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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
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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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 3 Delivered

Need a "LOOKDOWN" function to find the last object in a series

WTX provides a LOOKUP function to find the first occurence in a series matching a given condition. In some case, it is needed to find the LAST one, and "reversing" the series is not always practical (e.g. : if you want both the first and last obje...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Enhanced functional maps navigation in studio

In complex mappings, it is sometimes hard to navigate across multiple levels of functional maps. Developers' life would be easiser if they could get back to the place where they were before going to a given function map
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Support SFTP as a file transfer option for deployments from IFD

My IT shop has moved away from FTP in favor of SFTP for all internal file transfers between servers. The Integration Flow Designer (IFD) within the WTX Design Studio only supports FTP as the sole file transfer protocol when utilizing the deploymen...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

ISO8601 week of year format

WTX meaning of WW format is different from ISO8601 week of year format . Most of the world used ISO8601 week of year format , can this be added to WTX date/time formats?
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered

Request for debugger in Map Editor

I was developing the map and it broke the whole system. Upon requesting for for information regarding the process, I was told that because the issue is not with the map editor but with the map, every thing is fine and ticket should be closed. I ha...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Documentation 1 Delivered

new function: SORTUP by item

Currently SORTUP can only handle the whole data structure as a long string, i.e. sort by the first item of this structure. Thus sorting by a different item than the 1st one is a complicated task in WTX: 1. create a new structure, putting the sort ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

WebSphere Extreme Scale Adapter

Many validation and enrichment applications require database lookup. If the data is accessed very often, performance will be degraded. Having the ability to read from WebSphere Extreme Scale cache will solve this problem.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Delivered

PDF/Excel adapters allowing the production of PDF/Excel files without needing the file system

We use ITX to perform transformation as a service. However, since we are a hosted environment and running ITX embedded within ITXA, file system access is not an option. We would like to be able to use ITX to produce PDF and Excel files using the P...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered

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