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Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Ability to mass download maps, codelists, envelopes, comm setups and routing rules for periodic backup

The customer wants the ability to download their assets—maps, envelopes, codelists, communication setups, and routing rules—from our SaaS platform via APIs. This will allow them to maintain a local backup of latest copies of these assets.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

data anonymization/masking (typetree attribute + test mode)

There are 2 requirements that lead to this idea: 1.) external requirements like GDPR force us to anonymize/pseudonymize data in non-production environments2.) A-B-testing would be much easier if we can mask dynamic attributes (e.g. timestamps) Thi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 5 Functionality already exists

Allow custom metadata tags rather than forcing predefined tags like "business reference"

Our viewers come from many teams and may want to search documents by different important tags. Such as 'SHID', 'MBOL', 'LoadNumber', 'OrderNumber', 'InvoiceNumber', etc. Today Inflight only allows "Business Ref", and ExtraInfo 1-3 for data like th...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) / Mapping & Translation 4 Future consideration

referenced TypeTree (parts)

You can build one TypeTree or one strucutre and can use it for example as part of choice-group in another TypeTree. Everybody that use TypeTree as a kind of central unit and have to reuse these structures in other interfaces will benefit.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Support Open API 3.0 specifications int he OpenAPI typetree importer

As of now the OpenAPI importer only support swagger 2.0 json format. However, as the OpenApi V3 in json/yaml become more and more common it would be very usefull for ITX to support it.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

User Exit enhancement allowing a map to read rows in the TransactionRegister

Adding the requirement as SCBN Premium customer has requested duplicate file check based on PO number, within a given timeframe. Their current requirement is to check for duplicate PO within 72 hours. Based on feedback from development team the ti...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Codesets caching in hipaa healthcare pack

We want some kind of caching mechanism in the hipaa healthcare pack, so instead of calling the database (for SNIP 5 rules) each time the map is called, it should cache the codeset values from DB.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under 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...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration