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Sterling Transformation Extender

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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

Extend the map compile timeout from its current preset which has been set to 120 sec

Currently, the ssftpdeploy process has 120 seconds for the map compile timeout as a preset value and few of our systems are timing out before the completion of deploying the msl. I would like to check on two options to resolve the issue - 1) If th...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration

Creation of an ANSI X12 type tree that supports Plan Member Reporting.

The transaction is actually an 834 but is different from the 005010X220A1 834 used for Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance. The GS08 value for this transaction is 005010X318 and the TR3 was releases in November 2016.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 3 Not under consideration

The need to sometimes have audit / trace created in the locations compiled in when using the REST API of ITX version 10

Observed that when Directory name is set as "Custom" and relative path is mentioned - Audit/Trace File is not created in relative path directory with mentioned name when audit and trace settings is set to "ON" and maps are triggered using REST API...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. A sample message can be provided if needed. Can the nex...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Make (un)zip work in memory like excel adapter

We're working with a MQ-ACE-ITX setup. Being able to use (un)zip in memory would make it possible to work without temp-files to store the data. The excel-adapter has a switch to store/update stuff in memory, a similar way for (un)zip would be great.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Future consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 3 Not under consideration

More uses of resource vars

We have different engineers who all have a different way of storing general used parts of mappings (i.e. TypeTrees). The possibility to use a resource var in the filename parts of input and output cards would help us drastically to maintain a cent...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Not under consideration