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Gentran:Server SMTP is currently not supported with Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocols. We need a solution to make it work once we migrate to SMTP/TLS protocol.

All Gentran Server clients planning to migrate to Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocol.
12 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

Add VDA Version 4938 Global Invoice to Map definitions

This version is required by our trading partners.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Standards 0 Submitted

Disclose installation documents to users

We have documentation regarding Gentran:Director, but the last update is 2011. It looks obsolete. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sterling-gentrandirector-documentation
over 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

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

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 4 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 1 Not under consideration

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 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Don't automatcally load codes into fields when creating a new map.

When a new map is created, the fields that have codes associated with them automatically load as a standard rule. Although they're loaded, they don't do anything unless you set them but the field is still marked that there's a rule set on it. If t...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Ability to signal a translation error if the max number of loops is reached in a map.

You can indicate the maximum number of loops in a map, but have no way to trigger a translation error if that limit is reached. Currently if the translator hits the maximum number of loops, it does not signal an error but continues on with documen...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Sanity check on number of overall segments or size of resulting document during an import translation

Mapping errors can cause extremely large documents to be created. Currently there is no way to limit this. It should be possible to set a maximum number of segments for a document or on its resulting size and signal a translation error if that thr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

FTP mailbox is not holding FileName as collected from MGET/GET to be used or reviewed in the mclient mailbox manager display

Files are successfully pulled from an FTP server. The filename is not captured and thus the column/field is blank when displayed and passed to recipient mailboxes.Customer wants to use the filename for routing and declaration of what is inside the...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Not under consideration

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