We have the same issue. I raised a ticket at Genesys Support but it is hard to explain the difference between alerting and the whisper prompt, as they say alerting is not active on auto-answer. But I sure know it was and sometimes it still is. Now alerting sometimes happens and sometimes it disapears without a cause.
In my opinion it should work in the following order:
1. (short, as auto answer is active) alerting on agent side/ringtone on customer side.
2. Call established between customer and agent.
3. whisper prompt played to agent only(to be determined on queue or default-whisper-prompt from system prompts when field is empty on queue)/silence on customer side.
4. Active voice channel between agent and customer to have the conversation on.
The ticket at Genesys Support is keeping me quite busy but I will share updates in this post. Maybe it is good to raise a ticket from your side as well to bring the issue under the attention.
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Mark Dumee
Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A.
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