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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 etc calls from the Sterling Envelope in the same manner as the Sterling Envelope process do behind the scenes today. This way we can run an ITX map with full envelope generation within the ITX Map service. Why? Well this actually seems to be the way ITX is designed to work only with ITXA as the envelope manager but if we already have Sterling doing this we don't really need or want to run two envelope management systems especially if we are going to have Sterling and ITX maps being called for a single partner facing output from parallel internal job runs. Additionally, this would allow us to actually use the ITX Map service within the Sterling BP flow with multiple file inputs and outputs, fully able to leverage ITX's mapping capabilities as calling an ITX map within a Sterling Map call restrict the file input and output to one same as a Sterling Map. This 'IDEA' acompanies another that deals with pain point with using JSON Data with an ITX map within the Sterling 'canned processes' of Document Extraction Service and X12/EDIFACT Envelope Service(s) that are not designed and can not handle JSON data having a single root tag in the same way that XML has and is supported.
  • Guest
  • Apr 25 2022
  • Needs more information
Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation
  • Admin
    Sanjay Jain commented
    29 Jun 03:06pm

    Currently not under consideration for General availability. We might revisit and review for if there are critical business challenges.

  • Guest commented
    19 May 05:32pm

    Guest, sure the other idea is under B2BI-I-1108 the reason that it's not easily identified is because the two ideas are, this one, which is use Sterling Envelopes without the Sterling DocExtract Process and make the process more pure ITX, OR alternatively fix the Sterling DocExtract process so that even if the Sterling mapper isn't likely to support JSON any time soon at least if you are going to support it with ITX support the JSON single root take issue withing DocExtract the way you do XML data, or similarly.

    I'm not sure if I have a strong opinion which one wins out ideally both should be options, my biggest concern is a volleyball match of each side throwing the issue at the fence at one another and neither happening. Which sort of started with the prior incident ticket which only got closed because our present ask needed differed enveloping but we don't want that to be something we need to do for everything because that doesn't always make sense and adds delay to more real time processes.

  • Guest commented
    5 May 03:45pm

    Is the second 'IDEA' is a separate AHA! ? If so, can you provide the number? If not, can you please open one with a bit more detail please?

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