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Sterling Transformation Extender

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ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration
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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

generate a PDF file with the images and tables using the details in the received input file.

PDF adapter needs more power to generate pdf files with images and tables using the data from the input file/message.
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

ITX 277CA Processing

Allow for detection of syntactical error in claim by STC0101, and also including an Entity code so that resultant 277CA is valid per use of the STC0102 value of 19: At each HL level in the 277, there could be rejected claim(s) due to invalid synta...

Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

PGP Adapter : Enable support for different Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm

The OpenPGP adapter does not support all of the latest set of Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm natively. Below are the list of supported values Compression types (-COMALG) : ZLIB Encryption Algorithm (-ENCALG ) : 3DES , RIJNDAEL256...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 7 Needs more information

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Containers should support logging to filesystem, console, or both.

Our containers need to be configurable via helm to log to either a persistent volume, the console, or both. A lot of our containers today support either console or persistent volume but do not allow both at the same time.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0

Sample Data for NCPDP D.0 all types

We would like to get some sample data for NCPDP D.0 all types, or a functionality to create proper sample data which aligns with all the component rules and restrictions.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review