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Host code-page 838Thai with Windows regional format as English

Users will get more benefit if PCOMM can support 838Thai with Windows regional format as English because users will not manually switch regional format between English and Thai when they use Microsoft Excel.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Enhance PCOMM to properly allow for usage of TLS 1.3 in TN3270 sessions

usage of TLS 1.3 will allow for current and future users to utilize this newer more secure level of TLS. At present, based on TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) Support in IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM), you are saying that PCOMM is dependent...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

PCOMM to have mouse wheel customizeable

It would be nice if users could configure the mouse wheel on PCOMM settings.This would allow for a way more dynamic scroll on z/OS syslog, netlog, dataset list, dataset contents, etc.Other 3270 emulators already do that and this would be a nice fe...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Date Time to PCOM Terminal Status Bar

When taking screen shots, it would be helpful to be able to see the PC date/time in the Workspace Status Bar.
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Future consideration

Request SFTP interface with off zTPF LDAP.

We already use LDAP within our enterprise for various applications. This supports both userid/password authentication and roles. Would like to exploit that capability to z/TPF SFTP processing.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Proposal for enhanced z/TPF DNS Client behavior and alerting

The recent exchange between the IBM z/TPF Lab and DXC in the Support Case TS016560816 has suggested that IBM would be open to considering enhancements to the behavior and/or alerting for the DNS client processing associated with gethostbyname and ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Have the ability to display the ZSTIM table without resetting the TIMTUD flag.

During a recent change which involved the cancellation of an item in the ZSTIM table (from the PRC console) the 'wrong' item was removed. This occurred because a colleague made a ZSTIM D entry from another terminal while monitoring the progress of...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of C++ try/catch when exception is thrown

Our coding best practice guidelines advise developers not to use the try-throw-catch method in C++ code for control of the program flow or transaction validation as the underlying TPF mechanism for identifying the source of the thrower results in ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration