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PCOMM/HACP support to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

PCOMM needs to be installed in Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop. SF Case # TS006682454.
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

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.
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Quantum Neuron Cloud

Industry Viable Product & Service
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Implementing trusted fonts in IBM Personal Communications

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almost 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

PCOM should accept MacBook Umlaut keys

PCOM is called from a macbook via Citrix session. We have to enter german text to mainframe panels. PCOM should not ignore the umlaut keys (ü ä ö ß) on the right side of the german Keyboard of a macbook.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Macro PasteText API

There's an issue with copying and pasting text from excel to PComm.. I have informed the development team about this missing feature in current PCOMM automation library autECLPS.PasteText. Currently while copying the clipboard content in the PCOMM...
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

TN3270 auto-reconnect timer

Implement new timers in Personnal Communications for user to control TN3270 auto-reconnect.1) Reconnect time interval t - When TN3270 connection is dropped, after t seconds, auto-reconnect again.2) For the same TN3270 connection, try n auto-reconn...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Planned for future release

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