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IBM Personal Communications

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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.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

Button switch hebrew/english

we have some problem with pcom to write in the same sentence in english and in hebrew the BID LTR or RTL is is difficult to use them and i think to work easier you must create a button at the top HEADER to swicth english to hebrew and the contrary...
5 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Future consideration

New install option to disable Kerberos Authentication

We have Blue Prism RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in use to automate TN3270 access. If IBM Personal Communication is also installed on the same machine Blue Prism Login Agent is not connecting. This problem is caused by the Kerberos feature of P...
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

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 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 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.
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration