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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Display Starting position of the field in field level properties for "FIXED, IMPLICIT" group/file.

In ITX, when the group is defined as fixed and implicit, to identify a field position most of the time we must sum up the field length of previous fields when there is no layout. This would simplify the identification of field in positional files.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

data anonymization/masking (typetree attribute + test mode)

There are 2 requirements that lead to this idea: 1.) external requirements like GDPR force us to anonymize/pseudonymize data in non-production environments2.) A-B-testing would be much easier if we can mask dynamic attributes (e.g. timestamps) T...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Compliance Check map to include the CTX segments in the 999 Negative Acknowledgement

the usage of the CTX segment in the 999 would utilized in the LOOP ID - 2100 - AK2/IK3 ERROR IDENTIFICATION. where the Business Unit Identifier can correctly show the transaction error. TR3 rules state "Required when the error reported in this IK3...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 5 Not under consideration

ITX maps to invoke as REST APIs both synchronous & asynchronous the only option is to have REDIS caching software however REDIS not in our approved enterprise software list.

Requirements : We see that for ITX maps to invoke as REST APIs both synchronous & asynchronous the only option is to have REDIS caching software however REDIS not in our approved enterprise software list. We would like to have other al...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add support to MQ Adaptor to segment large payloads as multiple Grouped Logical Messages based on a supplied size limit

Currently the MQ Input Adaptor allows for multiple Logically Grouped Messages to be retrieved from the Queue as a single Payload using the -GRP2 option. This enhancement would make it possible to do the same on the Output. It would also allow for ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

PGP support part of OpenPGP adapter

Currently OpenPGP adapter supports GPG but not PGP, We request to enable support for pgp part of OpenPGP adapter. also we need to have a way to encrypt data in-memory / In-flight instead of writing plain text into disk and then encrypting.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Add UUID function compliant with RFC4122

Create a UUID function that is compliant with RFC4122, and allow developer to select version and variant
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Terracotta to be used as REDIS Server

THis is Enhance request For REST API Asynchronous call allow Terracotta to be used.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration