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Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director

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Allow GSW to print to multiple printers in a non-distributed environment

Currently Gentran:Server for Windows only prints to the default printer (in a non-distributed environment). This request would allow the user to select any registered printer to print depending on the type of document to be printed. In addition th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

IBM Gentran Server's compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

Ability for Gentran to communicate with unicode with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
about 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director 0 Not under consideration

Managed AS2

Trying to make a new connection with Tracelink in order to transfer serial# information for drug products to comply with Pharmaceutical Industry Serialization requirements.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

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

Gentran 5.3.1 will not install on Windows 10

We cannot install Gentran Server for Windows on a Windows 10 machine.
almost 7 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.
almost 7 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\...
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

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