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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 ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

HOD 14.0.2 Secure FTP with JSSE enabled - Issue with performance

When using HOD 14.02 secure FTP with JSSE enabled there is a noticeable performance issue. Performance means that the rate at which files gets transferred is very slow compared to other FTP tools. HOD tends to process the transfer of files singula...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

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" ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

HEX - Single Sign On with Open ID Connect in HACP EE

HACP EE is a web application which offers a zero foot print host accessFor customers who want to access HACP EE using single sign on should be able to do so using OIDC or Open Id Connect. It is a modern standard for exchanging authenticated end us...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) needs to allow users to save their print jobs on the local PC.

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) needs to allow users to save their print jobs on the local PC instead of users having to download their print jobs each time
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

HEX - need to support local Windows Printer option like Host On-Demand (HOD)

RAI users need to be able to print in Windows Printer option
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

HOD toolkit integration with EHLLAPI

Need to enable EHLLAPI property in TOOLKIT which will help to integrate mainframe applications with Pega software Automation tool - Robotic Desktop Automation. As per HOD development team, this feature is not present in existing product. Hence rai...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

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
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Support LDAP with Microsoft AD for HOD

Support data store in Microsoft AD using LDAP for HOD.Currently it is already supported for IBM LDAP Server.
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered