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Ability to "configure" the location of files created in the ITX Design Studio directory

The "IBM Sterling Transformation Extender Design Studio" application writes a log file in the root directory of the installation folder. Example is the "ttmaker.log" generated when we import a Type Tree through the XML Schema Importer. IDEA: Abili...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Enhanced functional maps navigation in studio

In complex mappings, it is sometimes hard to navigate across multiple levels of functional maps. Developers' life would be easiser if they could get back to the place where they were before going to a given function map
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

JSON Schema Import Support on Design Studio

If we can get the JSON Schema Importer on Design Studio, we dont need to be dependant on JSON fil which must contain all data as per the schema again.
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Need Design Studio in Linux environment to support IIB mqsicreatebar command on Linux to build applications containing ITX v9

Need Design Studio in Linux environment to support IIB mqsicreatebar command on Linux to build applications containing ITX v9, as suggested by Level 2 Technical Support for IBM Transformation Extender (TX).
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Support SFTP as a file transfer option for deployments from IFD

My IT shop has moved away from FTP in favor of SFTP for all internal file transfers between servers. The Integration Flow Designer (IFD) within the WTX Design Studio only supports FTP as the sole file transfer protocol when utilizing the deploymen...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

add finctions to support Timezone in ITX

ITX lacks in Timezone based functions. we require functions to support 1) get current time in timezone2) get current time in UTC3) covert input timestamp to timezone.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered

Need a "LOOKDOWN" function to find the last object in a series

WTX provides a LOOKUP function to find the first occurence in a series matching a given condition. In some case, it is needed to find the LAST one, and "reversing" the series is not always practical (e.g. : if you want both the first and last obje...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Support for streams in all adapters

New adapters like Excel and PDF are introduced. However they don't have options to stream data to them. This request is to enhance adapters so they support streams by default.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered

map sources to be stored in a documented format

Currently the maps and trees sources are stored in a binary format with optional export to a delimited xml-like format. The request is for ITX to switch to the human readable format as default so rules in maps and tree elements can be easily searc...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered

deploy (Integration Flow Designer + sdeploy.exe) only support FTP. Can support for SFTP be added ?

We are working with WTX 8.4.1 with launcher on AIX. To deploy from Windows to AIX only FTP is supported in both sdeploy.exe and Integration Flow Designer. It would be more secure if SFTP could be chosen as protocol for transferring .mmc,.msl and u...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered