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Protocol enhancement

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HOD 14.0.2 Secure FTP with JSSE enabled - Issue with performance

When using HOD 14.02 secure FTP with JSSE enabled there is a noticeable performance issue. Performance means that the rate at which files gets transferred is very slow compared to other FTP tools. HOD tends to process the transfer of files singula...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Add a "real" keepalive functionality for HOD Printer Sessions

Using HOD 14.0.5 (and also on 12.0.6) cached client, there is a problem that printer sessions seem to disconnect silently after about 5 minutes, probably because of some networking component cutting the idle connection. The "keepalive connection" ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

TAB delimeter is truncated to single space HOD FTP

When using HOD FTP client, the exported data from a formatted spreadsheet to a text file and the exported data is using 'tab delimited' format, the formatting is not being retained in the target dataset it does not print correctly.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

HOD TLS 1.0 Vulnerability

Need TLS 1.2 support for Host On-Demand(HOD) TLS FTP.HOD V11.0.13 does not support this using JSSE.See Service request: 59244499000
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Include 'Light Pen Mode' feature with HACPEE v14

The upgrade migration from HOD v11 to HOD/HACPEE v14.0.5 removes the 'Light Pen Mode' option. An application in production uses this option for the user selections in the host access menus. The application would require major changes to convert th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

Host On-Demand - replace default keyboard map for all sessions

The default keyboard map provided by Host On-Demand does not provide a mapping for several host functions such as PA1 and PA2. We need the ability to replace the default keyboard map with one of our choosing so that it will be included in every se...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Add JSSE/TLS 1.2 Support for Host On-Demand (HOD) Proxy

We're connecting to 5250 hosts today with HOD through our HOD Web Server (HOD Telnet Proxy) an IBM HTTP Server setup as an HTTPS Proxy (using SSLv3) to provide a secure telnet tunnel from the client browser to the host system. We also have an HOD ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

HACPEE 1.5 - controlling the status bar connection

HACPEE 1.5 -Ability to control the status bar connection info from HOD DW instead of having to enable the status from HACP EE. Customer is willing to provide more input or detail if necessary.
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Delivered

Host On-Demand font to fill 16:9 ratio screen

With the current fonts and the prevalence of large 16:9 aspect ratio screens, e.g. 23?, a significant amount of the screen is wasted when the window is maximized. We would like an enhancement to add additional font sizes to more completely fill th...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

Host On-Demand macro field encryption in not compliant

When a Host On-Demand macro is recording input to a non-display 3270 field, it encrypts the data using a non-compliant algorithm.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 4 Delivered