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HoD this requires a change from SSLite to JSSE.

We are requested to secure the emulation sessions with TLS1.2.In HoD this requires a change from SSLite to JSSE! We saw a decrease in performance (response times) from SSLite to JSSE between two and three times of the response times per displayed ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

Enable remap keyboard to switch to English language

Currently, HOD version 16 with Hex client can do keyboard remap by assigning key in "Enable Thai mode" but to return back to English, we need to key CTRL+L which is the default. So I would like to request you to enhance the ability to remap keyboa...
11 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

Allow ManagedHOD to work with Apple Dark Mode

More and more users are using Dark mode on their Apple devices as the default theme. We cannot require users to ONLY use light mode in order for them to properly use ManagedHOD. This application should be able to work properly in both light and da...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

HACPEE to permit override Printer LUname

HACPEE v2.0 permits to override the 'Display LUname' (i.e. the 'Terminal LUname') via URL, however, we also need to be able to override the 'Printer LUname' (type LU3) via URL, which currently is not supported. The current print support in HACPEE ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

HOD FTP needs to support Chinese characters

FTP is widely used in Citi for transferring files and some of our users are unable to send files via HOD FTP because it does not currently support Chinese characters . This support is needed for these business to transfer their datasets.
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

HACP EE Host Code page support for 1145 Spanish, 284 Spanish and 1140 Portuguese

This RFE applies to HACP EE.Add Code page support for Spanish 1145-S, Spanish 284-S and Portuguese 1140-PExample: Code point 7B should be represented using Code page ‘Spanish 284' with Ñ
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

Widescreen for BIDI characters

The option - Optimize for Widescreen is available Only for SBCS codepage display sessions not for DBCS or BIDI. Our users have been requesting such an option for many years and we finally thought that with version 15 we would have the option to gi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

HOD Launcher for MAC

Develop an HOD Launcher version for MAC.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

Autostart session in full screen

Current HACPEE behavior is that when a session is opened it starts on a default size and in order to set it on full screen the user has to click on the full screen button. The desired behaviour would be to have a setting that allows the session to...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered

Modify HACPEE interaction with 3rd party PDF Generator

In HACPEE v2.1, it permits interacting with 3rd party SW tools to generate PDF files in the following way:-HACPEE is able to identify the LU3 printer name that has been passed through URL.-Whenever a given LU3 receives data, HACPEE generate the SP...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End Delivered