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Sterling Transformation Extender

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The ITX mapper needs to be capable of supporting Sterling B2Bi Envelope/Control Number management is a similar manner to how it support ITXA in order to fully leverage ITX maps within the Sterling B2Bi product

This ask effectively is to expand the Sterling Data Harness called within ITX maps to support more than just delimited from the Sterling Envelope but allow for a get & increment control number(s) as well as all sender/receiver/qualifer/version...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the MQ adapters to allow the Connectivity to Gateway Queue Managers

Due to performance considerations, it's necessary to load balance the high volume loading of queue managers. We need the ability to connect to MQ Gateway queue managers and allow them to facilitate the balancing of data across the multiple queue m...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Future consideration

Turning off Audit, traces & backup (logs) dynamically in runtime

We process very large volume of HIPAA/ non-HIPAA transactions on daily basis with file size from 1KB - 2GB of data. In our architecture/ solution we always uses ITX along with the IIB/ACE product. At times our developers forget to turn off either ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 1 Not under consideration

Enhance PDF to type tree importer

Currently PDF to type tree importer doesn't work on extensibility on field or data level. Also most version of PDF are not supported. The enhancement of this importing would make is feature more user friend and product usability would increase
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Encryption for Socket Adapter

We would like to exchange data over Socket securely and would like if ITX/WTX can add encryption to Socket Adapter
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Trace File on failure

ITX being a robust product , there a strong feeling that when we look in to the trace on failure of a file its being bewildered or unclear at which point of input data error has occurred. New option can be introduced showing only the failing value...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Need to connect Sybase Database with ssl port using mercator (ODBC adapter)

Currently IBM Transformation extender tool (version 10.0.0) using ODBC adapter for sybase DB connections for creating .mdq file. We are able to connect syabse database with normal port but we are facing issue while connecting with ssl port. When c...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 5 Not under consideration

Using DB2 for performing SNIP Type 5 (External Code Set) validation in compliance check map

We have requirements for performing SNIP Type 5 validation and we use DB2 for our client. But we understand from ITX support team that the hipaa_data_compliance map is designed to use MONGO DB for performing SNIP Type 5 validation (External Code S...
about 3 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...
over 3 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...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration