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over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

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

PCOMM 1371E support

PCOMMAs PCOMM Development team sayid PCOMM HACP support code page 1371E in version PComm 12.0.3. But according to our test, when PCOMM connecting 1371E on system z, the 1371E characters are working correctly  and the custom conversion function is ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Not under consideration

StandaloneHOD support when javaws becomes deprecated/removed.

This is a request to have the StandAloneHOD in PCOMM to continue to work after java web start is deprecated/removed.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 5 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)...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Personal communication for MAC (i/OS)

Is there a emulator like Personal Communication to connect to z/OS from IBM for MAC?
almost 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Since we upgraded Windows 10 with the redstone SP PCSWS.EXE crashes when closing a 5250 session.

env: windows 10, PComm prb: when closing pc5250 pcsws.exe fails with an application error since updating windows 10 with the redstone SP.
about 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Is a defect

Need the ILMT agent to run on Linux systemD

I am unable to install the ILMT agent on SLES12 and RHEL 7 Linux systemD.
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

PCOMM's FTP Client to provide translation support EBCDIC/ASCII

To use IBM Personal Communications FTP Client and the capability to be able to specify translation table from ASCII to EBCDIC and EBCDIC to ASCII according to standard codepages being used within PCOM 3270 Emulation. Selectable ASCII codepages sho...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration