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Host On Demand License manager logs rotate.

The License manager for Host On Demand, running on WAS Liberty generates a log file for the license usage. It's required to have functions for logrotate making the file be generated daily so that afterwards the daily files can be archived. <use...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Update HOD supported ciphers to match industry standards

The Terminal Emulator does not support the current industry standard ciphers. We are requesting that the following ciphers be added to the list of supported ciphers for the Terminal Emulator: #Use only fips certified ciphersCiphers aes128-ctr,aes1...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Use locale in log records of HACP Licensemanager

Case TS004323939we are using the Licensemanager and have recognized that alle the log entries are logged in GMT. Is it possible to change the time of the logging entries to local time. Is there any properties file which can be used to change the u...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Delivered

HOD support for Java v11 needed

Currently HOD session sets will not use Java v11. The problem is that Java 1.8.0_291 is at end of support 3/2022 and Citibank is in the process of rolling out Java 11.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Delivered

HOD - TLS 1.2 support with MSCAPI

We need to be able to configure HOD with TLS 1.2 using MSCAPI because with JSSE, it is not possible to pre-configure for TLS 1.2. With tens of thousands of users having to manual configure as the product is currently designed is not manageable and...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

HACP EE to support Liberty Server

HACP EE today is supported only on WebSphere Application Server. Most customers today prefer to use Liberty Server. Requesting that HACP EE support Liberty Server.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Host On Demand - change the encryption of the sessions to TLS 1.2

Our problem with Host On Demand is this:Because of security we have the requirement to change the encryption of the sessions to TLS 1.2 We have nearly 10000 server based clients each with 6 sessions. I asked IBM how to do this changes and the answ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Delivered

Do not require ADMIN for Installation Manager and HOD install on z/OS

The installation of HOD 12 requires that the IBM Installation Manager be installed in ADMIN mode. Other products like WAS allow you to use USER or GROUP modes which are more secure. The requirements for ADMIN mode are that the user be defined as U...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

HACP EE WAS Liberty Support

WAS Liberty support and instructions for HACP EE are desired. WAS Liberty is provided as a base element in z/OS by IBM, and this would be a good option to host HACP EE alongside HOD on the same z/OS host(s) for z/OS customers. A lightweight and ea...
about 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

End of support NPAPI

Firefox has recently announced that it will be dropping its NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plugin support by the end of 2016. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in its Edge browser in Windows 10. Google Chrome has dropped N...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Delivered