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My votes: IBM i Access Family

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222 VOTE

Request about Printing forms with ruled line on ACS.

■Description & BackgroundOn IBM i Access for Windows or Pcomm,it is possible to output forms to the printer by a GDI printing capability of a windows printer session.But that is not possible on ACS. On ACS, for printing forms with ruled line,i...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered
149 VOTE

SQL prompting in ACS

The new SQL tool in ACS make so much more sense than the old STRSQL - however, the prompt feature from the STRSQL where schemas, tables, columns can be selected from drop-down to construct SQL statements is really missing in the new ACS. Use Case:...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered
138 VOTE

Enhance the interface for Run SQL Script in IBM i ACS

I would like to see the Run SQL Script interface support "." dot prompting for columns with descriptions, types and length. For example when typing in a select statement the user would use an alias such as:"Select a.column from mytable a"Once the ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

ACS automatic temporary file cleanup, please add functionality

Add at least a command line option to instruct ACS to NOT leave temporary files in /tmp if the run was successful and the exit clean. Each process and application if successful should manage its temporary storage properly. We run ACS directly on t...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Add ability to capture ACS OSS Package Upgrade log

As part of my team's patch management to our customers, we have to log dealts and resulting levels for all updates to IBM OSS components, we do this on multiple LPARs on multi servers. The Package upgrade dialog generated by ACS OSS tool is ideal ...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

change *ALLOBJ authority needed to drop columns using the ACS schemas editing interface

When you change a table (drop a column) through the ACS grapical interface you need *ALLOBJ to do so.The reason is that ACS adds and removes an autoreply (needing *ALLOBJ) to handle the inquiry message to confirm the drop (data loss) CPA32B2.When ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Allow for multiple commands from one cli process.

When creating multiple connections via the acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg command. Each command is run in its own jvm which can take a long time to process when creating lots of connections. If we could string multiple commands into one jvm process thi...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Run SQL Scripts - Autocomplete

Just like RDI or any else IDE you can autocomplete or look up fields when writing code. It would be great if this would be available in Run Sql as well and in best case it would also be able to handle a library list for those of us with multiple s...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Requesting EHLLAPI support for 64bit Office

The EHLLAPI bridge for Access Client Solutions is not compatible with Microsoft Office 64 bit (see case reply from IBM) and I would like to request that it be made compatible. Use Case: Macro requires connectivity from VBA (Visual Basic for Applic...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 16 Delivered

ODBC driver for MAC Os in iAccess Client Solution

Various customers ask us for the availibility of a ODBC driver to connect to Ibm i from a MacOs environment. Use Case: A top or directional user who use MacOs on their laptop, with Microsoft Office Excel pivot who need to be updated from an Ibm i ...
about 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

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