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

getProperty to be able to decrypt database managed properties

If we enable property encryption by setting up the yfs.propertyencrypter.class property property encryption works only for file based properties. E.g. properties kept in the yfs.properties and yfs.properties_<module id>_ext files or customer...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Password less and password based authentication

Problem: We have trading partners using one CDNode that may have aCDProcess using either snodeid=(id,password) or snodeid=(id) or nosnodeID. When a snodeid=(id,password) is sent, we use SEAS goingto a Directory Server. The backend server is B2Bi a...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

SSP Welcom Page *make change to force 1st time users to change password.

Looking for solution in SSP welcome page for HTTPS users to be forced to change password on initial login. Current versions don't account for attribute in LDS/AD if the account is defined with attribute of expired.. Allowing the user / password to...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Functionality to correctly support multiple SFTP policies in a netmap

We would like to be able to use several SFTP policy in a single netmap (Adapter) with differret SSH authentication method.It will avoid the usage of several adapapters for each authetication method.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 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\...
almost 7 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 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Future consideration

Process Control - UI - option to have comment area & activate/deactivate option

Two parts:a. Process Control UI does not have ability for comment field for Session records. 25-30 characters per line.b. The ability to toggle a line/command as Active or Inactive.At present, you have to delete the line and re-add. It would defau...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 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