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ITX - Allow Launcher logging and adapter tracing to report milliseconds

Customers are reporting performance issues so support has the customer enable the launcher compound system logging the logs only report hour:minute:second. With maps running quickly based on cpu speeds today, often enough customers are trying to f...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Under review

Cooperative Listener directory permissions

When Launcher starts in cooperative listener mode on RHEL servers a hidden directory is created under each watch point. That dir is named .WTX_<pid>_<hostname>. Each coop listener will have its own one of these hidden dirs. The dirs ar...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Planned for future release

Reset reused workfiles for maps in the Launcher

Reusing workfiles makes map faster as it speeds up the alidation process. However, changes in data mean special care has to be taken to avoid issues for the concerned maps. Currently, one has to manually remove the workfiles after the Launcher was...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Reset Launcher "Black list" for failed messages

Whenever a message triggers a map failure, even if the failure is not related to the message's content, the message is blacklisted by the launcher and will not be trigered again. This avoids "poison messages" but needs a restart to have the messag...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Add Ability To Configure Where Launcher Logs Are Written

We are starting to use the Launcher image to deploy and run Launcher in containers. The Launcher Logs are written to <itx_install_dir>/logs by default, and there is no way to change where these logs are written. So, when the pod/container is...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 2 Functionality already exists

WTX service discloses detail software versions & file system

WTX service discloses detail software versions & file system - Cases - IBM Support The Launcher process uses three TCP/IP ports. The first port is for status, the second port is for monitoring and the third ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 3 Not under consideration

Alternative to +SETALL permissions requirement on IBM MQ Adapter connections using -EQN

IBM MQ Adapter connections often use the -EQN facility to designate an alternate queue from the input -QN so that error messages do not get stuck in the input queue and interfere with message processing over time. The use of -EQN requires the ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Future consideration

Catching informations about WTX maps dynamically at runtime

The product functionality should be enhanced to make it possible for WTX maps to catch following informations dynamically at runtime 1. its own map name2. the associated WTX system, sub system and component to clearly identify the map3. on which i...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Functionality already exists

Enable wildcard MSL with multiple Launchers as with single Launcher

When setting up a single Launcher source directory there is no need to specify which MSL files to run. The single Launcher event will go to the assigned directory and find/run all MSL files found. This is effectively a wild card usage of *.msl. We...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Clean the map cache without restarting launcher

Today every time we need to change a map in launcher environment the launcher has to be restarted because the maps are cached there.It doesn't matter if the maps are used directly in the flow or ran by RUN function. For High Availability productio...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Not under consideration