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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...
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...

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SPE deenveloping service corrects automatically output BAD_GROUP link

When SE01 contains an incorrect segment count, the SPE deenveloping service fails with transaction non-compliant but the output BAD_GROUP is actually corrected data. Why and how it is corrected. If the input data is bad , we donot expect it to be ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

ITXA to ICC integration for multiple correlations

When ITXA sends correlations for multiple transactions, it is present in ICC in a single field delimited by comma. This is causing issue with SLC correlation in ICC. ICC correlates using Senderid, Receiverid and Payment numnber for both IB 820 and...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

Allow variable use in arrays

WTX does not support the use of a variable in an array. So this request is to add this feature in future WTX/ITX releases.That is, a variable can not be used in an indexed field.For example, you can not use Name[INDEX($)] or Name[x], where x being...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

ITXA - Add Trading Partner UI for HL7 standards

ITXA UI Currently have envelopes for X12/ EDIFACT and HIPPA. How ever for HL7 it is not supported in ITXA. Request IBM to include the enveloping and business rules for HL7, so that customers would use the enveloping features of HL7 as well.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

ITXA - Support for ITXA 9.0 on Amazon cloud infra with Linux 7.3 VM

Team as per PMR 32724,122,000. We are looking to install ITXA 9.0 on Linux 7.3 VM withing Amazon Cloud Infra. The PMR team has pointed saying they do not support.However, the question is how does it really matter to the software ITXA/SPE which act...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Connection manager changes

Currently the connection manager is single threaded over the entire launcher or on an execution group in message broker. one bad server slows everything down as a result. it would be better to make it single threaded over a particular hostname
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

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

Add an option to the output file adapter to generate a unique filename

A new option U for the output file adapter to put the result from the card in a file with a unique filename.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Functionality already exists

WebSphere Data Interchange z/OS 3.3.0 and DB2 V12 for z/OS compatibility

From PMR# 43108,227,000, the latest supported DB2 version for WDI 3.3 on z/OS is V11. We are planning to upgrade to DB2 for z/OS V12 soon. Is WDI 3.3 compatible with DB2 V12, and are there any PTFs required to be compatible with DB2 V12 (function ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Functionality already exists