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HoD this requires a change from SSLite to JSSE.

We are requested to secure the emulation sessions with TLS1.2.In HoD this requires a change from SSLite to JSSE! We saw a decrease in performance (response times) from SSLite to JSSE between two and three times of the response times per displayed ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

HOD 14.0.2 Secure FTP with JSSE enabled - Issue with performance

When using HOD 14.02 secure FTP with JSSE enabled there is a noticeable performance issue. Performance means that the rate at which files gets transferred is very slow compared to other FTP tools. HOD tends to process the transfer of files singula...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Host On Demand License manager logs rotate.

The License manager for Host On Demand, running on WAS Liberty generates a log file for the license usage. It's required to have functions for logrotate making the file be generated daily so that afterwards the daily files can be archived. <use...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

Add a "real" keepalive functionality for HOD Printer Sessions

Using HOD 14.0.5 (and also on 12.0.6) cached client, there is a problem that printer sessions seem to disconnect silently after about 5 minutes, probably because of some networking component cutting the idle connection. The "keepalive connection" ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Update HOD supported ciphers to match industry standards

The Terminal Emulator does not support the current industry standard ciphers. We are requesting that the following ciphers be added to the list of supported ciphers for the Terminal Emulator: #Use only fips certified ciphersCiphers aes128-ctr,aes1...
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered

HOD FTP needs to support Chinese characters

FTP is widely used in Citi for transferring files and some of our users are unable to send files via HOD FTP because it does not currently support Chinese characters . This support is needed for these business to transfer their datasets.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

Use locale in log records of HACP Licensemanager

Case TS004323939we are using the Licensemanager and have recognized that alle the log entries are logged in GMT. Is it possible to change the time of the logging entries to local time. Is there any properties file which can be used to change the u...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Delivered

HACP EE Host Code page support for 1145 Spanish, 284 Spanish and 1140 Portuguese

This RFE applies to HACP EE.Add Code page support for Spanish 1145-S, Spanish 284-S and Portuguese 1140-PExample: Code point 7B should be represented using Code page ‘Spanish 284' with Ñ
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

Modify HACPEE interaction with 3rd party PDF Generator

In HACPEE v2.1, it permits interacting with 3rd party SW tools to generate PDF files in the following way:-HACPEE is able to identify the LU3 printer name that has been passed through URL.-Whenever a given LU3 receives data, HACPEE generate the SP...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

HOD - TLS 1.2 support with MSCAPI

We need to be able to configure HOD with TLS 1.2 using MSCAPI because with JSSE, it is not possible to pre-configure for TLS 1.2. With tens of thousands of users having to manual configure as the product is currently designed is not manageable and...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Delivered