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Sterling Transformation Extender

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format string parser

Please add a parser/validator of format srings into the compiler, so that WTX developers are being notified of invalid format strings that won't work in the WTX engine.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Make the "use ellipses button" a display option

The Map Designer provides a way to use ellipses when draggin'-n-dropin' type references into a rule. This is very nice to make rules more compact and usually improves readability. However, "getting back" to the referenced type is sometimes an issu...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

use ressource registry for mdq login data

In order to address the different configuration items between production, integration and development environment, WTX offers a ressource registry. We can define the different names of a queue manager, for example: $QMN in production resolves to Q...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Management Tools 0 Not under consideration

static nature of calling TX maps from Java

currently, the APIs to call maps via Java works well. However, when a map is instantiated, it is via static method. Further attempts to instantiate the same class throws an error. IBM to look at this and see if there is someway to relax this behav...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

DFDL support in ITX

The use of DFDL for data format definition is getting popular especially in IBM products. Please add DFDL into ITX as a standard
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 0 Not under consideration

Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

Enhance a import feature to import JSON SCHEMA and Swagger(YAML) as type tree

Currently we have capability in ITX to import the JSON file as type tree. But we have a challenge that customers might give all the possible fields and group which are mandatory/conditional in the JSON test file during development. So we end up wi...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

The need to sometimes have audit / trace created in the locations compiled in when using the REST API of ITX version 10

Observed that when Directory name is set as "Custom" and relative path is mentioned - Audit/Trace File is not created in relative path directory with mentioned name when audit and trace settings is set to "ON" and maps are triggered using REST API...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. A sample message can be provided if needed. Can the nex...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration