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IBM Personal Communications

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Implementing trusted fonts in IBM Personal Communications

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about 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Do not require password if client certificate provided for PCOMM-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
about 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

TLS 1.3 Support for PersonalCommunications for TN3270-Access

BSI Germany (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) wants us to switch to TLS 1.3 for network security.IN PCom V15 there is TLS 1.3 mentioned, but only for HTTPS-Connections. So please add support for Personal Communications when usi...
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
7 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Need PCOMM FTP to support implicit TLS (no AUTH TLS)

Currently the PCOMM 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 n...
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Larger packet size needed for IND$FILE and P-COMM download/upload

I request the next version/release of IBM P-COMM (and corresponding IND$FILE in MVS/TSO) to allow larger SendBufferSize values (e.g. 64000, 128000, 256000, 512000, 1024000, 2048000, 4096000, 8192000). This is needed for faster download/upload spee...
about 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Personal Communication iASP enable for file Transfer

Enable to access iASP when using File transfer(Send & Receive) option within Personal Communication. I also open TS006404568
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Support for BIFF8 and higher EXCEL file format specifications in IBM Personal Communications.

Currently IBM PCOMM supports BIFF (BIFF4 and BIFF5) for Data Transfer utility and Copy operations. PCOMM has to be enhanced to support higher EXCEL file formats.PMR 22610,999,760 was converted to case TS003171311.
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

PCOM should accept MacBook Umlaut keys

PCOM is called from a macbook via Citrix session. We have to enter german text to mainframe panels. PCOM should not ignore the umlaut keys (ü ä ö ß) on the right side of the german Keyboard of a macbook.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Macro PasteText API

There's an issue with copying and pasting text from excel to PComm.. I have informed the development team about this missing feature in current PCOMM automation library autECLPS.PasteText. Currently while copying the clipboard content in the PCOMM...
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release