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My ideas: Sterling Transformation Extender

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ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Add JDBC importer to Design Studio(Eclipse) or Database interface Designer

The only way to import a typetree for JDBC adapter, is to call an external java command line com.hcl.hip.tools.adapterdriver.TreeImporter for the adapter com.hcl.hip.adapters.m4jdbc. This is not a user friendly solution.
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Claim Level Rejction

ITX-I-210 was an enhancement to claim level rejection to change from looking at only CLM01 to look at the entire CLM segment when checking for duplicates. This enhance was released in 10.2.1. We have found that we are still having issues with enti...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 4 Not under consideration

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...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Not under consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

Enhance a import feature to import JSON SCHEMA and Swagger(YAML) as type tree

Currently we have capability in ITX to import the JSON file as type tree. But we have a challenge that customers might give all the possible fields and group which are mandatory/conditional in the JSON test file during development. So we end up wi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration