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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...

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Provide monitoring of Up/Down status for PEM components (PEM,PR,PP,PCM)

Partner Engagement Manager is a core component of a modernized Sterling stack and provides critical partner facing interfaces (both external and internal) that should be monitored. CCM should provide out of the box monitoring for UP/DOWN status an...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Planned for future release

Make Open Telemetry available in CCM

Please make Open telemetry available in CCM. CCM should be able to monitor 1) Queue depth from MQ perspective 2) Loss of connectivity between B2Bi and MQ server. Refer to Idea CCM1-I-382 This was the issue we had in production MQ serve...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Submitted

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

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

Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 2 Under review

Direct connector from ICC to ServiceNow

ICC generates SNMP traps and an intermediate tool captures it and then generates ticket on ServiceNow. This gives less control on how the tickets are generated on an incident management tool. Also, if there is a direct connector, we may also get r...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Submitted

Control Center Monitor should alert us when connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server

We want to be alerted by Control Center Monitor if connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Under review