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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

Need to be HSPD12 compliant

IRS is trying to get Sterling Connect:Direct 6.1 approved for usage in the IRS and it is being requested that we inquire as to why this product is not HSPD12 compliant?
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under 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 4 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

synchronize the versions of JRE in Connect Direct

Install agent is packaged with an older version of Java with numerous security vulnerabilities. Main java : $ ./jre/ibm-java-x86_64-80/jre/bin/java -version java version "1.8.0_261" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.6.15 - pxa6480sr6fp1...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

CD for system i does not have possibility IFS directories and libraries restriction as on other platforms

In CD for unix is possible to define restriction for download and source directories in user map configuration on local functional user. I do not see this possiblity on CD for system i, Please could you add this functionality also for transfer fro...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings?

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings? Say, there was an unwanted outage due to some issue, the report should show the timings and duration of the outage.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Add cipher support

Need to connect to a wide variety of Customers. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9D)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (0xC0,0x9E)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9F)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA0)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA1)TLS_D...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Dual client install ability to access each environments directories

When the client is used as a dual client install (the one client machine can access both production and test installations of GSW) the ability to access each clients directory (Options > Preferences > Directories) would be beneficial for dev...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Make the version info in the banner of the CLI commands (direct, ndmcli, ...) & GUIs consult a file in the install tree

We have received several security findings because CD gives version details that will allow hackers info on how to hack the software.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration