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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 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

New install option to disable Kerberos Authentication

We have Blue Prism RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in use to automate TN3270 access. If IBM Personal Communication is also installed on the same machine Blue Prism Login Agent is not connecting. This problem is caused by the Kerberos feature of P...
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

PCOMM support display EBCDIC code range from CF41 to F786 Chinese Character

in case# TS002613682, PCOMM is not able to render Chinese character which EBCDIC code range from CF41 to F786 due to its implementation using an old method of converting host chars to Chinese GBK before rendering on the screen.
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

registry entry LastExitViewFromINI customizable during installation

it would be very helpful for us, when we could decide wether registry entry LastExitViewFromINI is set to T or F during installation since there are different scenarios on our site for the usage of pcom. scenario 1: installation on personalized wo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Personal Communication iASP enable for file Transfer

Enable to access iASP when using File transfer(Send & Receive) option within Personal Communication. I also open TS006404568
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Support for BIFF8 and higher EXCEL file format specifications in IBM Personal Communications.

Currently IBM PCOMM supports BIFF (BIFF4 and BIFF5) for Data Transfer utility and Copy operations. PCOMM has to be enhanced to support higher EXCEL file formats.PMR 22610,999,760 was converted to case TS003171311.
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Macro PasteText API

There's an issue with copying and pasting text from excel to PComm.. I have informed the development team about this missing feature in current PCOMM automation library autECLPS.PasteText. Currently while copying the clipboard content in the PCOMM...
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

TN3270 auto-reconnect timer

Implement new timers in Personnal Communications for user to control TN3270 auto-reconnect.1) Reconnect time interval t - When TN3270 connection is dropped, after t seconds, auto-reconnect again.2) For the same TN3270 connection, try n auto-reconn...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Planned for future release

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