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Audits / Movement history of products on UI

Today in Store Inventory Management, when an user does a Bulk/Adhoc move, it displays the move complete with the source, target location and qty moved for the SKU. But when you exit this screen, it is not possible to go back and see what movement ...
12 days ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Submitted

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...

Manage Count Programs Through Store Engagement UI

Creating, updating, deleting and viewing Count Programs is inherently a business function that should be self-managed by store managers and store operations business users. Currently, there is no UI in Store Engagement to enable business users to ...
3 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future consideration

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

All store inventory statuses mapped to on-hand should be pickable

Currently, inventory with valid on-hand status is not being picked due to store inventory status mismatch. This results in store inventory being stuck indefinitely and can't be picked to fulfill an outbound order. IBM Support had suggested to do a...
4 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future consideration

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

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

Putaway destination location screen to show location/quantity view

While doing putaway and selecting destination location where item should be put away to, a view showing the current locations where this item is already present in store would be useful on this screen. Along with the location, quantity available a...
10 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future consideration

Enhance Putaway Preferences

As part of this request, we would like to address 2 issues: Putaway preferences are not assigning putaway locations directly (using include/exclude locations) and we had to implement a workaround using location dedication to a specific inventory s...
7 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1

Enable or Disable the view only permissions for the screens in IBM Store Next Gen

We are having a requirement to have view only permission for screens/sections shown in the attached document in Store Engagement. However, when edit permission is enabled then user should be able to modify or perform the specific action in IBM Sto...
7 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Submitted