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Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director

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IDoc Control Record must contain tag EDI_DC40_U for Foreign Language to be in readable format within the SAP Environment

Changing the Control Record EDI_DC40__ (__ equals two trailing spaces) to EDI_DC40_U (one space and a U). Which when exported to a single file the output is okay, but the very first field in the record is 300, so the output = "EDI_DC40_U300" the f...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by MM/DD/YYYY

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by:MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS It should sort as: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS In Windows 2008 R2, it used to sort as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
over 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need Gentran 5.3.1.4 to support Oracle Database 12C

System: Gentran 5.3.1 (patch level 4)Actor: Oracle database All of the Oracle databases in our organization are being upgraded to Oracle 12C. Gentran 5.3.1 does not support Oracle 12C. In order to stay current and allow our DBAs and support teams ...

Gentran Basic / Enhancement request

We were wondering if there is not a way to do so, if Gentran support can create an enhancement request for outbound mapping to convert binary fields used in the User Ref to numeric display.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

CommPost - Error Opening File

From a scheduled event in the Server Process Control after GDW_MBProcess_File runs and CommPost starts if certain dll's required for the process are not registered the translation fails BUT no error is reported in the AuditLog. When CommPost is in...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support date/time variables in folder names of extraction file mailboxes

We have file system mailboxes that are configured to extract all files sent to a local folder for archiving, e.g. F:\GentranFiles\Outbound. Because of the huge amount of files, we have to archive them by system date, e.g. F:\GentranFiles\Outbound\...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SAP Extension Classic RFC going away

As of SAP release 7.2, the Classic RFC library will no longer supported. It is being replaced by the Netweaver RFC. The two RFC libraries are not binary compatible at the binary level. That is a program written for the classic RFC will not work wi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add more details to "Gentran:Server Mailbox" view

It is difficult to identify the correct Gentran system in the Gentran: Server Mailbox view on the Gentran Client, especially when several Gentran server environments are installed and server name and Gentran system name are not identical. Request:...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need unique return code when commpost is unable to open X12 inbound files.

Need unique return code for X12 inbound files unable to be read. Error - unable to compost error opening file. X12 files are received, but commpost unable to read file. No unique return code is given. Return codes are available on errors created w...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Future consideration

Add parm to STRCOMSSN. SA status *NO or *YES

Create parameter in STRCOMSSN that provides a choice to have SA status interchanges resend automatically or not. RESEND SA: *YES / *NO Must be profile specific.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 1 Future consideration