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Unable to create macros that are mapped to a hot key.

Mapping keys to Macro functionality is present in HACP EE whereas Menu Command execution is not yet supported in HACP EE. This RFE is being opened per HACP EE Development Team request.
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

HACP EE 2.2 - Unable to copy and save 3270 sessions

Unable to copy and save 3270 sessions. This RFE is being opened per HACP EE Development Team request.
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

optimization of HSM routine managing exteded format dataset

Over CPU consumption of HSM from generalisation of Dataset extended format related to pmr 68153 661 706
over 5 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

HACP EE 1.5 - customizing the UI

Ability to customize the look of HACP EE with either a customized banner or ability to add our corporate info would be helpful not only for our organization but for others as well. This feature already exists within HOD and should exist within HAC...
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

zAware vendor key expirations

Change the fixed vendor key expiration date from December 31st to March 31st annually.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 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

GDPS/MTMM Automation enhancement to issue an Informational/Warning Message before varying an Application Lpar out of plex.

As a reult of Site1 BCOPY Disk failure (Rank Failure) GDPS Performed a Hyperswap in error to the failed disk thereafter it quiesced the Application Lpar's before taking it out of the plex. This was identified to be a bug with GDPS. Ref APAR :PH060...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Add functionality to trim trailing spaces from each line of text when pasting multi-line text, not just the last line.

Ticket TS007840953 opened for this issue and was recommended to open a RFE. Currently when copying/pasting multi-line text only the last line of text has the trailing spaces trimmed. We would like the option to trim trailing spaces from all lines ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release