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Sterling Transformation Extender

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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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Not under consideration

WTX MQ Adapter command does not allow BOQNAME definition

In the WTX MQ adapter command list, there is no BOQNAME command to define the back out queue name. And the -EQN may not have the same results as BOQNAME. This is a request to create the -BOQNAME in the WTX MQ adapter command.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

SPE Codelist enhancement

RFE requirement for SPE Codelist enhancement Problem Statement – We are replacing xref files with ITXA code list so that the WTX map could use code list to perform mapping logic Description –ITX maps in ABC environment currently uses xref file...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Handling XML data Using WTX map

We have a WTX translation map from xml to Legacy format. The source xml type tree has been created with the XSD schema. Currently the map was working fine with the xml data because it is matching with type tree structure. However the client is say...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

WTX doesnt support REFCURSOR type from Oracle DB

REFCURSORs are NOT supported by the WTX Oracle adapter.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

automapper should also work with same input/output types

It is a common pattern to work twice on a output card, e.g.:- when the output should also include summarized amounts of several output records that need to be built/calculated first- when the header should announce how many records will follow Now...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Catching informations about WTX maps dynamically at runtime

The product functionality should be enhanced to make it possible for WTX maps to catch following informations dynamically at runtime 1. its own map name2. the associated WTX system, sub system and component to clearly identify the map3. on which i...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Functionality already exists

SPE Envelope support for multiple ST/SE loops for non XMl files using the SPE.encode API

SPE.encode() translates a document and wraps the X12 output in ST/SE, GS/GE, and ISA segments. This means that to be compliant the translated output must fit within a single transaction set and a single functional group,which does not follow the H...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration