITX11 to latest mainstream version of 2023 and version after that. The two version currently in use are considered end of life by Microsoft.
19 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Planned for future release

Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Sample Data for NCPDP D.0 all types

We would like to get some sample data for NCPDP D.0 all types, or a functionality to create proper sample data which aligns with all the component rules and restrictions.
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

generate a PDF file with the images and tables using the details in the received input file.

PDF adapter needs more power to generate pdf files with images and tables using the data from the input file/message.
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Add JDBC importer to Design Studio(Eclipse) or Database interface Designer

The only way to import a typetree for JDBC adapter, is to call an external java command line com.hcl.hip.tools.adapterdriver.TreeImporter for the adapter com.hcl.hip.adapters.m4jdbc. This is not a user friendly solution.
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement for R11 and R41 rules

Rule Type 11 is checking subelement values, but doesn’t return the bad value if no match. We wanted to populate the bad value as Data Content in Tack.html. As of now, there are no rules that could be used in this case. We need an enhancement for t...

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration