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Sterling Transformation Extender

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redesign Oracle adapter for BLOB datatype

The current Oracle Adapter has the following restriction: columns with datatype BLOB can be used on input/output cards only. It's not possible to use them in DBQUERY/DBLOOKUP commands due to string restrictions that are caused by the fundamental a...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Update to the Database Designer

Can the database designer be updated to import fields by character, in addition to bytes? There is an inconsistency with the current byte sizing when importing objects from a Unicode/UTF-8 database.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

mcompile results should be consistent

Current version (9.0.0.2) added a feature where timestamp based information is added to the compiled maps.We request to have this information optional and not by default.We also request to have the feature extended so that we can inject appropriat...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Not under consideration

Add the HIPAA 834 318 and 277DRA transaction to the HIPAA pack

The state of New York is requiring insurance carriers to use the 834X318 and 277DRA transactions. These transactions are currently not in the HIPAA pack. This will cause compliance checking not to work and the mapping type tree is not available fo...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 5 Not under consideration

SPE Codelist enhancement

RFE requirement for SPE Codelist enhancement Problem Statement – We are replacing xref files with ITXA code list so that the WTX map could use code list to perform mapping logic Description –ITX maps in ABC environment currently uses xref file...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add new packages to ITX docker images

Request to install the following packages as part of ITX docker images 1) install gawk.2) install realpath
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

support milliseconds in datetime

A lot of operations track times to the millisecond. This request is to add millisecond support to ITX.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

enhance ITX plugin for IIB

the ITX plugin in IIB works very well. However, it is not possible to update the audit and trace settings on the fly and can only be done by deploying a new map with the updated settings.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 1 Not under consideration

Connection manager changes

Currently the connection manager is single threaded over the entire launcher or on an execution group in message broker. one bad server slows everything down as a result. it would be better to make it single threaded over a particular hostname
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Simplification of mapping partitioned type

Mapping a partitioned type or its partition does not give the same result, data can be lost when partition has release character as shown in the code sample attached.Actually mapping the partitioned type does not mean "map the partition that was i...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration