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Request to Implement FLAG-Based ERN Alerts

ERN configurations rely heavily on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to trigger alerts to the users. This system works well if the sender/receiver/doctype is resolved by the time failure happens. However, if a failure occurs before the met...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

First Message Success Notification from Production Environment

Customer wants IBM to generate "First message success" notification - first successfully processed message via production is generating the success notification (to the pre-configured business users) and then it is turned off automatically
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Add Extrainfo 1, 2 and 3 in ERN Red Light and Yellow Light Notifications.

Add Extrainfo 1, 2 and 3 in ERN Red Light and Yellow Light Notifications. Please include this detail in both Body of the email and the Attachment.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 4 Functionality already exists

Export files in UTF8 format

Gentran exports inbound files in ASCI format. If Netweaver option is select to send the idocs to SAP, the idoc file format has to be in UTF8, this is what IBM suggested. Please add an option in Gentran where files export has an option to select AS...

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

Customized automated report functionality

Earlier we had an option to create customized reports in BPN. This option was sunset and now we are unable to create any new customized reports. We are receiving the new requests from customers to create customized reports based on document type,...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Planned for future release

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.

Ability to configure Quick Notifications for critical transactions in processing state

Priority High Ask Ability to configure Quick Notifications for critical transactions . Details of Ask Currently, we do not have any tool that allows us to configure alerts or notifications with an interval shorter than 30 minutes. ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Future consideration

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration