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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Enhance the Excel adapter design to accommodate\control Excel worksheet cell properties for data added by the Excel adapter.

We would like to create $ input amounts as a 'CURRENCY' field. Since the adapter only handles output as General TEXT format we are confined to this format and no other.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 4 Not under consideration

PGP Adapter : Enable support for different Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm

The OpenPGP adapter does not support all of the latest set of Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm natively. Below are the list of supported values Compression types (-COMALG) : ZLIB Encryption Algorithm (-ENCALG ) : 3DES , RIJNDAEL256...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to the file adapter to alter cardsetting TargetRule::Target::Transaction

Currently one is dependent on the outputcard setting if a file is created or not. It's not possible to pass a parameter/setting to make sure a file is only CreateOnContent, resulting in zero-byte files if the setting is Create. The same applies to...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 4 Not under consideration

Add option to HTTP adapter to set the GSK-var DTX_GSK_SSL_EXTN_SERVERNAME_REQUEST

It's currently only possible to have 1 server/ip in this env. var : DTX_GSK_SSL_EXTN_SERVERNAME_REQUEST This is global to all mappings/adapters This enhancement would make it possible to set this GSK-var per mapping/adapter if more than 1 server y...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 3 Not under consideration

Map incoming XML workbook to Several Worksheets

We are attempting to use one Excel sheet and map data from an incoming xml file to several worksheets. XML_to_Excel.mms attempts to put data in 'Required Information' worksheet and also 'Insurance advances' worksheet using two output cards. When w...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Future consideration

Add Ability To Configure Where Launcher Logs Are Written

We are starting to use the Launcher image to deploy and run Launcher in containers. The Launcher Logs are written to <itx_install_dir>/logs by default, and there is no way to change where these logs are written. So, when the pod/container is...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 2 Functionality already exists

Utility to check compatibility and compliance of maps when upgrading to a new ITX version

ITX to provide an utility that can check if th existing maps are compatible with the new version of ITX or needs recompilation/modification. For shops with hundreds of maps this will identify the maps that need some action, hence improving the mig...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 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...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

ITX should be system aware with regard to the 'Native' Data language (i.e. code page) for non-Unicode applications, not hard coded to ISO-8859-1 on Windows machines.

See Case numberTS004330611 in ITX support.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration