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Sterling Transformation Extender

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ORACLE adapter cannot take benefit of DEFAULT values

We have maps which need to be able to use the DEFAULT value for some columnes, based on business rules. At the moment, there's no way to use the DEFAULT values, and a DEFAULT ON NULL does not solve all our issues.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

redesign Oracle adapter for BLOB datatype

The current Oracle Adapter has the following restriction: columns with datatype BLOB can be used on input/output cards only. It's not possible to use them in DBQUERY/DBLOOKUP commands due to string restrictions that are caused by the fundamental a...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Update to the Database Designer

Can the database designer be updated to import fields by character, in addition to bytes? There is an inconsistency with the current byte sizing when importing objects from a Unicode/UTF-8 database.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

mcompile results should be consistent

Current version (9.0.0.2) added a feature where timestamp based information is added to the compiled maps.We request to have this information optional and not by default.We also request to have the feature extended so that we can inject appropriat...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 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

Make (un)zip work in memory like excel adapter

We're working with a MQ-ACE-ITX setup. Being able to use (un)zip in memory would make it possible to work without temp-files to store the data. The excel-adapter has a switch to store/update stuff in memory, a similar way for (un)zip would be great.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Future consideration

Expand MapName Field

Expanding the map name field will help us us maintain standard Map naming convention with proper description of the map function and the associated standards. The current limitation of 32 bytes is not sufficient. Other mapping tools like Sterling ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Needs more information

Enabling support for FF0D in ITX for ibm-930 code page

When we receive FF0D character in request to Datapower service, ITX map is unable to handle in ibm-930 code page. Can you please enhance ibm-930 code page to handle FF0D character in ITX maps.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration