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Clean the map cache without restarting launcher

Today every time we need to change a map in launcher environment the launcher has to be restarted because the maps are cached there.It doesn't matter if the maps are used directly in the flow or ran by RUN function. For High Availability productio...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Add new packages to ITX docker images

Request to install the following packages as part of ITX docker images 1) install gawk.2) install realpath
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

IBM Gentran Server's compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

Ability for Gentran to communicate with unicode with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director 0 Not under consideration

Managed AS2

Trying to make a new connection with Tracelink in order to transfer serial# information for drug products to comply with Pharmaceutical Industry Serialization requirements.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Gentran 5.3.1 will not install on Windows 10

We cannot install Gentran Server for Windows on a Windows 10 machine.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Be able to dynamically pass parameters into Stored Procedure on Output side with ODBC map

Currently the Gentran:Server for Windows 5.3.1 integration application has limitation. It has no capability to dynamically pass in parameters into stored procedure to be used on output side for Inbound map.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Print to PDF file

Need to print to PDF printers which will generate a PDF file. Process currently works when printing manually from In Documents. Process will not work when driven by process control.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 1 Not under consideration

Extended Rule - GOTO and Call Features

Hello, Gentran Server for Windows is great, but we need a few new tools for the extended rules. 1- We need a GOTO statement. 2- We need to be able to call a saved rule from within an extended rule. Sure, we can copy paste the same code in each map...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Reset reused workfiles for maps in the Launcher

Reusing workfiles makes map faster as it speeds up the alidation process. However, changes in data mean special care has to be taken to avoid issues for the concerned maps. Currently, one has to manually remove the workfiles after the Launcher was...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Reset Launcher "Black list" for failed messages

Whenever a message triggers a map failure, even if the failure is not related to the message's content, the message is blacklisted by the launcher and will not be trigered again. This avoids "poison messages" but needs a restart to have the messag...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration