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Allow for SFTP and Tectia server

Tectia Server in IBM Z/OS use file transfer to MVS dataset (FTADV – File Transfer Advice String) using SFTP protocol in the Mainframe. HOD Dev team investigated the code including on the mainframe end. After discussion with the Development manager...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

Choose Colors (and Font) support in the 3270 Host emulator in RDz

Many requests have been received to allow customization of the Colors (and Font) for the Host Emulator within RDz. Here are a few of the requests:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=79410http://www.ibm.com/deve...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

Numbers Cut and Paste from HOD into excel cannot be tabulated

HOD takes the negative number from HOD and pastes it as is into excel. The users have set up processes for copying and tabulating numbers pasted in excel based on Rumba behavior. Rumba changes the position of the - (negative sign) to prefix the nu...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

macro in host on demand

How manipulate a string variable in a macro. For exemple equivalence of java method "indexof" ?
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

Be able to make session parameters changes

Would like to be able to change parms configured in a session with out updating every session in the Configured Session List
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

Update Deployment Wizard to allow specification of Web Start desktop icon

Enhance the Deployment Wizard to allow specifying a user defined icon to be specified when generating a Web Start client. The Deployment Wizard should include a panel that allows the user to select an alternative icon to be used for the desktop sh...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

About order of file transter lists on Host On-Demand V11

Currently, order of the file transfer list is random.This customer uses many file transfer lists which include DBCS characters.Therefore it's very hard to find the required file from the lists.He strongly requested to improve the order of the file...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Add a switch which can toggle set or not those 2 jsse2 providers in HODJSSEImpl

We found the below 2 lines of code in class com.ibm.eNetwork.security.ssl.HODJSSEImpl will impact to other HTTPS connecitons in same JVM. //Security.setProperty("ssl.SocketFactory.provider", "com.ibm.jsse2.SSLSocketFactoryImpl");//Security.setProp...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

HOD 655 error for VT display session during report generation for 5 minutes or more

we cannot use HOD to perform our Business-related functions due to reverting back to the logon screen when generating reports.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

HoD 5250 Telnet TLS-SSL

Sessions is set manually for Telnet-TLS connections. This need to be made by server centrally configuration.
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Is a defect