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Sterling Transformation Extender

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ITX HIPAA Compliance Check - Include validation of NPI number

Enhance the HIPAA Compliance Check to validate that the NPI number in the X12 transactions is a valid format. NPI Must be 10 characters long, starting with a 1 or 2 and the first 9 digits are used to calculate the 10th character, as a check digit.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 1 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

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

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

WTX-Plugin: 64bit EXIT() call

While WTX is available in 64bit, its C-API (runmerc.h) remained 32bit. This leads to a bottleneck. WTX mappings without C-API EXIT() calls work with huge files (>4GB), but WTX mappings that make use of the C-API EXIT() call can handle 1.9GB onl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Please validate the latest Windows Server OS to work with WDI V3.3 and the client installs

Our server group is pushing the upgrade of all servers running Windows Server 2003 as it is EOL for support through Microsoft. The stress is on getting it to work in 2012 R2 as that is the preference.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 0 Delivered

Compliance map not generating valid XML message on edi_log.xml

edi_log.xml generated output compliance maps are not valid XML for both EDIFACT and X12. They are missing closing tag for EDIFACT & root opening/closing tags for X12.

Including 277DRA transaction in Compliance Check

Our clients are seeking to check compliance on 277DRA transactions as well . Version - 5010

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

The support of T2S had been requesed in 2022 but was't taken into consideration. We are resubmitting this request to be reconsidered for the next ITX Financial Payments roadmap. Banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPa...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered

Require T5_896_R and T5_897_C codeset jsons

Currently we have only pattern match rules for T5_896_R (ICD10 Procedure Code for Principal Procedure ) and T5_897_C (ICD10 Diagnosis Code for Admitting Diagnosis) and we don't have code sets available in HIPAA pack for code set validation. Kindly...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered