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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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 5 Planned for future release

TN3270 auto-reconnect timer

Implement new timers in Personnal Communications for user to control TN3270 auto-reconnect.1) Reconnect time interval t - When TN3270 connection is dropped, after t seconds, auto-reconnect again.2) For the same TN3270 connection, try n auto-reconn...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Planned for future release

Do not require password if client certificate provided for PCOMM-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to trim trailing spaces from each line of text when pasting multi-line text, not just the last line.

Ticket TS007840953 opened for this issue and was recommended to open a RFE. Currently when copying/pasting multi-line text only the last line of text has the trailing spaces trimmed. We would like the option to trim trailing spaces from all lines ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

PCOMM and JAWS screen reader

It seems that PCOM has worked with JAWS in the past because the Windows functions used by JAWS provided the information by default. With Windows 10 that is no longer the case.
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Host Graphics capability to PComm similar to HOD

RFE opened as per suggestion by IBM im PMR 36247,122,000. Add Host Graphics capabilities to PComm similar to HOD. See PMR for details.
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

TS006587939- printing problem from the horizon client

when printing from VMware horizon client on pcom and the printer driver is universal driver , the printing from pcom not working
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

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

Command Line Parameter to Specify Settings Instead of Saved Session

We need a way to specify starting a session by specifying parameters instead of a saved session.
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Planned for future release