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Allow GSW to print to multiple printers in a non-distributed environment

Currently Gentran:Server for Windows only prints to the default printer (in a non-distributed environment). This request would allow the user to select any registered printer to print depending on the type of document to be printed. In addition th...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

More uses of resource vars

We have different engineers who all have a different way of storing general used parts of mappings (i.e. TypeTrees). The possibility to use a resource var in the filename parts of input and output cards would help us drastically to maintain a cent...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 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

Display Starting position of the field in field level properties for "FIXED, IMPLICIT" group/file.

In ITX, when the group is defined as fixed and implicit, to identify a field position most of the time we must sum up the field length of previous fields when there is no layout. This would simplify the identification of field in positional files.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 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

Enhance PDF to type tree importer

Currently PDF to type tree importer doesn't work on extensibility on field or data level. Also most version of PDF are not supported. The enhancement of this importing would make is feature more user friend and product usability would increase
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 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

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\...
almost 8 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...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration