ZOC Terminal

What's new in this version:

ZOC Terminal 9.01.2
Fixed:
- TN5250 connections sometimes didn't work
- keep-alive for ssh connections was broken


ZOC Terminal 9.01.1
- New: user button settings (session profile) now has a 'Clone' function
- Changed: the 'Add' button in user button settings now adds the new item below the selected entry

Fixed:
- crash when opening a host directory entry that was set to "open in new window" (macOS only)
- Edit-menu -> 'Copy Tab Title' and 'Copy Host Address' did not work
- Drag-Drop to session window did not work (macOS only)
- color preview in session profile->cursor didn't have text until colors page was visited
- TN3270 under MVS console did not reset the "X System" indicator
- some special DOS characters were drawn in incorrect colors or were missing
- in some situations bright ANSI colors were displayed as orange


ZOC Terminal 9.01.0
Security:
- New: SSH now based on OpenSSH 9.3
- New: SSL and Crypto now based on OpenSSL 3.3.3
- New: SSH now supports FIDO2 hardware encryption tokens like Yubikey
- New: sftp now based on LIBSSH2 1.11

General improvements and additional functions:
- New: support for Windows dark mode, new dark/light option for Windows and macOS
- New: Local Shell for Windows (open a Windows Command prompt in a ZOC tab)
- New: performance improvements with output of large amounts of text (e.g. ls -R)
- New: supports more unicode chars from the 0x2580 - 0x259F range (semi graphics, e.g. stable-diffusion progress bar)
- New: better support for custom unicode characters (unicode 0xf0000 custom area) like nerd-fonts
- New: new function in Edit-menu to copy current actual host address to clipboard
- New: new function in Tools-menu to copy public-key to clipboard
- New: the Quick Connect window shows when communication methods or emulation settings override the session profile
- New: the time/duration/ETA display in the file transfer window is now smoother/more natural
- New: text sending (e.g. pasting long texts) is now more evenly spaced over time with short character delays
- New: the Action dialog (e.g. user buttons, mapped keys, etc.) can now open a file (e.g. PDF) on the local computer
- New: keyboard/userbar/etc action to send mixture of text and emulation key, e.g. "sub"
New: the buttons on the userbar now have a comment field which will be shown as a tool-tip when hovering the mouse
- on the button
- New: in the Host Directory, the multi-edit dialog now contains an option to change the keyboard profile setting
- New: Backup file AutoExportedConfigurationArchive file is created and updated every 7 days when exiting ZOC
- New: the installation download-file can now be run with commandline parameters for unattended update
- New: marking text on rectangular mode now disaplays a crosshair mouse cursor
- New: nicer cursor-finding animation

Tabs:
- New: new option in tab's right-click menu to suppress the background traffic indicator (little red dots)
- New: new function in tab's right-click menu to copy actual host address to clipboard
- New: new function to jump to previously opened tab (View-menu and Alt+0)
- New: key modifiers for tab shortcuts can now be Alt/Cmd, Shift-Alt/Cmd, Shift-Ctrl + 1-9
- New: option to activate/deactive the switching of tabs by using the mouse wheel when the mouse is placed near tabs
- New: "+" button on tabs bar to create new tab

Session profile:
- New: AutoHighlight now offers a new boundary type: Beginning+End of Line
- New: AutoHighlight now allows higher values for max length
- New: option to display keyboard cursor as half-block cursor type
- New: option to write logfile with smaller buffers (will write more frequent updates to disk)
- New: more options/actions to avoid disconnects due to keyboard-inactivity
- New: color preview also shows cursor
- New: cursor settings page with for transparency of cursor-crosshair
- New: cursor settings page shows preview with cursor

Program settings:
- New: option to configure action for right mouse button with Ctrl
- New: mouse option to use a right-click as TN3270 CusorSelect/Lightpen
- New: printer settings now allow to set wider or narrower line spacing
- New: option to configure action for mouse wheel when Ctrl key is pressed
- New: tabs can now be activated via keyboard shortcuts Alt/Cmd, Shift-Alt/Cmd or Shift-Ctrl + 1-9
- New: option to deactivate switching of tabs using the mouse wheel (e.g. when using a magic mouse)
- New: configure external FTP client like FileZilla for FTP connections

Character-translation profiles:
- New: can now convert incoming characters into Unicode characters
- New: option convert incoming single characters into strings and escape-sequences

Host directory:
- New: Host Directory writes a lock-file that indicates which user/computer is editing the host-directory
New: Host Directory entries show when the per-entry settings override the session profile (checkmark in the
- Configure button)
- New: right-click menu (or key F2) function to rename entries
- New: username used in host directory entries can be shown in the host directories main window
- New: the username of a host directory entry can now contain the placeholder %DOMAIN% (login domain)
- New: host directory entry can be configured to use external FTP client like FileZilla

Telnet/ssl connections:
- New: option to select desired TLS mode in more detail
- New: when keepalive is active, then telnet-NOP packets are also sent every 60 seconds
- New: telnet proxy now accepts usernames that contain @-chars, e.g. user@domain@proxy

Ssh connections:
- New: supports FIDO based hardware encryption tokens
- New: supports Windows-Hello based encryption plugs (e.g. yubi-key with FIDO)
- New: supports Windows OpenSSH ssh-agent
- New: SSH jumphost uses same mechanism as OpenSSH (via ssh stdio-forwarding proxy)
- New: SSH jumphost and proxy now accepts usernames that contain @-chars, e.g. user@domain@jumphost
- New: SSH zoc-agent now allows preloading keys from PKCS#11 compliant cards/tokens
- New: SSH now supports custom option -o AddKeyToAgent=yes
- New: SSH can now generate FIDO2 keys (Tools menu)

Xterm emulation:
- New: Xterm custom rgb colors (via "esc[38;2;R;G;Bm" sequence) now also appear in scrollback
- New: for keys with qualifiers Xterm now also reports Alt and Ctrl states
- New: option to send Del key as Ctrl+D for (legacy systems and ibm-uss)
- New: option to not wrap to next line at the end of a line

Vt emulations:
- New: soft-font support for VT terminals
- New: improvements with VT420 user defined messages in writeable-status-line
- New: for keys with qualifiers VT emulations report Alt and Ctrl
- New: VT emulations now have an option to suppress end-of-line wrapping
- New: VT100 and VT102 now also accept VT52-style controls (esc-W, esc-X) for print-through

Tn3270 emulation:
- New: many new keyboard mappings, e.g. Ctrl+Z for Undo, Shift+Home for HomeCmd (see Help-menu > Keyboard)
- New: option to change cursor appearance in insert mode
- New: option to not reset insert mode on AID keys
- New: option to make ins key not toggle insert mode
- New: option to highlight Fnn and PFnn on screen and make them clickable
- New: option to allows free definition of background and status bar color
- New: option to allow pasting of matching content over protected areas (e.g. copy/paste whole screens)
- New: option to convert nulls characters to the left of indented text into space characters
- New: new separate color dialog in TN3270 settings
- New: option to specify the background color of editable (unprotected) fields
- New: option in program settings > mouse to use a right-click as CusorSelect/Lightpen
- New: key for custom mapping HomeCmd (jumps to the "Command ===>" field)
- New: key for custom mapping LowerHome (lowermost leftmost editable field)
- New: key for custom mapping MoveBOL (jumps to the beginning of line, e.g. in ISPF edit)
- New: key for custom mapping DeleteNextWord (deletes the word to the right)
- New: key CursorSelect (acts like the cursor-select hardware function)
- New: actual key mapping: Alt+Enter for MoveBOL (beginning of same line)
- New: actual key mapping: Alt+Home for LowerHome
- New: actual key mapping: Ctrl+Del for DeleteNextWord
- New: REXX command ZocGetInfo("TN3270FIELDATTR x y") returns more detailed attributes for the field
- New: support for TN3270 Arab CP 420 and Hebrew CP 424
- New: performance tweaks in screen updates, especially when using the crosshair cursor
- New: display CAPS-LOCK mode in status line
- New: IND$FILE upload now allows longer entry of DCB for uploaded files

Wyse emulation:
- New: Wyse emulation now has option to send ICH1 instead of toggling INS mode
- New: Wyse emulation now has option to suppress end-of-line wrapping
- New: Wyse emulation now show cursor in darker color on protected fields

Tvi9xx emulations:
- New: TVI emulation now has option to send letters a-z always in uppercase
- New: TVI emulation now has option to send ICH1 instead of toggling INS mode
- New: TVI emulation now show cursor in darker color on protected fields
- New: TVI emulation now has option to suppress end-of-line wrapping

File-transfer:
- New: Kermit file transfer now has an option to choose file type (or automatic detection)
- New: Kermit now has better error handling and better structured progress
- New: Better handling of progress messages and end of transfer (e.g. error counting)
- New: If possible, SCP, Zmodem and Kermit download files to a temporary file and only rename to final on completion
- New: IND$FILE now allows longer entry of DCB for uploaded files

Rexx scripting:
- New: Use of external REXX modules like RxSQL by putting them directly into the ZOC program folder
- New: ZocSetScriptOutputDestination
- New: ZocPing(, )
- New: ZocGetInfo("TN3270FIELDATTR x y") returns more detailed attributes.
- New: ZocGetInfo("OWNIPS")
- New: ZocGetInfo("CONNECTEDTORAW")
- New: ZocGetInfo("CONNECTEDTOIP")
- New: ZocGetInfo("DOMAINNAME")
- New: ZocSessionTabs with new sub-command "WRITE"
- New: The file for the ZocGlobalStore command is now protected against concurrent network access
- New: REXX ZocGlobalStore now provides better return codes for errors

Support libraries:
- New: SSH now based on OpenSSH 9.3
- New: all encryption now based on OpenSSL 3.3.3
- New: sftp now based on LIBSSH2 1.11
- New: REXX interpreter now based on Regina REXX 3.9.6

Miscellaneous:
- New: Visual flash (as replacement for beep) now longer and more noticeable
- New: Keyboard mapping now has a function to delete all mappings (via 'Show' dialog)
- New: NetTerm compatible sequences can now also open file:// links
- New: Transfer-menu > Sending Text/Binary File now has a pause button
- New: Shows version numbers of support libraries (e.g. OpenSSL) in Help > Product Information
- New: Support for codepage DOS Turkish (CP 857)
- New: First run with question about usage now in ZOC, removed from setup.exe (now also works for macOS)
- New: Extra-pixel border (Program Settings > Window) also applies to full-screen mode
- New: Better detection of double-width characters in range U+2600 - U+2FFF
- New: Commandline parameters /SSHUSER and /SSHPASSWORD in combination with /SSH parameter
- New: Control character ^° that causes a pause in sending (e.g. for key remapping)
- New: Control character ^? to send DEL (7Fh)

Changes (functions that will differ from zoc v8 or may even break existing behavior):
- Chg: Alt+1 to Alt+9 key-combinations to switch tabs now have higher priority (e.g. over emulation keys)
- Chg: cursor blink frequency was moved from program settings to session profile
- Chg: removed session profile > keyboard > keyboard-codepage (input is now always unicode)
- Chg: launching sessions via urls (e.g. ssh://user@host) now tries to open a new tab if a window already exists
- Chg: option to "release device if minimized" moved from session profile to Serial/Modem options
- Chg: script won't satisfy ZocWaits with overlapping values from previous data e.g. ZocWait("A");ZocWait("AB");
- Chg: script waiting for a CR+LF as ZocWait("^M^J") will not reset ZocLastline on LF or "^J"
- Fix: possible when using internal ZOC agent: "agent key [hash] returned incorrect signature type"
- Del: removed option to show pictures while downloading


ZOC Terminal 8.10.5
- Changed: will offer less incremental sizing-steps for very large fonts
- Fixed: excess loading time on 4K monitors with many fixed-width fonts


ZOC Terminal 8.10.4
Fixed:
- Key mappings with a ^! sequence (send-break) did not work
- Possible assert error when decoding incorrect UTF8 sequences


ZOC Terminal 8.10.3
Fixed:
- cursor positioning problem with fish.v4 shell
- improvements with display of unicode symbols (e.g. nvim :checkhealth)


ZOC Terminal 8.10.2
Fixed:
- Possible crash when dragging file into terminal window with IND$FILE enabled
- Possible problem with SSL connections


ZOC Terminal 8.10.1
Fixed:
- Crash in TN5250 when a READ_MDT_ALTERNATE command was received
- Xterm de-iconify sequence also changed window state from maximized to normal
- Possible crash when making SSH connection with many global key-files


ZOC Terminal 8.10.0
- New: right-click menu in file transfer window to copy progress log


ZOC Terminal 8.09.2
- Fixed: ANSI-BBS erase-sequence (esc[K) erases with background color


ZOC Terminal 8.09.1
- Chg: zmodem now strips path from receiving filename
- Fix: occasional display of incorrect error messages when using SSH tunnels
- Fix: inconsistent selection of entries in host directory when using search filter


ZOC Terminal 8.09.0
Fixed:
- problem when running instances from two different local installations
- ftp access to SFTP hosts with IPv6 addresses
- various quirks when using the Find (Ctrl+F) window in scrollback
- REXX ZocWait('^M') was sometimes not found even it appeared in the data stream


ZOC Terminal 8.08.8
Fixed:
- problems with european umlauts in TN3270 emulation
- problems creating radio buttons in REXX custom dialogs


ZOC Terminal 8.08.7
Fixed:
- Crash when pressing Esc key in the datastream viewer window (macOS only)
- Cursor positioning quirk in QNX emulation
- Quirk when handling of highlight attribute in VT220, xterm, etc
- Problem with TN3270/Telnet connects via REXX ZocConnect command
- Possible problem with MFA over SSH
- Incorrect progress percentage when sending very large files (Transfer > Send Binary File)


ZOC Terminal 8.08.6
Fixed:
- sending some idle action strings actually caused disconnect in TN3270
- problem with SSH FTP connections when using global ssh keys


ZOC Terminal 8.08.4
Fixed:
- problem with TN3270 PF-keys in unbound state
- sometimes secure shell options in session profile were not saved


ZOC Terminal 8.08.3
- Changed: file transfer windows stays open for longer when errors occurred

Fixed:
- some operating system dependent parts were missing from help file
- problem with error messages that contained European umlauts e.g. when telnet connects failed
- colorful tabs mode was broken after v8.08.1


ZOC Terminal 8.08.2
Changed:
- TN3270 option to fill left side with spaces now stops at beginning of line
- TN3270 now again does resets Insert mode on Enter/PF3, etc. (undo change from 8.08.1)

Fixed:
- output of ongoing slow-scrolling text sometimes stalled
- TN3270 could not login to systems if login screen was unbound


ZOC Terminal 8.08.1
Changed:
- TN3270 now clears selection on PF3/PF8, etc
- TN3270 now does not reset Insert mode on Enter/PF3, etc
- TN3270 now resets input-locked when moving the cursor using the mouse
- less jittery output on some progress bar (e.g. python "pip install xxxx")

Fixed:
- performance issue with TN3270 screens
- some TN3270 country codepages did change into another value after editing session profile
- TN3270 destructive backspace went too far when backspacing over the left edge of a field
- possible TN3270 connection loss when pressing F-key in unbound state
- pressing Alt+Right in an empty unformatted 3270 screen caused lockup
- TN3270 crashed when entering an EUR currency sign
- some quirky behavior related cut (ctrl+x) and marking with shift arrows in TN3270
- sometimes lost options for Telnet/SSL after saving a session profile
- handling of European umlauts related to keyboard codepage in session profile


ZOC Terminal 8.08.0
New:
- function to copy ssh public-key to clipboard (Tools menu)

Fixed:
- possible crash when starting the program
- session profile > keyboard sometimes showed wrong content for mapped keys
- host directory saved names with European umlauts and some special characters incorrectly
- some TN3270 country codepages did change into another value after editing session profile

Changed:
- printer margins can now have up to two decimals
- max number of lines in scrollback increased to 128000


ZOC Terminal 8.07.7
Fixed:
- possible crash when modifying user buttons from a script
- possible crash when logging in using a ssh-cert
- possible crash when temp folder is not writable
- incorrect ssh message about failed login, when it was actually a partial success
- clicking on a user-button in some cases opened the help window instead


ZOC Terminal 8.07.6
- Chg: minor design changes in tabs, pulldownmenus and toolbar
- Fix: help texts were missing a lot of periods at end of sentence
- Fix: status bar items were misaligned when program started with status bar off


ZOC Terminal 8.07.5
- Fix: Window colors were broken when Windows was set to dark mode (Windows only)