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IBM Personal Communications

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Add functionality to COPY command to only copy user data from 3270 screen and not protected field data.

When copying 3270 screen information to paste to another screen the COPY command should have an option to not copy protected fields and only copy user data fields. Ticket TS007753709 opened with support and it was suggested to submit a RFE.
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Macro PasteText API

There's an issue with copying and pasting text from excel to PComm.. I have informed the development team about this missing feature in current PCOMM automation library autECLPS.PasteText. Currently while copying the clipboard content in the PCOMM...
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 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.
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Allow the Use of default Session Template files

With the focus on enhancing security we have enabled TLS on the server side (z/OS & IBM i systems). We would like to be able to have some session Link parameter defaults changed so that user created "New" sessions default to use TLS/992 instea...
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Not under consideration

PCOMM/HACP support to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

PCOMM needs to be installed in Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop. SF Case # TS006682454.
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 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.
over 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
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Implementing trusted fonts in IBM Personal Communications

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over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration