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ITX offers DATETIME format conversion. Request a Function/Keyword to convert datetime from one time zone to specified time zone.

Am looking for a new function in ITX to convert datetime from one time zone to another time say. Say if the input is in format(with zone) 2024-07-26T:21:12:00 NZST, and requirement is to convert to CST. TODATETIMEZONE(datetimefield,fromzone,tozone...
24 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version being used in ITX11 to latest mainstream version of 2023 and version after that. The two version currently in use are considered end of life by Microsoft.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Planned for future release

Sample Data for NCPDP D.0 all types

We would like to get some sample data for NCPDP D.0 all types, or a functionality to create proper sample data which aligns with all the component rules and restrictions.
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

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.
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement for R11 and R41 rules

Rule Type 11 is checking subelement values, but doesn’t return the bad value if no match. We wanted to populate the bad value as Data Content in Tack.html. As of now, there are no rules that could be used in this case. We need an enhancement for t...

ITX - Expand SERIESTOTEXT function with a delimiter

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function just concatenates the content of an array which doesn't make it useable in my case. Adding an option for a delimiter like SERIESTOTEXT(Field(s), ",") would make a comma-separated string out of the array which wo...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information

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

Maps with JSON output cards are building very slowly

I have some maps in the design studio. They take 15 minutes each to build. While the build is occurring you can see exactly what is being checked in each map - that's how slow the build is. I have never come across this before. Normally you can't ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration