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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

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

Add an option to the output file adapter to generate a unique filename

A new option U for the output file adapter to put the result from the card in a file with a unique filename.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Functionality already exists

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Functionality already exists

At this moment the IBM MQSC adapter has a -CD option for channel definition but there is no way to specify a CCDT file for secure connections

We use WTX with launcher on AIX . Until now, with 1 CCDT we only had to set the environment variables MQCHLLIB, MQCHLTAB, MQSSLKEYR to point to a single CCDT-file. These envrionment variables are set before WTX is started and so every map of every...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration