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Newer software support releases for HATS

HATS 9.7 is currently not supported on Windows 2019, only 2016 - this is classed as end of life for Microsoft. There have also been reliability issues with the OS, so it would be better to support this on Windows 2019. Similarly, HATS has not been...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

HATS Connection profiles need ability to use environment properties

A common issue for HATS is that connection properties need to be tweaked or customized to the particular environment that they are deployed to. This might be because the pooling limits differentiate in an environment, the user id's differentiate i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

HATS parsing of data in services response for index variables

When HATS returns data in a service response for an indexed variable, it returns the data as a single string with all of the data concatenated together. This is difficult to consume and not at all what is expected in a service (either SOAP or REST...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Not under consideration

IBM HATS high severity security issue - Session Fixation

Using HATS, the session id (JSESSIONID) created on login page of the application is not changed after successful authentication. Due to this application is vulnerable to high severity security issue - session fixation.
about 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Provide customizable way to add input attributes at HATS input fields and at HATS form level

As a HATS toolkit user, I need to add custom attribute to all the text input fields on screens rendered by HATS. HATS project default rendering uses “Field” as “Component” and “Widget” for the “Remaining text and input fields”. In the “Text input”...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Change PopUp Cursor

When i use Subfile with Popup the code for the PopUp Picture is:<img src="/HELLWEB/common/images/validValues.gif" onclick="popup('HATSForm_in_1724_1')" alt="Werte..." onmouseover="this.style.cursor='hand';">It would be better when you could ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

Documentation for containerization of HATS projects

System: HATSActor: Official support for HATS containers HATS is a commonly used product that provides Host Access modernization. HATS projects are normally web applications that are deployed to an application server and accessed over a browser. De...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

HATS is dumping the contents of the screen to a log

Currently when HATS encounters a macro exception, the contents of the screen being used are dumped into a log file.As this can contain sensitive information, we need to be able to stop HATS from doing this in a Production environment.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 7 Planned for future release

Support HTML

WIth the advent of HTML 5 capable browsers, HATS should support new HTML5 syntax and elements, and should eliminate deprecated HTML elements.HATS should also provide CSS layout over Table based layout to further support HTML 5 layouts.
over 10 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Not under consideration

HATS Connection terminatio

HATS Connection Termination feature request
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release