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Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

Solve Security issue user creditionals management console on ITX version 10

When you configure the management console on a Linux host (probably also on Windows) to connect to a launcher, You are required to configure the network connection to the launcher and the username and password to logon. This configuration is store...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Management Tools 1 Not under consideration

ITX Design Studio Eclipse in sync with Rational Developer for z Systems

We deploy Eclipse tooling to our developers. It would be very benificial if we can include the ITX plugin in our RDz package. The request therefore is to have the ITX Eclipse plugin upgraded to the same Eclipse version as being used for RDz. It sh...
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

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

Add a feature to load codelist to IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) Design studio for local testing

We are using codelists for 90 percent of clients and currently, we do not have an option to load the codelists to the ITX design studio for local testing as we do for the SI mapping server. We are depending on CTE/Production testing to validate ma...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

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

Add the HIPAA 834 318 and 277DRA transaction to the HIPAA pack

The state of New York is requiring insurance carriers to use the 834X318 and 277DRA transactions. These transactions are currently not in the HIPAA pack. This will cause compliance checking not to work and the mapping type tree is not available fo...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 5 Not under consideration

Alter The Transformation Extender Error Reject Report To Have An XML Format Similar To B2Bi

We currently running SI B2Bi v 6.1 and also have ITX 10.1.1 installed. ITX running with launcher on our AIX file system which works with BP's in SI B2Bi. We are requesting that the failures coming out of ITX be in the B2Bi XML Trans Report format ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration