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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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add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Not under consideration

WTX MQ Adapter command does not allow BOQNAME definition

In the WTX MQ adapter command list, there is no BOQNAME command to define the back out queue name. And the -EQN may not have the same results as BOQNAME. This is a request to create the -BOQNAME in the WTX MQ adapter command.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement for ZIP Adapter

ZIP adapter works only with files at present to decompress the zipped data. We request for a enhancement similar to GZIP, where we can decompress using options such as below. for example, the below rule cannot be used in case of a ZIP adapter, GET...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

SPE Codelist enhancement

RFE requirement for SPE Codelist enhancement Problem Statement – We are replacing xref files with ITXA code list so that the WTX map could use code list to perform mapping logic Description –ITX maps in ABC environment currently uses xref file...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

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

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

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