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IBM Personal Communications

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Support Agent Forwarding for TN3270-Connections

We got the requirement to connect to our TN3270-servers via a "control-point" (another Server that behaves like a proxy but records the connection). Example for other text-based connections: For SSH, the software "PuTTY" offers a functionality cal...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Planned for future release

Cloud Extender service account

service account linked to CE service is not showing fully qualified domain name, it is truncated.Please look into Case number TS004365864 for details.
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

PCOMM 1371E support

PCOMMAs PCOMM Development team sayid PCOMM HACP support code page 1371E in version PComm 12.0.3. But according to our test, when PCOMM connecting 1371E on system z, the 1371E characters are working correctly  and the custom conversion function is ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Not under consideration

Quick Connect Bar

We disable the Quick Connect Bar via GPO. We need these ADM files to be converted to ADMX and ADML format.
almost 4 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

TLS 1.3 support for TN3270 SSL clients

As per security counsel and standard its recommended to have TLS 1.3 protocol support for the TN3270 TLS console sessions.
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 6 Planned for future release

PCOMM support display EBCDIC code range from CF41 to F786 Chinese Character

in case# TS002613682, PCOMM is not able to render Chinese character which EBCDIC code range from CF41 to F786 due to its implementation using an old method of converting host chars to Chinese GBK before rendering on the screen.
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 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

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.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

StandaloneHOD support when javaws becomes deprecated/removed.

This is a request to have the StandAloneHOD in PCOMM to continue to work after java web start is deprecated/removed.
over 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration