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

Powershell Library for PCOMM

Social Security Administration is looking to improve some automated actions in conjunction with the PCOMM application. Powershell libraries would allow us to accomplish our tasks in a more reliable fashion than current practices.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

PCOMM/HACP support to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

PCOMM needs to be installed in Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop. SF Case # TS006682454.
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 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...
over 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.
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Printing using PDT on Windows 10

When using a PDT file to print on Windows 10, nothing gets printed. If we uncheck the "Use PDT" option something gets printed but without the required formatting. Since printing was fine using PDT files in Windows 7, this clearly has to do with th...
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Enhancement to printing to Disk with Append

1) Need the ability to clear the print file between print Collections. After doing a 'Purge Collection' we would like the Print file cleared for the next set of Print Collection Screens. 2) We would like to be able to create a Word Document (.doc)...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Quick Connect Bar

We disable the Quick Connect Bar via GPO. We need these ADM files to be converted to ADMX and ADML format.
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

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