Ask them about GAF Corp in Wayne NJ. They use Gentran on HP9000s. They
*DO* have the product. If they say not, ask for a supervisor. Keep going
up the line. If you have to, menthion Lou Spreitzer. He was a pretty big
name when I did GAF's HP9000 Gentran Maps (using the HP3000 Gentran Maps
I did for Leslie-Locke before GAF bought them.

Rick Gilligan wrote:
>
> Greg Stigers wrote:
>
> > I found the following at
> > http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/about/partners/technology/hp.html,
> > where Sterling Commerce discusses its partners, and on this page,
> > HP:The CONNECT product family supports the latest PA-RISC-based
> > HP 9000 and 3000 systems and the popular Windows NT-based HP
> > NetServer product family.
>
> > That's much more like it! It's not exactly in the collating
> > sequence I would like to see, but it isn't last, or barely
> > mentioned under anyone's breath.  It's just right there, plain
> > as day, for anyone to see, the latest PA-RISC-based HP...
> > 3000... Someone is proud of their work here.
>
> I had found that too, but when you call Sterling, they know NOTHING about
> this.  And I was speaking to their partnership marketing people and also
> their technical people.  I mentioned the page you had also found, and
> their response was that basically there was no such product available for
> MPE/iX and they were not planning on having one.
>
> I also had brought the subject up with Alvina Nishimoto, from HP, and I
> believe she got the same response from them.
>
> Too bad.  This seems to be the current (for now) standard, in the banking
> community, for secure file transfers between various systems, including
> mainframes.
>
> These discussions were in May of this year.  Perhaps something has
> changed, but don't count on that CONNECT:Direct being available on the
> 3000.
>
> Sorry to burst your bubble.  I wish we had more software partners in the
> 3000 market.
>
> Rick