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

dtxmaptrace utility command on AIX

Currently we can only execute the dtxmaptrace.sh to extract the trace information from binary files. Can this be updated to be executed as an utility command, similar to dtxcmdsv?
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Functionality already exists

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 6 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 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Not under consideration

ITX - Expand SERIESTOTEXT function with a delimiter

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function just concatenates the content of an array which doesn't make it useable in my case. Adding an option for a delimiter like SERIESTOTEXT(Field(s), ",") would make a comma-separated string out of the array which wo...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

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 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

ITX - Extend validation exception handling for messages with a known structure BUT an unknown (as more recent) version

Currently ITX FinPay routing map identifies a messages based on the tag <FIToFICstmrCdtTrf> in Document and not based on message name and its version (pacs.008.001.08). This causes a problem when a message based on a more recent version is r...

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

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information

Request for caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter

Hello , We have review your questions and comment with our developers in order for this result caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter, a design change would be needed in order to cache the Oracle statement handle. Currently, WTX Oracle adapter on...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration