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Status Functionality already exists
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 19, 2025

Scrubbing Feature

Today I have to use the Command Line Adapter to scrub the file by calling a custom script. It would be nice to have an out of the box scrubbing capability (e.g., replacing ! with | or removing all delimiters from a source file that could impact EDI translation) 

  • Admin
    Mark Allen
    Jun 4, 2025

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas.

    We have reviewed this request with our technical team and have determined that we may already support the use case you have described in your request.

    We have this feature available in our Sterling FIle Gateway solution that runs on top of B2B Integrator. In the Routing Channel Templates, you can perform character substitutions and removing delimiters as described. Another alternative would be to write a Business Process to automate this scrubbing so that manual Command Line Adapter commands are not needed.

    If we have misunderstood your request, please let us know and provide additional details so that we can better understand the requirement. If you have any additional feedback or thoughts in the meantime, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation.