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Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced

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: Message Version Number, Message Release Number and Controlling Agency values should pass from original Business document when we use wildcard in 997/CONTRL envelope

Currently the 997/control envelopes are generating with sender/receiver which are passing to original Business document data when we are using wildcard (*) in sender CONTRL /997 . But the Message Version Number, Message Release Number and Controll...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Encoding format data expecting from the codelist or transformation using SPE Adapter.

Currently SPE adapter returns the data with UTF8 encoding by default for the corresponding ITX external data harness functions supported by ITXA. These returned values from SPE in a string format as UFT8 encoding by default to the Transformation E...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

ITXA - Documentation needing to be updated for the following properties including their implications.

Customer is wanting documentation on the following properties and the implicatoins of using them: # Lock Manager settings: Uncomment to change the default values. # Maximum time to wait for acquiring a lock in ms. The default is 2 hours. #envelopi...

ITXA - Include "Created by" column for Code Lists in Trading Partner UI

Currently, the "Created by" column is not available for Code Lists, but is available for Maps and Envelopes. This column is needed to give developers and support staff visibility on who has created/updated Code Lists.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - improve the EDI X12 27x transaction

To Support EDI 27x transactions and follow X12 HIPAA Guidelines. My company Prolifics Inc is working with the client who is BlueShield of California (Health Insurance provider). We are working in a project where we have to deal with the EDI 27x (2...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

SPEDeenvelopingService not returning compliance error to B2BI ProcessData - Data is malformed and expecting non-compliant message from ITXA to the calling B2Bi Business Process - Advanced Status

B2BI submission of SPE deenveloping Service and the customer is expecting the response to set the BP STATE: HALTED and the Advanced Status: Resource edifactdata.txt: Transaction-Non-Compliant ....when there are issues with Segments and Elements. T...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA-Ambiguous ISA Envelopes

Duplicate envelopes created with same SENDER ID and RECEIVER ID with different name of Envelope Name Please check the envelope database table before making an new entry with same SENDERID and RECEIVER ID so that It can generate an error message ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration

ITXA - Missing GS ID causes entire file to fail validation

During the Deenvelope service, missing envelope for GS id causes the entire file to fail. The process should fail only the missing GS and continue processing the rest of the file.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

ITXA - Compliance check Map response sequence mismatching after processing in ITXA

Currently the sequence of output cards after processing in ITXA is not matching with compliance map and it is generating randomly. when we verified with the ITX team and they have confirmed that it is generating in sequential order in the ITX env...
almost 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Transformation Extender Advanced validation for Envelope service needs to include invalid enveloped documents

Customer requires that invalid outbound data, the inbound data that caused the issue, and the translation report showing the errors in the outbound data. Current behavior returns the inbound data, the translation report, but not the outbound data ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration