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Sterling Transformation Extender

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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?
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

automapper should also work with same input/output types

It is a common pattern to work twice on a output card, e.g.:- when the output should also include summarized amounts of several output records that need to be built/calculated first- when the header should announce how many records will follow Now...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Autmoapper from output to output

The automapper is very useful, but only does input to output. In some cases, we need to prepare mapping in one output card, and enrich it later in a following output card. Currently, it can be done but needs some cards copy and moving, and this wo...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

enhanced PARSE function

In order to use the new PARSE function as a replacement for the old RUN(submap) constructs, the PARSE function should have similar behavior as RUN(submap). This essentially requires 2 enhancements: 1.) We need to pass arguments to PARSE like "-F21...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

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...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

A new WARN() function, which would work similar to FAIL()

I propose a new function WARN(), which would work in a similar way to FAIL() and end the map with a specific warning code.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

ITX Design Server and Launcher containers availability on IBM Container Registry (ICR)

ITX Design Server and Launcher containers to be available on IBM Container Registry (ICR). Currently only available through Docker
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Planned for future release

Make component rules validation optional, just as it is the case with restriction lists

In WTX, when running a map, there's an option to avoid validating restriction lists. Having the same option for component rules could be useful in some cases.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Functionality already exists