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Protocol enhancement

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LDAP active directory msft support on HOD

Actor : 600 users are potentially interested to ldap control for access to our I--series and mainframe environment Description: We are using Microsoft LDAP Autenthication feature as a standard for our environment and we need to introduce it also f...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 7 Not under consideration

Support TLS for connections to configuration server (HOMSRV)

Due to DoD/DISA STIG requirements for all connections to be secured via TLS we need the ability to enable TLS for the configuration server (HOMSRV) port 8999. This would allow the credentials used to retrieve or modify the configurations to be kep...
9 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

HOD toolkit integration with EHLLAPI

Need to enable EHLLAPI property in TOOLKIT which will help to integrate mainframe applications with Pega software Automation tool - Robotic Desktop Automation. As per HOD development team, this feature is not present in existing product. Hence rai...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Single Sign On with SAML and Microsoft AD in HACP EE

Single Sign On with SAML:Provide a single sign on feature in HACP EE with SAML as the protocol and Microsoft AD as the directory server.LDAP is used as a protocol of choice for on-prem authentication for tools like HOD.HACP EE is a web application...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Support LDAP with Microsoft AD for HOD

Support data store in Microsoft AD using LDAP for HOD.Currently it is already supported for IBM LDAP Server.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

HOD deployable in a Virtualized (VM) environment

HOD deploy able in a VM environment (IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service ; ie cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Managed HOD Auto-Launch after Install

Skill Case # TS005393611 Customer has a need to make the Managed HOD application NOT to auto-launch after install.This is because Customer has more people who do NOT use the mainframe than they have users who do use the mainframe, so this applicat...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Provide host code page 1379 support for 3270 session

Host code page 1379 is recently assigned by IBM Globalization Center of Competency to provide Traditional Chinese Extended Mixed Host, extension including Traditional Chinese, HKSCS, Simplified Chinese.IBM internal Lotus Notes Database:Notes://D01...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

HACP EE 1.5 - customizing the UI

Ability to customize the look of HACP EE with either a customized banner or ability to add our corporate info would be helpful not only for our organization but for others as well. This feature already exists within HOD and should exist within HAC...
about 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Add Vietnamese code page to HOD

Please add support for the Vietnamese code page 1130 in HOD
about 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration