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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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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

Enable wildcard MSL with multiple Launchers as with single Launcher

When setting up a single Launcher source directory there is no need to specify which MSL files to run. The single Launcher event will go to the assigned directory and find/run all MSL files found. This is effectively a wild card usage of *.msl. We...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Additional performance related timing data required in the audit log on a per-card basis

A change that I would love to see in audit logs is a start time and an end time for each card.  The current way of showing timings at the card level – with a “TimeStamp” at each card – is very confusing.  I get the idea that th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Not under consideration

Add RND Standard to SPE

Rede Nacional de Dados (RND), the Brazilian automotive standard (which consists of automobile manufacturers and their development partners, the suppliers, and the manufacturers of trailers, body superstructures, and containers)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Add CII Standard to SPE

The CII standard is the EDI standard developed by the Center for the Informatization of Industry in 1991 for use in all industries in Japan as an expanded and reformed standard of the EIAJ standard, which was designed exclusively for electronic in...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Support for WTX4IS in Pure Application

Walmart is looking into Pure Application. They already have IIB and MQ, they need the WTX component. Currently we only package Launcher, we need package for WTX4IS.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 0 Not under consideration

Tranformation & Standards

As an initial product deployment please provide all HIPAA standard code lists available as part of the ITXA tool. If needed updates to the Code lists before IBMs next scheduled upgrade as a customer we can maintain.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 1 Not under consideration

enhance Type tree importer for flat files

ITX has / had an importer for flat files. This is tedious to use. This request is to enhance the importer. Can it be modeled like a text to column importer in Excelcan it receive its definitions from a csv and be based on the APIs that can be exte...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

SPE Codelist- Data Harness New Feature.(Multiple Search and retrieval)

Hi Team, I have raised on a PMR 38895,082,000 on SPE Codelist and my understanding on that PMR was as follows. 1. We can only search a SPE codelist using SenderCode or ReceiverCode only (not with Codelistitem Colomns)using below adapter. a) getCod...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Extract all Sheets(tabs) from Microsoft Excel into 1 csv file with sheet(tab) spacers

Is there a way in which I could read the whole workbook that would includeall the sheets (tabs) at once, instead of creating multiple cards or calls issuing the PARSE(GET("EXCEL", "-W 'Tab 1' -T", ExcelIn)) changing the sheet name. Is there a wild...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration