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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

generate a PDF file with the images and tables using the details in the received input file.

PDF adapter needs more power to generate pdf files with images and tables using the data from the input file/message.
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version being used in ITX11 to latest mainstream version of 2023 and version after that. The two version currently in use are considered end of life by Microsoft.
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Planned for future release

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

Stream data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

DTXDS APIs for the Launcher

We are currently trying to automate a bit our software lifecycle management and we would like to automate the compilation and deployment of maps on our Linux system. We are using Azure pipeline for this automatization and we would like to have a w...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

WTX/ITX Oracle adapter - automatic failover implementation

We are using the WTX/ITX Oracle adapter for our connection with an Oracle Exadata database. In case of database failure, Exadate switch automaticly to the second cluster node. >> Problem : At the switch time, all running maps faile with ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Containers should support logging to filesystem, console, or both.

Our containers need to be configurable via helm to log to either a persistent volume, the console, or both. A lot of our containers today support either console or persistent volume but do not allow both at the same time.
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0

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