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Enable copying of presentation space as HTML/RTF

Other terminal emulators offer copying of the text in the presentation space in a format that preserves colors and monospace font choice, which is very useful for including in the documents. PCOMM only offers an option to copy the presentation spa...
21 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Under review

Tab sessions on PCOMM (like HOD)

It would be very helpful if PCOMM could display all active sessions as tabs within a single window, similar to how HOD does. Currently, a separate window is required for each new session launched. As a mainframe operator, I need to log in to multi...
3 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Future consideration

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
about 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
over 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Allow paste to overwrite to end of line

Other 3270 emulators, such as Attachmate Extra! have the ability for a paste to overwrite to end of line, and not just by the length of the copied data. I would like to see this ability in PCOMM. When copying data, you should be able to flag a set...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Convert old Raster fonts into TTF fonts

I would like to see the remaining raster fonts that are in the PCOMM font list to be converted into True Type Fonts (TTF) to accomplish a few things: 1) This would allow enabling of the font change option on a maximinzed window (in line with what ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

Host code-page 838Thai with Windows regional format as English

Users will get more benefit if PCOMM can support 838Thai with Windows regional format as English because users will not manually switch regional format between English and Thai when they use Microsoft Excel.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

PCOMM to have mouse wheel customizeable

It would be nice if users could configure the mouse wheel on PCOMM settings.This would allow for a way more dynamic scroll on z/OS syslog, netlog, dataset list, dataset contents, etc.Other 3270 emulators already do that and this would be a nice fe...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration