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We've run into instance where JSON data has large enough values that some converted over to exponential passed into ITX X12 based maps using the office X12 Type Trees provided by IBM/HCL the translation was successful. However, the output of 2.10704892E7 was just becoming 2.10704892 which is a WAY different output than the exponential equivalent of '21070489.2'.
If you look at the Additional Details I reference the 'authoritative' X12 standards for 'Decimal Numbers' and 2.10704892E7 is a valid and supported format for Decimal Numbers however the in map workaround to support this are cumbersome for something that in theory should just work and be support 'out-of-the-box' and Walmart is and organization that has multiple real life use cases on the Sterling Mapper that leverage Exponential both in the really large amounts, like the above is a PO total, but also in really small as we have Optical orders to specification which commonly require scientific notation precision.
For the moment, we've temporarily worked around this by forcing the input back to be non-exponential. However, this only 'kicks the can down the road' we will eventually need ITX to support X12 standards in supporting Decimal number Exponential notation as we will within a year or a couple years and I suspect we will not be the only X12 user that will need to support such numeric formatting. HIPAA is one of the key ones that comes to mind.
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