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Enhance PCOMM to properly allow for usage of TLS 1.3 in TN3270 sessions

usage of TLS 1.3 will allow for current and future users to utilize this newer more secure level of TLS. At present, based on TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) Support in IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM), you are saying that PCOMM is dependent...
about 2 hours ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 0 Submitted

Allow paste to overwrite to end of line

Other 3270 emulators, such as Attachmate Extra! have the ability for a paste to overwrite to end of line, and not just by the length of the copied data. I would like to see this ability in PCOMM. When copying data, you should be able to flag a set...
10 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Host code-page 838Thai with Windows regional format as English

Users will get more benefit if PCOMM can support 838Thai with Windows regional format as English because users will not manually switch regional format between English and Thai when they use Microsoft Excel.
6 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Button switch hebrew/english

we have some problem with pcom to write in the same sentence in english and in hebrew the BID LTR or RTL is is difficult to use them and i think to work easier you must create a button at the top HEADER to swicth english to hebrew and the contrary...
about 2 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

Convert old Raster fonts into TTF fonts

I would like to see the remaining raster fonts that are in the PCOMM font list to be converted into True Type Fonts (TTF) to accomplish a few things: 1) This would allow enabling of the font change option on a maximinzed window (in line with what ...
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

PCOM FTP client file size limitation

PCOM FTP client fails to transfer file size close to or bigger than 1 GB and recommended to transfer about 200MB size of files for best performance, TS008008701. There is no file size limitation for well-known FTP clients, Winscp or FileZilla. I s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

Need PCOMM FTP to support implicit TLS (no AUTH TLS)

Currently the PCOMM FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be n...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

TLS 1.3 support for TN3270 SSL clients

As per security counsel and standard its recommended to have TLS 1.3 protocol support for the TN3270 TLS console sessions.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Planned for future release

Kerberos support for pcomm 3270 sessions

For 5250 Sessions kerberos is implemented and available. Since we have customers running pcomm to connect to z-Series with 3270 sessions we would like to have kerberos support for the 3270 session types.
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration