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IBM Personal Communications

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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

Make larger fonts available

With the advent of larger Personal Computer screens, it would make sense to allow larger fonts to be used. For example, I have a with a resolution of 1920x1080. If I want PCOM to use the full screen, the terminal window can take up the full screen...
10 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

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

BAR file image maps in PComm; Toolbar horizontal scrolling

IBM/HCL to fix images that are used in the .bar file to not need a image home folder, but allow us to imbed the images as part of the session files so when we deploy sessions, we don’t have to worry about toolbar mapping of images to a specific fo...
12 months 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

Powershell Library for PCOMM

Social Security Administration is looking to improve some automated actions in conjunction with the PCOMM application. Powershell libraries would allow us to accomplish our tasks in a more reliable fashion than current practices.
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

PCOMM to include support of Chinese Traditional characters not showing or showing incorrect in current version v14

as raised in TS006415857 - Chinese Traditional characters not showing or showing incorrect character symbol
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Quantum Neuron Cloud

Industry Viable Product & Service
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Add more screen size options to the pull-down choices.

Can we add 51x133 and 62x142 screen size options to the pull-down choices? The options available are a bit “odd” when working in certain mainframe applications, like TSO/ISPF, which outside of green-screen CICS. For examples, 27x132 gives poor hei...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release