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Autmoapper from output to output

The automapper is very useful, but only does input to output. In some cases, we need to prepare mapping in one output card, and enrich it later in a following output card. Currently, it can be done but needs some cards copy and moving, and this wo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

format string parser

Please add a parser/validator of format srings into the compiler, so that WTX developers are being notified of invalid format strings that won't work in the WTX engine.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

WTX should not crash when a resource value is too large.

Although the limits in resource values is documented, it is still possible to enter too long a value in a mrn file. This crashes the studio when running a map, even if the faulty resource is not used by the map. The resource registry tool should a...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Database Interface Designer should take care of all character sets, and not only the obsolete ones

Currently (in 8.4.1.2 and earlier), Database Interface Designer cannot be told to use character sets other than the "historic" ones. It is of course possible to convert the type trees later, but would be better not to have to.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to specify columns when inserting data in a table from a card.

At the moment, the DB adapter does an INSERT INTO table_name VALUES (..., which implies that we insert into all columns. This makes the map depending on the table design, and in out case, where multiple projects may update the tables, create confl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Make the "use ellipses button" a display option

The Map Designer provides a way to use ellipses when draggin'-n-dropin' type references into a rule. This is very nice to make rules more compact and usually improves readability. However, "getting back" to the referenced type is sometimes an issu...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Create multiple indexes in one shot

When developing and working with item(s), it could be interesting to create several indexes of an item in one shot. This is to avoid using the "add index" function again and again (which is time consuming)
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

enhance Type tree importer for flat files

ITX has / had an importer for flat files. This is tedious to use. This request is to enhance the importer. Can it be modeled like a text to column importer in Excelcan it receive its definitions from a csv and be based on the APIs that can be exte...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

support milliseconds in datetime

A lot of operations track times to the millisecond. This request is to add millisecond support to ITX.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

A new WARN() function, which would work similar to FAIL()

I propose a new function WARN(), which would work in a similar way to FAIL() and end the map with a specific warning code.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration