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Kerberos support for pcomm 3270 sessions

For 5250 Sessions kerberos is implemented and available. Since we have customers running pcomm to connect to z-Series with 3270 sessions we would like to have kerberos support for the 3270 session types.
about 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

Kerberos sign on does not work in Personal Communications and Host on Demand

Currently, the current design of PCOMM and HOD doesn't support FQDN with alias host. This entry is opened fro Dev/L3 team to explore and check what API are available in C++ to support the alias hostname to resolve FQDN.
11 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

SCRATCHPAD inhibit

For security reasons we have been asked to inhibit the following pcomm menu option: Actions- Launch - Scracht Pad How can this be done?
5 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

PCOMM to have mouse wheel customizeable

It would be nice if users could configure the mouse wheel on PCOMM settings.This would allow for a way more dynamic scroll on z/OS syslog, netlog, dataset list, dataset contents, etc.Other 3270 emulators already do that and this would be a nice fe...
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

registry entry LastExitViewFromINI customizable during installation

it would be very helpful for us, when we could decide wether registry entry LastExitViewFromINI is set to T or F during installation since there are different scenarios on our site for the usage of pcom. scenario 1: installation on personalized wo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Profile Path, Icon Path, Embedded Macro Variable usage

Macro “include” statement under PCOMM Allow the use of the macro “include” statement so we can include the “global.mac” file they built in some of the more complex Macros. This was in version 12 and 13 from macros HCL built but in version 14 it fe...
12 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 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...
6 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Removal of Interactive Service for PCONMM Service

Windows reports on interactive services as an error in Windows system logs (see attached screenshot). https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/we-noticed-that-the-interactive-services-detection/fad0c42f-9d12-4cf6-a54a-2f9cf8731e4f. We...
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Unable to run FTP script in PComm

Reflection allow users to invoke a script that contains native FTP commands. We have been unable to perform this functionality in PComm.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

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