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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Enhancement for R11 and R41 rules

Rule Type 11 is checking subelement values, but doesn’t return the bad value if no match. We wanted to populate the bad value as Data Content in Tack.html. As of now, there are no rules that could be used in this case. We need an enhancement for t...

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 so ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 6 Not under consideration

Claim Level Rejction

ITX-I-210 was an enhancement to claim level rejection to change from looking at only CLM01 to look at the entire CLM segment when checking for duplicates. This enhance was released in 10.2.1. We have found that we are still having issues with enti...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 4 Not under consideration

Open diferent sheets from an excel file

We need to build a map where the input will be an excel file, but the information is retrieved from different sheets. Each file received contains a different number of sheets and the information will be retrieved by cells assigned in another inp...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 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...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 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...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

Add support to allow for an Azure Service Bus Queue to be used to trigger a Launcher / Flow

Need support to allow a new message on a ASB queue to trigger a Launcher or Flow. Currently this is not support. We can only Read / write to a ASB Queue, we can not Listen.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Under review

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 ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration