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My ideas: Protocol enhancement

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Cross hair support in the 3270 Host emulator Cursor RDz

The 3270 emulators ( PCOMM for example), supports Cross-Hair cursor ( also called Cross Line - where you have vertical and Horizontal lines in the 3270 cursor) , and we request the same feature in the 3270 Host emulator of RDz.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 5 Not under consideration

Merging several PDFs into one single PDF file

Our customer wants to explore the possibility of having a button that merge several PDF files (provided by View Print Jobs) and producing just one output file.
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Single Sign On with SAML and Microsoft AD in HACP EE

Single Sign On with SAML:Provide a single sign on feature in HACP EE with SAML as the protocol and Microsoft AD as the directory server.LDAP is used as a protocol of choice for on-prem authentication for tools like HOD.HACP EE is a web application...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Support LDAP with Microsoft AD for HOD

Support data store in Microsoft AD using LDAP for HOD.Currently it is already supported for IBM LDAP Server.
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Managed HOD Auto-Launch after Install

Skill Case # TS005393611 Customer has a need to make the Managed HOD application NOT to auto-launch after install.This is because Customer has more people who do NOT use the mainframe than they have users who do use the mainframe, so this applicat...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

Rational Host on Demand needs to add blink capability to HABEANS

Blink, BlinkRemapModel, capability needs to be added to the Host On-Demand SWT beans component .
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

LDAP active directory msft support on HOD

Actor : 600 users are potentially interested to ldap control for access to our I--series and mainframe environment Description: We are using Microsoft LDAP Autenthication feature as a standard for our environment and we need to introduce it also f...
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 7 Not under consideration

Add Vietnamese code page to HOD

Please add support for the Vietnamese code page 1130 in HOD
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Host Emulator Support 64-bit mode MSCAPI connection

RDz should support Host Emulator MSCAPI connection in 64-bit mode. MSCAPI can only connect in 32-bit mode now.
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 4 Not under consideration