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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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 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

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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

support milliseconds in datetime

A lot of operations track times to the millisecond. This request is to add millisecond support to ITX.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Simplification of mapping partitioned type

Mapping a partitioned type or its partition does not give the same result, data can be lost when partition has release character as shown in the code sample attached.Actually mapping the partitioned type does not mean "map the partition that was i...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 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.
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years 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