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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...
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...

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Gentran 5.3.1 will not install on Windows 10

We cannot install Gentran Server for Windows on a Windows 10 machine.
about 6 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.
about 6 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\...
about 6 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...
about 6 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...
about 6 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...
about 6 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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Security 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...
about 6 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.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 1 Not under consideration

Extended Rule - GOTO and Call Features

Hello, Gentran Server for Windows is great, but we need a few new tools for the extended rules. 1- We need a GOTO statement. 2- We need to be able to call a saved rule from within an extended rule. Sure, we can copy paste the same code in each map...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration