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Sterling Transformation Extender

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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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

WTX doesnt support REFCURSOR type from Oracle DB

REFCURSORs are NOT supported by the WTX Oracle adapter.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere Data Interchange z/OS 3.3.0 and DB2 V12 for z/OS compatibility

From PMR# 43108,227,000, the latest supported DB2 version for WDI 3.3 on z/OS is V11. We are planning to upgrade to DB2 for z/OS V12 soon. Is WDI 3.3 compatible with DB2 V12, and are there any PTFs required to be compatible with DB2 V12 (function ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Functionality already exists

Functions to get internal information from within a running map

For logging/tracing purposes I'd like to be able to get actual information about the mapping/card/function/field I'm currently at. So I can write into a logging about that particular point in the execution. A bit like LASTERRORCODE() or GETRESOU...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Future consideration

Include ISA information in either the data passed to the hcsvu exit for implementing a type 7 rule in the qualifier file or in the data passed to a type 7 custom user exit

We currently have a requirement to compare one of ISA value to 1000A NM1 values to ensure they are same and it is currently no doable in ITX. We received this as a suggestion from support ticket TS005672303
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Not under consideration

Reset reused workfiles for maps in the Launcher

Reusing workfiles makes map faster as it speeds up the alidation process. However, changes in data mean special care has to be taken to avoid issues for the concerned maps. Currently, one has to manually remove the workfiles after the Launcher was...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Reset Launcher "Black list" for failed messages

Whenever a message triggers a map failure, even if the failure is not related to the message's content, the message is blacklisted by the launcher and will not be trigered again. This avoids "poison messages" but needs a restart to have the messag...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

The V10 WebUI should have impact anlaysis

Since ITX projects are storing artifacts (maps, schemas, connections, variablets) it 'knows' which maps use which schemas, etc. It would be very useful to be able to do impact analysis. How many maps use a schema? How many places is a variable re...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Future 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 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Option to turn off writing to Correlation_Set while using SPETransformationService

Our BP calls SPETransformationService for HIPAA data translation only. When our BP runs in sync mode (zero persistence), we observed many records created in correlation_set table, about 3 to 6 records per object_id, with names "Map", "MapVersion",...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Is a defect

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