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Implement HACP EE Support for Secure FTP (like HOD)

Please implement Secure FTP in HACP EE similar to HOD Secure FTP functionality.
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE support for Thai codepage.

Due to JAVA applet and webstart will deprecate in JDK9. Customer want to change from HOD to HACP EE. But current HACP EE not support Thai codepage. Please consider to add support for Thai code page (838).
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

HoD files processed before they are full generated

Greetings, The files from HoD are processed via Docpath before all the information was store in the files by HoD. Please, make sure only files .spl with the full information are in the destination folder.
11 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

Allow for SFTP and Tectia server

Tectia Server in IBM Z/OS use file transfer to MVS dataset (FTADV – File Transfer Advice String) using SFTP protocol in the Mainframe. HOD Dev team investigated the code including on the mainframe end. After discussion with the Development manager...
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

GET a message on HOD logs or a Popup

HOD :Server presented a certificate that was not trusted (Comm 662)
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Create latest HOD package in Docker Container

Bureau of Fiscal Service is currently upgrading Host On Demand implementation and moving from AIX to RHEL and to the latest version of HOD.
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

Add a switch which can toggle set or not those 2 jsse2 providers in HODJSSEImpl

We found the below 2 lines of code in class com.ibm.eNetwork.security.ssl.HODJSSEImpl will impact to other HTTPS connecitons in same JVM. //Security.setProperty("ssl.SocketFactory.provider", "com.ibm.jsse2.SSLSocketFactoryImpl");//Security.setProp...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

About order of file transter lists on Host On-Demand V11

Currently, order of the file transfer list is random.This customer uses many file transfer lists which include DBCS characters.Therefore it's very hard to find the required file from the lists.He strongly requested to improve the order of the file...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

HOD 655 error for VT display session during report generation for 5 minutes or more

we cannot use HOD to perform our Business-related functions due to reverting back to the logon screen when generating reports.
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

PCOMM Data transfert dialog to remove button which allows to swap from receive to send mode

We want to block under PCOMM the sending of data from the workstation to our AS400 for security reasonsWe want to keep the extractions of the AS400 to the workstation by the reception optionWe have disabled the sending of data in the menus of the ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release