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IBM Personal Communications

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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. ...
almost 8 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 fu...
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Not under consideration

PCOMM Certificate Error Override

An option is available in the pcswin.ini file:[Security]PassthroughCertValidation=Y This allows PCOMM to connect to z/OS hosts where certificates are not trusted. However, it also generates a warning popup dialog that the user must respond to befo...
over 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

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.
over 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 4 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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Update Copy/Paste in Personal Communications to process empty Excel fields

When pasting from and Excel Spreadsheet into a TN3270 screen Personal Communications skips the TAB for columns with no data which causes the pasted data to end up in the wrong fields on the 3270 screen. In our case it was a CICS screen.PMR 75414,L...
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Printing using PDT on Windows 10

When using a PDT file to print on Windows 10, nothing gets printed. If we uncheck the "Use PDT" option something gets printed but without the required formatting. Since printing was fine using PDT files in Windows 7, this clearly has to do with th...
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Enhancement to printing to Disk with Append

1) Need the ability to clear the print file between print Collections. After doing a 'Purge Collection' we would like the Print file cleared for the next set of Print Collection Screens. 2) We would like to be able to create a Word Document (.doc)...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Personal communication for MAC (i/OS)

Is there a emulator like Personal Communication to connect to z/OS from IBM for MAC?
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Since we upgraded Windows 10 with the redstone SP PCSWS.EXE crashes when closing a 5250 session.

env: windows 10, PComm prb: when closing pc5250 pcsws.exe fails with an application error since updating windows 10 with the redstone SP.
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Is a defect

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