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IBM Host On-Demand

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Update Deployment Wizard to allow specification of Web Start desktop icon

Enhance the Deployment Wizard to allow specifying a user defined icon to be specified when generating a Web Start client. The Deployment Wizard should include a panel that allows the user to select an alternative icon to be used for the desktop sh...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

HOD MAC algorithm support change

While using HOD to connect to Telnet hosts, we encountered a Telnet Host that had disabled HMAC-SHA1 due to it being based off an encryption algorithm (SHA1) that is no longer considered secure (even though HMAC-SHA1 is still considered secure due...
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

About order of file transter lists on Host On-Demand V11

Currently, order of the file transfer list is random.This customer uses many file transfer lists which include DBCS characters.Therefore it's very hard to find the required file from the lists.He strongly requested to improve the order of the file...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

HOD getHTMLParameter using Java Web Start

We integrate HOD JAVA applet in our user portal and we send parameters using the URL and the getHTMLParameter macro function to send variable data such as user/password to the Host session. Now, browsers will run JAVA no more and we want to do the...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

HOD copy & paste support for Thai language

HOD client V11.0.14, Copy and paste function can not recognize Thai vowel and tone mark which are rendered in above or below normal Thai characters. Customer would like copy & paste to function as "what you are seeing is what you are get", jus...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 6 Not under consideration

Add a switch which can toggle set or not those 2 jsse2 providers in HODJSSEImpl

We found the below 2 lines of code in class com.ibm.eNetwork.security.ssl.HODJSSEImpl will impact to other HTTPS connecitons in same JVM. //Security.setProperty("ssl.SocketFactory.provider", "com.ibm.jsse2.SSLSocketFactoryImpl");//Security.setProp...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Ability to limit an HOD ID's concurrent logins

I would like the ability to limit the number of concurrent logins that may be established using the same HOD user id. I need the ability to limit to one but understand that reason might exist to legitimately have multiple logins. The control could...
about 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Improve logging of HACPEE connections in HILMv13

Currently, Host Integration License Manager (HILM) is capturing HACPEE connections but is not able to log specific details such as: a. IP Addressb. User Namec. Machine Addressd. Machine Name Additionally, request to provide new logging options suc...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Planned for future release

HOD 655 error for VT display session during report generation for 5 minutes or more

we cannot use HOD to perform our Business-related functions due to reverting back to the logon screen when generating reports.
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

HoD 5250 Telnet TLS-SSL

Sessions is set manually for Telnet-TLS connections. This need to be made by server centrally configuration.
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Is a defect