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Sterling Transformation Extender

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Compliance Check map to include the CTX segments in the 999 Negative Acknowledgement

the usage of the CTX segment in the 999 would utilized in the LOOP ID - 2100 - AK2/IK3 ERROR IDENTIFICATION. where the Business Unit Identifier can correctly show the transaction error. TR3 rules state "Required when the error reported in this IK3...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 5 Not under consideration

More uses of resource vars

We have different engineers who all have a different way of storing general used parts of mappings (i.e. TypeTrees). The possibility to use a resource var in the filename parts of input and output cards would help us drastically to maintain a cent...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Not under consideration

JSON Outputs are Getting Generated with Indentation Turned OFF

JSON Outputs are Getting Generated with Indentation Turned OFF In ITX Map : When we Import JSON File as a Type Tree, Output Layout by default is getting generated with Indentation Turned off. Currently below are Missing in ITX Type Tree. When we...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

SEARCHUP() & SEARCHDOWN() functions should return all matched records, Instead of first match

Currently SEARCHUP() and SEARCHDOWN() functions return only single object. We need the functionality for these functions to return all matched records instead of one similar to how EXTRACT() function returns data. Using EXTRACT() on large data set...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for ZIP Adapter

ZIP adapter works only with files at present to decompress the zipped data. We request for a enhancement similar to GZIP, where we can decompress using options such as below. for example, the below rule cannot be used in case of a ZIP adapter, GET...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

WTX doesnt support REFCURSOR type from Oracle DB

REFCURSORs are NOT supported by the WTX Oracle adapter.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

Add SFTP adapter to ITX 9

We are using ITX 9 but need to be able to send files using SFTP rather than plain FTP. We would like to see ITX 9 support the SFTP adapter that is available in 10.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

Map report in design server

In Desing studio we have this option to create a map report, Map->generate report. Can we have something like that in desing server version to generate report of the mapping component?
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

The ITX mapper needs to be capable of supporting Sterling B2Bi Envelope/Control Number management is a similar manner to how it support ITXA in order to fully leverage ITX maps within the Sterling B2Bi product

This ask effectively is to expand the Sterling Data Harness called within ITX maps to support more than just delimited from the Sterling Envelope but allow for a get & increment control number(s) as well as all sender/receiver/qualifer/version...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Functions to get internal information from within a running map

For logging/tracing purposes I'd like to be able to get actual information about the mapping/card/function/field I'm currently at. So I can write into a logging about that particular point in the execution. A bit like LASTERRORCODE() or GETRESOURC...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration