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Support for JSON schema : natively and type tree Importer

Currently the ITX product is designed to be used with JSON data, and not the JSON schema (Native and Importer). Example : "age": { "$ref": "secondary.json#/properties/age"} With more systems adapting to JSON based message transformation and use sw...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 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
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

SFTP Connector for ITX

It's impossible to do SFTP (FTP over SSH) with FTP adapter with ITX 9.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 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).
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Oracle 12.2 support

This idea is rather obvious. We need support for Oracle 12.2. The current compatibility list of ITX 9.0.0 lists version 12.1 only.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Delivered

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...
over 1 year 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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Delivered

Version information for compiled map

In my opinion each map shold have some kind of header, which include some information as version, time and date when was build or maybe other. This information should be readble from binary map by command server e.g.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Delivered

New function 'QUIT()' to stop a map at a specific point

The client has requested a new function (perhaps called "QUIT()") which will stop the map at that point as FAIL() currently does, but with a non fail exit code (maybe a new warning code instead).
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered