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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...
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...

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SPE Envelope support for multiple ST/SE loops for non XMl files using the SPE.encode API

SPE.encode() translates a document and wraps the X12 output in ST/SE, GS/GE, and ISA segments. This means that to be compliant the translated output must fit within a single transaction set and a single functional group,which does not follow the H...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Add RND Standard to SPE

Rede Nacional de Dados (RND), the Brazilian automotive standard (which consists of automobile manufacturers and their development partners, the suppliers, and the manufacturers of trailers, body superstructures, and containers)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Add CII Standard to SPE

The CII standard is the EDI standard developed by the Center for the Informatization of Industry in 1991 for use in all industries in Japan as an expanded and reformed standard of the EIAJ standard, which was designed exclusively for electronic in...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Need Gentran 5.3.1.4 to support Oracle Database 12C

System: Gentran 5.3.1 (patch level 4)Actor: Oracle database All of the Oracle databases in our organization are being upgraded to Oracle 12C. Gentran 5.3.1 does not support Oracle 12C. In order to stay current and allow our DBAs and support teams ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Gentran Basic / Enhancement request

We were wondering if there is not a way to do so, if Gentran support can create an enhancement request for outbound mapping to convert binary fields used in the User Ref to numeric display.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

CommPost - Error Opening File

From a scheduled event in the Server Process Control after GDW_MBProcess_File runs and CommPost starts if certain dll's required for the process are not registered the translation fails BUT no error is reported in the AuditLog. When CommPost is in...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add more details to "Gentran:Server Mailbox" view

It is difficult to identify the correct Gentran system in the Gentran: Server Mailbox view on the Gentran Client, especially when several Gentran server environments are installed and server name and Gentran system name are not identical. Request:...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add parm to STRCOMSSN. SA status *NO or *YES

Create parameter in STRCOMSSN that provides a choice to have SA status interchanges resend automatically or not. RESEND SA: *YES / *NO Must be profile specific.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 1 Future consideration

Utility to change computer name

I need to change my computer name. Currently I have to change it in many places, including in the registry. It would be ideal to have a utility to change it in all locations automatically.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

"Limit concurrent process control events" does not apply across the product. It would make sense to be product wide parameter

"Limit concurrent process control events" does not apply across the product. It would make sense to be product wide parameter
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration