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Widescreen for BIDI characters

The option - Optimize for Widescreen is available Only for SBCS codepage display sessions not for DBCS or BIDI. Our users have been requesting such an option for many years and we finally thought that with version 15 we would have the option to gi...
4 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Future consideration

Modify the iOS (iPad) virtual keyboard for HACP Extended Edition so that it does not cover the 3270 emulator session.

HACP Extended Edition is being evaluated a replacement solution to legacy handheld scanners used to connect to mainframe 3270 emulation sessions. In the current state, the iPad virtual keyboard covers portions of the ISPF 3270 session, making it d...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Norwegian codepage support (1142 and 277) for HACP EE

We need Norwegian codepage support (1142 and 277) in HACP EE. The major difference between Norwegian and Swedish is : Swedish codepage has ä, ö, Ä, Ö, where as Norwegian code page must have æ, ø, Æ, Ø. BTW. The Swedish codepages 1143 ad 278 are al...
9 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HOD HTML Override Functionality with Web Start

With browsers ending support for NPAPI plugins (with the exception of Internet Explorer, whose last version will be 11 and will seemingly be retired with the end of the Windows 10 support lifecycle), the direction is to move to using Web Start cli...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

Thai Code page support for HACP EE

Thai customers need support for thai code page in HACP EE
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Functionality already exists

Support codepage 500 and 1148 with HACP EE

Our systems are configured with codepage 500. To be able to use HACP EE it is mandatory that it supports codepage 500 (Multilingual ) and 1148 (Multilingual with EURO).
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

HOD V14.01 Rearrainging Session Icons

Using Rational Host On-Demand V14.01 server-based configuration. The option to rearrange session icons is only available with the HTML-based configuration. Would like this option using the server-based model. It is very important to our end base u...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Autostart session in full screen

Current HACPEE behavior is that when a session is opened it starts on a default size and in order to set it on full screen the user has to click on the full screen button. The desired behaviour would be to have a setting that allows the session to...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Large Documents are printed with missing information

We noticed some documents are arriving incomplete to Docpath. These documents have many pages, and each time we try to print them, we are having randomly several pages (never the full document). After checking, we realized that the files .spl requ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

View print job button is not working as expected

The view print job button appears disabled when trying to click it (see image attatched)
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration