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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Enhance the MQ Adaptor for Launcher / Flow Server to use MQ GEt with CallBack vs the constant pooling of the Queue

Currently the ITX MQ Adaptor is constantly Pooling the MQ Queue (observed via MQ API Trace) for new messages based on a default 2 sec polling interval in the dtx.ini. Would like to see an option to do a unlimited MQ GET wait with the MQ Callback A...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Submitted

Allow ITXA Trading Partner UI to use Windows Services

We installed ITXA with Sterling Integrator. When the SI services are started manually, using an Admin CMD window, the SPE link (in SI) stops working when I sign off of the SI application server. When the services are started with a server reboot, ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Needs more information

Transaction reports

We have upgrading the Partner Manger to ITXA and Presently in the Trading manager we have option to see the transaction report( see attached transaction report for details) we are looking not exact similar functionality but want to check if their ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Future consideration

Customize the different designers to chose another temp folder

Currently the different designers (design studio, flow designer DB and RR managers) may use the install folder to write temporary/log/work files. Being able to force those tools to write somewhere else (using a setup file or whatever) could be hel...

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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 6 Not under consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Future consideration

Alter The Transformation Extender Error Reject Report To Have An XML Format Similar To B2Bi

We currently running SI B2Bi v 6.1 and also have ITX 10.1.1 installed. ITX running with launcher on our AIX file system which works with BP's in SI B2Bi. We are requesting that the failures coming out of ITX be in the B2Bi XML Trans Report format ...

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 ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 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