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PCOMM and JAWS screen reader

It seems that PCOM has worked with JAWS in the past because the Windows functions used by JAWS provided the information by default. With Windows 10 that is no longer the case.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Workstation Profile Option to disable printing

We need to disallow printing via the Print Screen or Print Graphics. I know that the PCSCMENU.EXE utility allows us to remove the menu entries. However what we need is a single option in the Workstation profile which disables the print function, e...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Have Personal Communications ignore Line Breaks during paste

Currently Personal Communications has the ability to ignore line breaks when pasting data into a VT Session. We would like the same capability when pasting in to a TN3270 session.This is a feature available with the Product we are replacing with P...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

OK BUTTON NOT SHOWN ON LINK PARAMETERS PANEL

From APAR IT14558http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT14558 Error description Personal Communications v12 Windows 10 Unable to press the "OK" button on "Link Parameters" panel in both 3270/5250 Communication -> Configure dialog. ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Be able to change margins in PCOMM

We have users that are copying and pasting text to/from an CICS-application, but the almost missing margins make it harder. The margins are not always that small, it seems to happen with text. An example is the system log in SDSF in z/OS. Only the...
about 7 hours ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Submitted

Support PDT files with IPP

We are preparing for the implementation of IPP (Internet Print Protocol) in our agency. Beginning in 2025, Microsoft will no longer publish new print drivers. By 2027, 3rd party print driver updates will no longer be allowed. We have legacy applic...
16 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

Native InTune package and customizations

Creation of a native Intune deployment for IBM Personal Communications including default settings and customizations. We would like to use the native deployment methods of Microsoft Intune to deploy and automatically update PComm. Example would be...
about 2 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

SCRATCHPAD inhibit

For security reasons we have been asked to inhibit the following pcomm menu option: Actions- Launch - Scracht Pad How can this be done?
6 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Allow input fields to always be high lighted

Currently PCOMM doesn't provide explicit options to always have user input fields high lighted. When migrating from other TN3270 packages (notably Reflections and Host Explorer) the user base is accustomed to this feature and it is a top request f...
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

BAR file image maps in PComm; Toolbar horizontal scrolling

IBM/HCL to fix images that are used in the .bar file to not need a image home folder, but allow us to imbed the images as part of the session files so when we deploy sessions, we don’t have to worry about toolbar mapping of images to a specific fo...
12 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release