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Support PDT files with IPP

We are preparing for the implementation of IPP (Internet Print Protocol) in our agency. Beginning in 2025, Microsoft will no longer publish new print drivers. By 2027, 3rd party print driver updates will no longer be allowed. We have legacy applic...
4 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

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 ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Under review

Native InTune package and customizations

Creation of a native Intune deployment for IBM Personal Communications including default settings and customizations. We would like to use the native deployment methods of Microsoft Intune to deploy and automatically update PComm. Example would be...
about 1 month ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

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

SCRATCHPAD inhibit

For security reasons we have been asked to inhibit the following pcomm menu option: Actions- Launch - Scracht Pad How can this be done?
5 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Allow input fields to always be high lighted

Currently PCOMM doesn't provide explicit options to always have user input fields high lighted. When migrating from other TN3270 packages (notably Reflections and Host Explorer) the user base is accustomed to this feature and it is a top request f...
6 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Removal of Interactive Service for PCONMM Service

Windows reports on interactive services as an error in Windows system logs (see attached screenshot). https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/we-noticed-that-the-interactive-services-detection/fad0c42f-9d12-4cf6-a54a-2f9cf8731e4f. We...
6 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 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

Make larger fonts available

With the advent of larger Personal Computer screens, it would make sense to allow larger fonts to be used. For example, I have a with a resolution of 1920x1080. If I want PCOM to use the full screen, the terminal window can take up the full screen...
9 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

BAR file image maps in PComm; Toolbar horizontal scrolling

IBM/HCL to fix images that are used in the .bar file to not need a image home folder, but allow us to imbed the images as part of the session files so when we deploy sessions, we don’t have to worry about toolbar mapping of images to a specific fo...
12 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

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