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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Capacity assessment of ITXA Rest Server

We are developing ITX maps that will access ITXA codelist for several fields mapping. Below are the expected scenarios: 1. There will be 100s of ITX maps to be developed to access ITXA codelist 2. Each map can access several times in a single exec...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - improve the EDI X12 27x transaction

To Support EDI 27x transactions and follow X12 HIPAA Guidelines. My company Prolifics Inc is working with the client who is BlueShield of California (Health Insurance provider). We are working in a project where we have to deal with the EDI 27x (2...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

SPEDeenvelopingService not returning compliance error to B2BI ProcessData - Data is malformed and expecting non-compliant message from ITXA to the calling B2Bi Business Process - Advanced Status

B2BI submission of SPE deenveloping Service and the customer is expecting the response to set the BP STATE: HALTED and the Advanced Status: Resource edifactdata.txt: Transaction-Non-Compliant ....when there are issues with Segments and Elements. T...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Include "Created by" column for Code Lists in Trading Partner UI

Currently, the "Created by" column is not available for Code Lists, but is available for Maps and Envelopes. This column is needed to give developers and support staff visibility on who has created/updated Code Lists.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

[Copy] ITXA - Import mxl maps from SI into SPE

When importing a map from SI into SPE, only the .txo is successfully imported and not the .mxl. This idea would ensure that both the .txo and .xml are imported, and would avoid the manual step of having to separately upload the .mxl to the map in ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA is allowing duplicate envelopes

ITXA allows users to create duplicate envelopes which causes enveloping and deenveloping process failures . Better to enhance ITXA product not to allow duplicate envelopes
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Inactive Partner Report

Create a reporting process or last envelope modified date so inactive partners can be identified. Inactive partners can be partners with no activity greater than 30 days or 60 days (possible configurable parameter).
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration

ITXA-Please add the following indexes to the SPE_HIPAA_RULES table.

Please add the following indexes to the SPE_HIPAA_RULES table. CREATE INDEX "B2BADMIN"."I_SP_HRLS_GS08_VALUE" ON "B2BADMIN"."SPE_HIPAA_RULES"("GS08_VALUE" ASC) COMPRESS NOINCLUDE NULL KEYS ALLOW REVERSE SCANS; CREATE INDEX "B2BADMIN"."I_SP_HRLS_ON...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA-Ambiguous ISA Envelopes

Duplicate envelopes created with same SENDER ID and RECEIVER ID with different name of Envelope Name Please check the envelope database table before making an new entry with same SENDERID and RECEIVER ID so that It can generate an error message ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration

ITXA - Expose as GUI configuration element (or similar) common X12 and EDIFACT standard deviations that require type tree changes. For example, non-standard delimiters. Applies to ITXA X12 and EDIFACT validation maps as well as X12 and EDIFACT mapping inside ITX.

Supporting a set of common deviations from ANSI mapping standards would increase solution flexibility and make ITX/ITXA more appealing to customers as it would more readily adapt to their specific business needs.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration