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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

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
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Single Sign On with Open ID Connect in HACP EE

HACP EE is a web application which offers a zero foot print host accessFor customers who want to access HACP EE using single sign on should be able to do so using OIDC or Open Id Connect. It is a modern standard for exchanging authenticated end us...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

HOD FTP need the ability to connect to FTP/S server with Implicit TLS (No AUTH TLS command)

Currently the HOD FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be non...
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

HOD V14.01 Rearrainging Session Icons

Using Rational Host On-Demand V14.01 server-based configuration. The option to rearrange session icons is only available with the HTML-based configuration. Would like this option using the server-based model. It is very important to our end base u...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Autostart session in full screen

Current HACPEE behavior is that when a session is opened it starts on a default size and in order to set it on full screen the user has to click on the full screen button. The desired behaviour would be to have a setting that allows the session to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HoD files processed before they are full generated

Greetings, The files from HoD are processed via Docpath before all the information was store in the files by HoD. Please, make sure only files .spl with the full information are in the destination folder.
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

QoL enhancements for HoD

As a enhancement for the HOD product, we would like to have implemented the following things: Print all selected documents at the same time Flag in a different color the pdfs that has been printed/opened before Auto refresh the document list every...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Create latest HOD package in Docker Container

Bureau of Fiscal Service is currently upgrading Host On Demand implementation and moving from AIX to RHEL and to the latest version of HOD.
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release