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IBM Host On-Demand

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HOD Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

IBM Host On-Demand (HOD) pages are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Description of XSS from application auditors: "Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is a web application vulnerability where user input is not sanitized properly, allowing a malici...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 4 Not under consideration

macro in host on demand

How manipulate a string variable in a macro. For exemple equivalence of java method "indexof" ?
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

HOD DPW - Provide Option to Specify Path for Customized CA files

Provide the ability to specify the CA store where the Host On-Demand Deployment Wizard will search for certificates received on a host session. The recommended circumvention of copying the certificate to where DPW will look for it requires adminis...
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Be able to make session parameters changes

Would like to be able to change parms configured in a session with out updating every session in the Configured Session List
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

HOD MAC algorithm support change

While using HOD to connect to Telnet hosts, we encountered a Telnet Host that had disabled HMAC-SHA1 due to it being based off an encryption algorithm (SHA1) that is no longer considered secure (even though HMAC-SHA1 is still considered secure due...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

Install of HOD 12 on i5OS no longer included in the License Program Products

After installing Host On-Demand V12 via Installation Manager on i5OS, the License Program Product list does not reflect that HOD 12 is installed. Previous versions of HOD did update the LPP on AS/400 platform and this was removed for HOD 12. This ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Host Emulator Support 64-bit mode MSCAPI connection

RDz should support Host Emulator MSCAPI connection in 64-bit mode. MSCAPI can only connect in 32-bit mode now.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 4 Not under consideration

Update Deployment Wizard to allow specification of Web Start desktop icon

Enhance the Deployment Wizard to allow specifying a user defined icon to be specified when generating a Web Start client. The Deployment Wizard should include a panel that allows the user to select an alternative icon to be used for the desktop sh...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

HOD getHTMLParameter using Java Web Start

We integrate HOD JAVA applet in our user portal and we send parameters using the URL and the getHTMLParameter macro function to send variable data such as user/password to the Host session. Now, browsers will run JAVA no more and we want to do the...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

HOD copy & paste support for Thai language

HOD client V11.0.14, Copy and paste function can not recognize Thai vowel and tone mark which are rendered in above or below normal Thai characters. Customer would like copy & paste to function as "what you are seeing is what you are get", jus...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 6 Not under consideration