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IBM Personal Communications

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Workstation Profile Option to disable printing

We need to disallow printing via the Print Screen or Print Graphics. I know that the PCSCMENU.EXE utility allows us to remove the menu entries. However what we need is a single option in the Workstation profile which disables the print function, e...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Have Personal Communications ignore Line Breaks during paste

Currently Personal Communications has the ability to ignore line breaks when pasting data into a VT Session. We would like the same capability when pasting in to a TN3270 session.This is a feature available with the Product we are replacing with P...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

OK BUTTON NOT SHOWN ON LINK PARAMETERS PANEL

From APAR IT14558http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT14558 Error description Personal Communications v12 Windows 10 Unable to press the "OK" button on "Link Parameters" panel in both 3270/5250 Communication -> Configure dialog. ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Pcomm Backup configuration to allow secure to non-secure failover

Change to software to include a way to select a different security profile for the primary server and the backup server by bringing a security option forward to the Host definition tab.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 4 Not under consideration

Support PDT files with IPP

We are preparing for the implementation of IPP (Internet Print Protocol) in our agency. Beginning in 2025, Microsoft will no longer publish new print drivers. By 2027, 3rd party print driver updates will no longer be allowed. We have legacy applic...
14 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

Native InTune package and customizations

Creation of a native Intune deployment for IBM Personal Communications including default settings and customizations. We would like to use the native deployment methods of Microsoft Intune to deploy and automatically update PComm. Example would be...
about 2 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

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?
6 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...
7 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

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