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IBM Host On-Demand

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Allow HOD variables to be used by macros.

Allow macros access to HOD variables such as SOEID(User Name), LU, IP Address, etc., so that macros could be written for group use rather than for an individual. HOD is aware of these values as they are forwarded up to License Manager.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

HOD paste function doesn't handle negative number to spreadsheet

Rumba users migrating to Host On Demand. They are copying a numeric value which has a minus sign after the number to indicate a negative value. When they paste the number to Excel, it is copied as is with the minus sign at the end.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Speed up HoD connections to hosts not in DNS

For some reason, HoD emulation does a reverse lookup even though an IP address has been supplied. If the host is not in DNS, then connectivity is delayed up to 30 seconds before the reverse is bypassed. Have an option to bypass reverse lookup upon...
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

HOD DPW - Provide Option to Specify Path for Customized CA files

Provide the ability to specify the CA store where the Host On-Demand Deployment Wizard will search for certificates received on a host session. The recommended circumvention of copying the certificate to where DPW will look for it requires adminis...
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

HOD DPW - Allow Parameter Updates Without an Active Host Session

Provide the ability in the HOD Deployment Wizard to change session parameters such as "Edit preferences" without needing to successfully activate the host session being modified.
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Open sessions in new window instead of new tab

With PCOMM, I am able to bring up multiple sessions, each in it's own window. This allows me to view multiple PCOMM sessions at the same time. If this is not possible yet, I would say that it is a very desirable feature.
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Obtain locally the compute name and fullfill automatically User and Password values in JWS Jnlp Env.

We want to adopt the traditional user/password mode to let the customers logon HOD server, but we want programmatically fill the user and password values with the PC "computer name" value.
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Create option by parameter to put delay on "Enter" in HOD macros

HOD macros can cause very rapid entry of transactions in our CICS regions. We need the ability to slow down the submission of the <Enter> key in the macros. Perhaps a parameter in the HOD terminal configuration that we can adjust as an admin...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Install HOD 12 on zOS with tar files instead of Installation Manager

Customers are having much difficulty with Installation Manager on zOS. In the later versions of HOD 11, a non-SMPE package was made available where three tar files could be uploaded to the zOS host, then run shell script to extract the files, and ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Not under consideration

HOD 12 removed the 'go hod' menu where HOD server is configued, started, stopped, monitored and other functions

When HOD 12 was installed on AS/400 system, it was noticed that the 'go hod' menu was not longer available. This is a major function for the iSeries admins that was removed and no announce that it would be removed. This menu was in previous versio...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release