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Sterling Transformation Extender

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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
about 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...
about 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?
about 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...
about 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 ...
about 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...
about 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.
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered

Version information for compiled map

In my opinion each map shold have some kind of header, which include some information as version, time and date when was build or maybe other. This information should be readble from binary map by command server e.g.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Delivered

add finctions to support Timezone in ITX

ITX lacks in Timezone based functions. we require functions to support 1) get current time in timezone2) get current time in UTC3) covert input timestamp to timezone.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered