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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

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...
over 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...
over 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. ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

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 fu...
about 4 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.
almost 6 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 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

Personal communication for MAC (i/OS)

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

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