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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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Compliance Check App - Consistently create REF(D9) Segment in the 277CA to tie Claim Ack back to the original good/bad 837.

Our organization needs the capability for the HIPAA Pack's Compliance Check application to consistently generate a 277CA (005010X214) with a REF (D9) segment for both good and bad claims so that the 277 Claim Ack may be tied back to the original c...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Delivered

NCPDP - Compliance Check

Create a Compliance Check for NCPDP Pack Transactions similar to the HIPAA Pack Transactions.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 2 Delivered

SNDPOR and SNDPRN are not mapped

Using the JALE Adapter, if SNDPOR if not mapped it defaults to CUSTOMERLS. Using the ALE Adapter, if SNDPOR if not mapped it defaults to MERCATOR. We are migrating from the ALE Adapter to the JALE Adapter are require the same behaviour for both ad...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered

SFTP Connector for ITX

It's impossible to do SFTP (FTP over SSH) with FTP adapter with ITX 9.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Delivered

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...
almost 7 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.
almost 7 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...
almost 7 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).
almost 7 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...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 3 Delivered