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Protocol enhancement

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Support Agent Forwarding for TN3270-Connections

We got the requirement to connect to our TN3270-servers via a "control-point" (another Server that behaves like a proxy but records the connection). Example for other text-based connections: For SSH, the software "PuTTY" offers a functionality cal...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Planned for future release

Do not require password if client certificate provided for PCOMM-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to trim trailing spaces from each line of text when pasting multi-line text, not just the last line.

Ticket TS007840953 opened for this issue and was recommended to open a RFE. Currently when copying/pasting multi-line text only the last line of text has the trailing spaces trimmed. We would like the option to trim trailing spaces from all lines ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

TS006587939- printing problem from the horizon client

when printing from VMware horizon client on pcom and the printer driver is universal driver , the printing from pcom not working
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Host Graphics capability to PComm similar to HOD

RFE opened as per suggestion by IBM im PMR 36247,122,000. Add Host Graphics capabilities to PComm similar to HOD. See PMR for details.
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Command Line Parameter to Specify Settings Instead of Saved Session

We need a way to specify starting a session by specifying parameters instead of a saved session.
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Planned for future release

PCOMM Certificate Error Override

An option is available in the pcswin.ini file:[Security]PassthroughCertValidation=Y This allows PCOMM to connect to z/OS hosts where certificates are not trusted. However, it also generates a warning popup dialog that the user must respond to befo...
over 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

Pcomm Backup configuration to allow secure to non-secure failover

Change to software to include a way to select a different security profile for the primary server and the backup server by bringing a security option forward to the Host definition tab.
over 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 4 Not under consideration

Update Copy/Paste in Personal Communications to process empty Excel fields

When pasting from and Excel Spreadsheet into a TN3270 screen Personal Communications skips the TAB for columns with no data which causes the pasted data to end up in the wrong fields on the 3270 screen. In our case it was a CICS screen.PMR 75414,L...
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

PCOM FTP Client does not allow overwrite of an existing data set

If you try to overwrite or append a TSO data set using the FTP Client of PCOM you will get the message "MVS file transfer OverWrite/Append failed".
almost 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

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