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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

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

SEAS to allow different passphrase for the KEYCERT and Keystore and Trustore

SEAS has to allow different passphrase for the KEYCERT and Keystore and Trustore. When submitting a CSR to Symantec CA a certificate passphrase has to be setup. Currently it MUST match Keystore and Trustore passphrase or certificate import and/or ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Non SuperUser Node Discovery Permission

Currently the only role within Control Center that can run a Node Discovery is the superuser role. We need this to be a permisson that can be set to other roles.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct to provide for CCSID 1371 extension (EBCDIC MBCS) support

CCSID 1371 extension is recently working by IBM Globalization Center of Competency to release the reserved area from [wards 4A-4B, 92-C1, E3-FE] to accommodate more Traditional Chinese characters. Sterling Connect:Direct should provide the support...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

A hope about the alt.comm.outbound parameter in the netmap.cfg

A hope about the alt.comm.outbound parameter in the netmap.cfg
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of ndmapi_connect_c( )

There is an API in CD, it is ndmapi_connect_c(ERROR_H error, char * ndm_hostname, char * ndm_portname). But we need a new version of this API. It is like this: ndmapi_connect_c(ERROR_H error, char * ndm_hostname, char * ndm_portname, char *user_na...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Capture x509 SSL Exp Dates for Adjacent Nodes

Currently, we cannot find the x.509 Exp Dates in the Copy Termination records for our adjacent nodes. We would like to be able to report on upcoming expired certs for our business partners via an Activity Report.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Event Enhancements

1) In order to use new bucket or to change existing bucket config we have to raise PMR and it is time consuming because of multi team dependency. It will be good if there is API or SST process to update the event configuration. 2) Currently all di...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration