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Sterling Transformation Extender

NCPDP version F6 repeating ECL values.

NCPDP publishes a periodic Telecommunication Standard Version F6© and above Editorial and Best Practices which provides guidance and additional implementation instructions. Version 03 was published in June 2026. In section 3.3 ECL Values there is ...
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance Future consideration

Provide a SWITCH or CASE function

Request to provide a long-missing function in ITX for SWITCH or CASE loop, where a set of evaluations would be considered in order with the first success would return a value and exit the loop. Example: = SWITCH ( UPPERCASE ( Value:Record ), "H" :...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other Future consideration

hipaa compliance check support for EDI X12 824 transaction

ITX healthcare pack currently does not support compliance check for EDI X12 824 transactions. We are using ITX healthcare pack for our implementation and have a requirement to perform type 1 to type 7 compliance check on 824 transactions.
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking Future consideration

Transaction reports

We have upgrading the Partner Manger to ITXA and Presently in the Trading manager we have option to see the transaction report( see attached transaction report for details) we are looking not exact similar functionality but want to check if their ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI Future consideration

ITX lacks full and proper support for X12 Real, specifically interchangeable support exponential real values.

We've run into instance where JSON data has large enough values that some converted over to exponential passed into ITX X12 based maps using the office X12 Type Trees provided by IBM/HCL the translation was successful. However, the output of 2.107...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation Future consideration

Enhance the MQ adapters to allow the Connectivity to Gateway Queue Managers

Due to performance considerations, it's necessary to load balance the high volume loading of queue managers. We need the ability to connect to MQ Gateway queue managers and allow them to facilitate the balancing of data across the multiple queue m...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters Future consideration