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HOD v14.0.2. FTP client does not support the SECURE SESSION REUSE feature

HOD FTP Client is the most used FTP client in our environment.As we're using FTPS with TLS 1.2 at the moment, we couldn't use SECURE_SESSION_REUSE parameter with REQUIRED value, as HOD does not support this FTP feature.I'm opening this RFE to impl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Norwegian codepage support (1142 and 277) for HACP EE

We need Norwegian codepage support (1142 and 277) in HACP EE. The major difference between Norwegian and Swedish is : Swedish codepage has ä, ö, Ä, Ö, where as Norwegian code page must have æ, ø, Æ, Ø. BTW. The Swedish codepages 1143 ad 278 are al...
about 2 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 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

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

Modify the iOS (iPad) virtual keyboard for HACP Extended Edition so that it does not cover the 3270 emulator session.

HACP Extended Edition is being evaluated a replacement solution to legacy handheld scanners used to connect to mainframe 3270 emulation sessions. In the current state, the iPad virtual keyboard covers portions of the ISPF 3270 session, making it d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Support codepage 500 and 1148 with HACP EE

Our systems are configured with codepage 500. To be able to use HACP EE it is mandatory that it supports codepage 500 (Multilingual ) and 1148 (Multilingual with EURO).
5 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

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

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

Implement HACP EE Support for Secure FTP (like HOD)

Please implement Secure FTP in HACP EE similar to HOD Secure FTP functionality.
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 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