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Add a "real" keepalive functionality for HOD Printer Sessions

Using HOD 14.0.5 (and also on 12.0.6) cached client, there is a problem that printer sessions seem to disconnect silently after about 5 minutes, probably because of some networking component cutting the idle connection. The "keepalive connection" ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Implement HACP EE Support for Secure FTP (like HOD)

Please implement Secure FTP in HACP EE similar to HOD Secure FTP functionality.
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 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
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Merging several PDFs into one single PDF file

Our customer wants to explore the possibility of having a button that merge several PDF files (provided by View Print Jobs) and producing just one output file.
7 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Customize colums in HILM report outputs according to DSGVO

We've got requirement because of DSGVO we are not allowed to show Systemuser Field in generated reports.So we would need the following extensions: * Administrators can customize which fields are available for non administrative users that can view...
almost 4 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...
7 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

HACP EE support for Thai codepage.

Due to JAVA applet and webstart will deprecate in JDK9. Customer want to change from HOD to HACP EE. But current HACP EE not support Thai codepage. Please consider to add support for Thai code page (838).
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

HOD HTML Override Functionality with Web Start

With browsers ending support for NPAPI plugins (with the exception of Internet Explorer, whose last version will be 11 and will seemingly be retired with the end of the Windows 10 support lifecycle), the direction is to move to using Web Start cli...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 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.
11 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

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