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Sterling Transformation Extender

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HTTP Adapter Enhancements

Banking sector needs a lot of security on the data we share . The current Http adapter supports some of these functionalities but not all. Currently we are implementing api's or integrating api's by writing jexit function to call an external java ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Functionality already exists

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

ITX output validation

ITX has option to validation the input file against schema by using the Schema-validation Option on the input card. Same can be disabled by choosing Well-formed. This option is not available for output file that is generated by the map. It would ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Functionality already exists

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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

WTX should not crash when a resource value is too large.

Although the limits in resource values is documented, it is still possible to enter too long a value in a mrn file. This crashes the studio when running a map, even if the faulty resource is not used by the map. The resource registry tool should a...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to specify columns when inserting data in a table from a card.

At the moment, the DB adapter does an INSERT INTO table_name VALUES (..., which implies that we insert into all columns. This makes the map depending on the table design, and in out case, where multiple projects may update the tables, create confl...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 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.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Functionality already exists

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Under review

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 6 Under review