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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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print document from ?In

enhancement request to allow printing of a document from the ?In documents
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance Securtiy Matrix to allow for display only

The Security Matrix options do not provide for "display" only mode for certain components of the system. Partner Profiles is an example of one such area that cannot be viewed without alos granting edit capability. The request is to enahance securi...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Security 0 Future consideration

Unicode support for SAP IDOC flatfiles

According to the PMR 69372,082,000, Gentran:Server for Windows does not support Unicode for SAP flatfile IDOCs. The enhancement request is to add Unicode support for SAP IDOCs that are created as flatfile format.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration

Need to Print From ?InBox

We need the ability to print the rejected invoices so processors can scan and key them manually
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration

support the %U file name convention in process control

support the %U file naming convention in process control. The customer requests supporting %U in the File Name field (under the Command field which contains GDW_Audit_Rpt for example) in Process Control. Customer - Tommy Vinson tvinson@piolaxusa.com
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Future consideration

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 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Gentran DTM segments past 12/31/2036

Receiving dates beyond 12/31/2036 that fail as invalid dates. Chrysler is sending us dates out to 12/31/9999 that we map to an ODBC map. Need Gentran 5.1 to accept dates beyond 12/31/2036 as valid. See PM 33088,082,000 for further details.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Request for an event that deletes mailbox messages, similar to GDW_Document_Purge and GDW_ExtData_Delete

Request for an event that deletes mailbox messages, similar to the GDW_Document_Purge and GDW_ExtData_Delete events that allow deleting documents and external data files by configurable criteria (e.g. mailbox name, partner code, direction, status,...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 0 Future consideration

EDIMGR: Add date/time column to the listviews/listboxes of the In and Out drawer documents

When viewing documents in the In and Out drawers, we very often need to sort the documents by "date/time processed" to get an overview of the latest processed documents. However, only these columns are available:PartnerTypeNameStatusRefData As wor...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration

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 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 1 Not under consideration