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IBM Personal Communications

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Ergonomic character size

With the availibilty of the large displays like 24" and 27" with their high screen resolution PCOMM no longer provides the required ergonomic minimum character size. Changing the screen resolution does not solve problem, as any screen has only one...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Delivered

PCOMM Password Caching Issue

Per Case number:TS006884623 PCOM stores the IBM i password encrypted in the Registry.When a user has changed their PC password, we update their IBM i password (as well as any other passwords) to the new PC password.The first time they use PCOMM af...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Delivered

Move the cursor to the end of pasted text in a field

Currently when pasting text into any field in PCOMM the cursor remains at the beginning of the field. We would like the ability to change this behavior to have the cursor automatically reposition to the end of the pasted text in the field (IE if w...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Delivered

Add TLSv1.2 support to FTP client of Personal Communications

The Personal Communications FTP Client (as of level 6.0.16) does not support the TLSv1.2 protocol. The highest supported TLS protocol level is TLSv1.0 (see PMR 80620,033,724).TLSv1.0 is outdated for a while. It lacks support for the various securi...
about 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

PCOM needs an option to "hide" an associated printer session

PCOM has no option to hide the associated printer session using the GUI, and the HIDE parameter in .ws file, when coded =Y, does not hide the associated printer.
about 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Delivered

P-COM V13(64bit) EHLLAPI 64bit support

I have an RFE request to IBM Personal Communications(PCOM) V13(64bit).64bit version dose not include EHLLAPI library.(32bit version includes it).
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 4 Delivered

Customized Menu items not used by PCSINIT.WS$ template

Menu delete keywords in the WS file are not immediately used when a new session is created based on the PCSINIT.WS$ template.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Delivered

Old JRE in Personal Communications

Personal Communications v12.x lays down Java JRE 8.0.0 as a convenience, but there is no mechanism to maintain this version to current standards. JRE installation must be optional during the install (and actually work correctly to not install it i...
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Delivered

PCOM paste function doesn't handle negative numbers to spreadsheet

Rumba users migrating to PCOMM. They are copying a numeric value which has a minus sign after the number to indicate a negative value. When they paste the number to Excel, it is copied as is with the minus sign at the end. . For Example, When emul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Delivered

PCOMM v13.0.1.0

The problem is that the first time that a .srl file is to be saved to disk it initially opens in C:\users\<user_id>\appdata\roaming\IBM\Personnal Communications directory. We would like this to initially open at H:\ eliminating the chance of...
about 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Delivered