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Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director

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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

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 3 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...
over 4 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...
almost 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...
about 6 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...
about 6 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...
about 6 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.
about 6 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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration