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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Improve debug capabilities on failed maps

When a map is deployed and fails translation, it is very difficult to find out the reason of the failure. A clear report on what has been the failure, as the Translation service of SterlingB2B Integrator, that includes type or error, iteration cou...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Future consideration

read/write IIB environment tree in ITX plugin

Other IIB transformation engines can access all parts of an iib message (environment, local environment, ...). But the current implementation of the ITX plugin only allows to work with the payload of an iib message. Please enhance ITX plugin s...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 6 Not under consideration

More uses of resource vars

We have different engineers who all have a different way of storing general used parts of mappings (i.e. TypeTrees). The possibility to use a resource var in the filename parts of input and output cards would help us drastically to maintain a cent...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Submitted

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

TPUI - A person with USER role, with ENVELOPE - FULL ACCESS grant should be able to select a map from within the EDIT of an Envelope and save. Today, this requires SYSTEM ADMIN role.

a USER role with ENVELOPE - FULL ACCESS grant should be able to select a map and save the envelope. An ADMIN role with ENVELOPE - FULL ACCESS grant should be able to select a map and save the envelope. A company should not have to give a SYSTEM AD...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Under review

ITXA-Ambiguous ISA Envelopes

Duplicate envelopes created with same SENDER ID and RECEIVER ID with different name of Envelope Name Please check the envelope database table before making an new entry with same SENDERID and RECEIVER ID so that It can generate an error messag...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Handling XML data Using WTX map

We have a WTX translation map from xml to Legacy format. The source xml type tree has been created with the XSD schema. Currently the map was working fine with the xml data because it is matching with type tree structure. However the client is say...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

A script to identify & package a Launcher/CS/API core and dependant libraries, allowing for remote core analysis on Linux

In order to analyse a Linux core file on IBM lab machines, we need to gather & package all shared libs (included OS) from the system. A script that finds out all loaded DLLs from the core and packages them is needed. We don't have such a scrip...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Not under consideration

Please incorporate FlowVariables in x/OS Command Server

We have been asking for this for years and years. Finally learned about it for version 10. Learned how to code it, coded it in about 20 minutes. I then ported the map to z/OS where we run this map, and it did not work. Support advised that FlowVar...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0

Solve Security issue user creditionals management console on ITX version 10

When you configure the management console on a Linux host (probably also on Windows) to connect to a launcher, You are required to configure the network connection to the launcher and the username and password to logon. This configuration is store...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Management Tools 1 Not under consideration