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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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Handling XML data Using WTX map

We have a WTX translation map from xml to Legacy format. The source xml type tree has been created with the XSD schema. Currently the map was working fine with the xml data because it is matching with type tree structure. However the client is say...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

WTX doesnt support REFCURSOR type from Oracle DB

REFCURSORs are NOT supported by the WTX Oracle adapter.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

automapper should also work with same input/output types

It is a common pattern to work twice on a output card, e.g.:- when the output should also include summarized amounts of several output records that need to be built/calculated first- when the header should announce how many records will follow Now...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

ITXA: Enhancements to WTX Map Service

WTX for integration server gives us the WTX Map service for map translation . we needed it to enhance the functionality of the WTX map service to be able to accept the multiple input and provide multiple outputs dynamically.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

Catching informations about WTX maps dynamically at runtime

The product functionality should be enhanced to make it possible for WTX maps to catch following informations dynamically at runtime 1. its own map name2. the associated WTX system, sub system and component to clearly identify the map3. on which i...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Functionality already exists

SPE Envelope support for multiple ST/SE loops for non XMl files using the SPE.encode API

SPE.encode() translates a document and wraps the X12 output in ST/SE, GS/GE, and ISA segments. This means that to be compliant the translated output must fit within a single transaction set and a single functional group,which does not follow the H...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Request for caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter

Hello , We have review your questions and comment with our developers in order for this result caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter, a design change would be needed in order to cache the Oracle statement handle. Currently, WTX Oracle adapter on...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

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

Make component rules validation optional, just as it is the case with restriction lists

In WTX, when running a map, there's an option to avoid validating restriction lists. Having the same option for component rules could be useful in some cases.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Functionality already exists

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