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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...
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...

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X12 Transaction 005010X216 278N

EDI X12 Transaction 005010X216 278N is not included in the type tree for compliance check for the HIPAA Pack. The transaction is also not included in the EDI X12 pack (per Greg McEachern). Please create the type tree and update the compliance chec...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered

S/EDIFACT - EDIFACT Packs

The EDIFACT type trees included in the EDIFACT packs 2.8.1 (specifically edifd96a.mtt) do not include the segments USH, USA, US, UNO which are included in the standard version.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered

Validate in RD8 that beginning date is chronologically before ending date

In the case of an X12/HIPAA field being a RD8 (date range), the beginning/starting date should be chronologically before the ending date. If it is not, then it should fail a Type 2 or higher check. We originally experienced this in an 820 transact...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered

New function 'QUIT()' to stop a map at a specific point

The client has requested a new function (perhaps called "QUIT()") which will stop the map at that point as FAIL() currently does, but with a non fail exit code (maybe a new warning code instead).
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

Compliance link not working in TACK_EDI.html file

HIPAA compliance_check map is designed to create the Translated Acknowledgement (TAck) compliance_check_TAck.html file with a HREF attribute value using the static TAck_EDI.html file name. When compliance run process for multiple files TACK_EDI.ht...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 1 Delivered

Having a possibility to do use regular expressions would be nice

It regularly happens that WTX has to apply regular expressions, and at the moment this needs to write eiher an external function (which in turn involves adding C development to the projects) or Java (which requires using JEXIT + possibly adding Ja...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 3 Delivered

Need a "LOOKDOWN" function to find the last object in a series

WTX provides a LOOKUP function to find the first occurence in a series matching a given condition. In some case, it is needed to find the LAST one, and "reversing" the series is not always practical (e.g. : if you want both the first and last obje...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Enhanced functional maps navigation in studio

In complex mappings, it is sometimes hard to navigate across multiple levels of functional maps. Developers' life would be easiser if they could get back to the place where they were before going to a given function map
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Support SFTP as a file transfer option for deployments from IFD

My IT shop has moved away from FTP in favor of SFTP for all internal file transfers between servers. The Integration Flow Designer (IFD) within the WTX Design Studio only supports FTP as the sole file transfer protocol when utilizing the deploymen...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

ISO8601 week of year format

WTX meaning of WW format is different from ISO8601 week of year format . Most of the world used ISO8601 week of year format , can this be added to WTX date/time formats?
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered