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Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Containers should support logging to filesystem, console, or both.

Our containers need to be configurable via helm to log to either a persistent volume, the console, or both. A lot of our containers today support either console or persistent volume but do not allow both at the same time.
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0

add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Not under consideration

enhanced PARSE function

In order to use the new PARSE function as a replacement for the old RUN(submap) constructs, the PARSE function should have similar behavior as RUN(submap). This essentially requires 2 enhancements: 1.) We need to pass arguments to PARSE like "-F21...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

SPE Codelist enhancement

RFE requirement for SPE Codelist enhancement Problem Statement – We are replacing xref files with ITXA code list so that the WTX map could use code list to perform mapping logic Description –ITX maps in ABC environment currently uses xref file...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Connection manager changes

Currently the connection manager is single threaded over the entire launcher or on an execution group in message broker. one bad server slows everything down as a result. it would be better to make it single threaded over a particular hostname
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Extend the map compile timeout from its current preset which has been set to 120 sec

Currently, the ssftpdeploy process has 120 seconds for the map compile timeout as a preset value and few of our systems are timing out before the completion of deploying the msl. I would like to check on two options to resolve the issue - 1) If th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration

Functions to get internal information from within a running map

For logging/tracing purposes I'd like to be able to get actual information about the mapping/card/function/field I'm currently at. So I can write into a logging about that particular point in the execution. A bit like LASTERRORCODE() or GETRESOURC...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

Current ITX v10.0.x doesn't support Microsoft cluster.

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 3 Not under consideration

ITX maps to invoke as REST APIs both synchronous & asynchronous the only option is to have REDIS caching software however REDIS not in our approved enterprise software list.

Requirements : We see that for ITX maps to invoke as REST APIs both synchronous & asynchronous the only option is to have REDIS caching software however REDIS not in our approved enterprise software list. We would like to have other altern...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration