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Tab sessions on PCOMM (like HOD)

It would be very helpful if PCOMM could display all active sessions as tabs within a single window, similar to how HOD does. Currently, a separate window is required for each new session launched. As a mainframe operator, I need to log in to multi...
3 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Future consideration

Add Date Time to PCOM Terminal Status Bar

When taking screen shots, it would be helpful to be able to see the PC date/time in the Workspace Status Bar.
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Future consideration

Button switch hebrew/english

we have some problem with pcom to write in the same sentence in english and in hebrew the BID LTR or RTL is is difficult to use them and i think to work easier you must create a button at the top HEADER to swicth english to hebrew and the contrary...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Future consideration

Add more screen size options to the pull-down choices.

Can we add 51x133 and 62x142 screen size options to the pull-down choices? The options available are a bit “odd” when working in certain mainframe applications, like TSO/ISPF, which outside of green-screen CICS. For examples, 27x132 gives poor hei...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Future consideration

PCOM FTP client file size limitation

PCOM FTP client fails to transfer file size close to or bigger than 1 GB and recommended to transfer about 200MB size of files for best performance, TS008008701. There is no file size limitation for well-known FTP clients, Winscp or FileZilla. I s...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Future consideration

Larger packet size needed for IND$FILE and P-COMM download/upload

I request the next version/release of IBM P-COMM (and corresponding IND$FILE in MVS/TSO) to allow larger SendBufferSize values (e.g. 64000, 128000, 256000, 512000, 1024000, 2048000, 4096000, 8192000). This is needed for faster download/upload spee...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to trim trailing spaces from each line of text when pasting multi-line text, not just the last line.

Ticket TS007840953 opened for this issue and was recommended to open a RFE. Currently when copying/pasting multi-line text only the last line of text has the trailing spaces trimmed. We would like the option to trim trailing spaces from all lines ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Future consideration

Add functionality to COPY command to only copy user data from 3270 screen and not protected field data.

When copying 3270 screen information to paste to another screen the COPY command should have an option to not copy protected fields and only copy user data fields. Ticket TS007753709 opened with support and it was suggested to submit a RFE.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Future consideration

Personal Communication iASP enable for file Transfer

Enable to access iASP when using File transfer(Send & Receive) option within Personal Communication. I also open TS006404568
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Future consideration

Support for BIFF8 and higher EXCEL file format specifications in IBM Personal Communications.

Currently IBM PCOMM supports BIFF (BIFF4 and BIFF5) for Data Transfer utility and Copy operations. PCOMM has to be enhanced to support higher EXCEL file formats.PMR 22610,999,760 was converted to case TS003171311.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Future consideration