Introduction

IBM Sterling Transformation Extender for Red Hat OpenShift, formerly known as IBM Sterling Transformation Extender Runtime Server, is a packaging of the IBM Sterling Transformation Extender (ITX) runtime product in the form of a Linux container image. The container image, ibm-itx-rs, is an IBM Certified Container Software that exposes REST API endpoints to deploy and invoke pre-compiled ITX maps.

This document describes running the container in a standalone docker environment. It also provides information about deploying the container to Red Hat OpenShift cluster through Helm Chart. This document supplements the information provided in the CASE (Container Application Software for Enterprises) bundle documentation for ITX Runtime Server.

Information about Industry and Enterprise Packs distributed by the product and setting up those Packs for the ITX Runtime Server has been provided for Packs users.

For additional high-level overview of the ITX Runtime Server product, see IBM Support page.

The following is a list of high-level features provided by the ITX Runtime Server:

• Uploading, listing, downloading, and deleting compiled ITX maps and other files.
• Listing and downloading generated REST API server and map execution engine log files.
• Fenced (REST API server and map execution engine running in the separate processes) and unfenced (REST API server and map execution engine running in same process) run mode.
• Synchronous and asynchronous map executions.
• Cataloging support for the maps, with the REST API endpoints automatically generated for the produced map catalog entries.
• Direct map execution and execution via cataloged map REST APIs.
• Ability to override map inputs and outputs with the REST API request and response data.