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IBM Host On-Demand

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Cross hair support in the 3270 Host emulator Cursor RDz

The 3270 emulators ( PCOMM for example), supports Cross-Hair cursor ( also called Cross Line - where you have vertical and Horizontal lines in the 3270 cursor) , and we request the same feature in the 3270 Host emulator of RDz.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

Enhance Licence Manager fixes release

Implement proper version control and provide fix list for each version release of IBM Host Integration License Manager. As en example on fix central you can find: fix pack: HI_v13.0.0_LicenseManger fix pack: HI_13.0_LicenseManager for the product ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Not under consideration

LDAP authentication on HOD Licence Manager

Add the possibility to configure Host On Demand Licence Manager to use LDAP as authentication method. Adding options of Administrator and Monitor roles based on LDAP groups.
about 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

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 HTML Override Functionality with Web Start

With browsers ending support for NPAPI plugins (with the exception of Internet Explorer, whose last version will be 11 and will seemingly be retired with the end of the Windows 10 support lifecycle), the direction is to move to using Web Start cli...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Large Documents are printed with missing information

We noticed some documents are arriving incomplete to Docpath. These documents have many pages, and each time we try to print them, we are having randomly several pages (never the full document). After checking, we realized that the files .spl requ...
12 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

View print job button is not working as expected

The view print job button appears disabled when trying to click it (see image attatched)
12 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Host Graphics support in SWT Beans

Host Graphics support has been added to HOD but it is also required in SWT Terminal for use by the Host Connect Emulator in RDz.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 4 Not under consideration

Single Sign On with SAML and Microsoft AD in HACP EE

Single Sign On with SAML:Provide a single sign on feature in HACP EE with SAML as the protocol and Microsoft AD as the directory server.LDAP is used as a protocol of choice for on-prem authentication for tools like HOD.HACP EE is a web application...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration