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Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director

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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.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Don't automatcally load codes into fields when creating a new map.

When a new map is created, the fields that have codes associated with them automatically load as a standard rule. Although they're loaded, they don't do anything unless you set them but the field is still marked that there's a rule set on it. If t...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Ability to signal a translation error if the max number of loops is reached in a map.

You can indicate the maximum number of loops in a map, but have no way to trigger a translation error if that limit is reached. Currently if the translator hits the maximum number of loops, it does not signal an error but continues on with documen...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Sanity check on number of overall segments or size of resulting document during an import translation

Mapping errors can cause extremely large documents to be created. Currently there is no way to limit this. It should be possible to set a maximum number of segments for a document or on its resulting size and signal a translation error if that thr...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

FTP mailbox is not holding FileName as collected from MGET/GET to be used or reviewed in the mclient mailbox manager display

Files are successfully pulled from an FTP server. The filename is not captured and thus the column/field is blank when displayed and passed to recipient mailboxes.Customer wants to use the filename for routing and declaration of what is inside the...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 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.
about 6 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.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement for Gentran: Server for Windows

I need to be able to create ddf files from SAP data.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Invalid cerror field should cause a compile error

If you use a variable instead of an input field in the cerror statement, it compiles fine, but the map will not run. There is no output, no trans.ord file, and the dtlLog.err file contains only begin and end tags. An invalid cerror field should be...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Gentran Server Workbench Needs to Support AIX 7.1

Currently Gentran Workbench 6.2 only supports the UNIX operating system up to AIX 6.2. Since support of AIX 6.2 ends April 2017, the software should be upgraded to allow for this.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Planned for future release