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PCOMM FTP Client support for implict TLS connection and client certificate authentication

Certificate-based authentication can eliminate several initial steps in a traditional Userid/Password authentication process. Digital certificate-based authentication is phishing-resistant, user-friendly and convenient compared to passwords. Elimi...
11 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

CSRF filters for Webfacing applications

As discussed with an IBM representative, the CSRF filters are not available for Webfacing applications as of now. Hence, token based validation (CSRF) can't be enabled for Webfacing applications. In relation to this, IBM's L3 team's recommendation...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

Allow input fields to always be high lighted

Currently PCOMM doesn't provide explicit options to always have user input fields high lighted. When migrating from other TN3270 packages (notably Reflections and Host Explorer) the user base is accustomed to this feature and it is a top request f...
11 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

VMRELOCATE off from GDPS menu

We would like to be able to set vmrelocate off for guests running under z/VM from GDPS menu
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

User wants to access directly to SPL files without generating PDFs (not always)

PDF files require a lot of storage space that could be saved this way
11 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Remote engine - Shadow job status

With reference to PMR n.° 40852 311 758 - Problem on shadow job status - we would like ask to improve how shadow job worksin order to avoid the behaviur described in the PMR. Shadow job doesn't reflect faithfully the status of its Remote.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

ETL utility and JCL script to automate the DB2 data Loading process into IZTA

This will help the customer to load the DB2-UNLOADED data directly into shared dataspaces (VTS-TSR).
12 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Planned for future release

include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module solution via NuGet

Devops team need to be able to include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module in my Visual Studio.NET solution by referencing it via NuGet, like they do with IBM.Data.DB2.Core.”
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

HOD / iACS Macro language extensions

Working on some iACS macros for data import. Urgently missing a functionality to* convert integer to hex and vice versa* open a text file on workstation, read data and insert into fields on 5250 display* grab data from 5250 display and write to te...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 Planned for future release

Ability to group CICS regions together and start IA Collection process `by group`.

From a recent workshop for CICS IA with PNC · Customer has hundreds of CICS regions on their current environment and would like to group them into Dev, Prod and Application based regions. · Once grouped, customer would like to start CICS IA collec...
12 months ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release