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Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director

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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

Enhancement for Gentran: Server for Windows

I need to be able to create ddf files from SAP data.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Invalid cerror field should cause a compile error

If you use a variable instead of an input field in the cerror statement, it compiles fine, but the map will not run. There is no output, no trans.ord file, and the dtlLog.err file contains only begin and end tags. An invalid cerror field should be...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Provide graphical mapping tool for Gentran

Create a visual mapping tool for the Gentran product to provide ease of use features for mapping tasks.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Support for AIX 7.2 for Gentran Server for Unix

Gentran Server for Unix 6.2 needs to be certified to run on AIX 7.2
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration