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Protocol enhancement

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Please provide support for these KEX • ecdh-sha2-nistp256 • ecdh-sha2-nistp384 • ecdh-sha2-nistp521 • diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256

We removed diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 due to compliance issue. After that, we can't establish the session using HOD. An SSH session using Tectia works to validate SSHD was functioning on the remote system. Is the...
5 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

User wants to access directly to SPL files without generating PDFs (not always)

PDF files require a lot of storage space that could be saved this way
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Merging several PDFs into one single PDF file

Our customer wants to explore the possibility of having a button that merge several PDF files (provided by View Print Jobs) and producing just one output file.
7 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

HOD FTP need the ability to connect to FTP/S server with Implicit TLS (No AUTH TLS command)

Currently the HOD FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be non...
7 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Support TLS for connections to configuration server (HOMSRV)

Due to DoD/DISA STIG requirements for all connections to be secured via TLS we need the ability to enable TLS for the configuration server (HOMSRV) port 8999. This would allow the credentials used to retrieve or modify the configurations to be kep...
9 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

We need Managed HOD support for Apple Mac M1 chip with the current Ventura operating system and future OS releases.

Ford is moving to allow employees to use Apple laptops for work and the new apple laptops have the Apple M1 chipset instead of intel. HOD is also heavily used in the Ford environment. Since HOD doesn't work for Macs, we were trying to move to use ...
11 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Add a "real" keepalive functionality for HOD Printer Sessions

Using HOD 14.0.5 (and also on 12.0.6) cached client, there is a problem that printer sessions seem to disconnect silently after about 5 minutes, probably because of some networking component cutting the idle connection. The "keepalive connection" ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE Key Mapper - There is no Key Repetition tab to turn it on or off.

When editing a dataset or program or on a CICS screen, holding down the tab or New Line key does not continuously proceed to the next line or editable value. (You must keep pressing the key to go down the page.) In HACP EE key mapper, there is no ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Unable to create macros that are mapped to a hot key.

Mapping keys to Macro functionality is present in HACP EE whereas Menu Command execution is not yet supported in HACP EE. This RFE is being opened per HACP EE Development Team request.
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE 2.2 - Unable to copy and save 3270 sessions

Unable to copy and save 3270 sessions. This RFE is being opened per HACP EE Development Team request.
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

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