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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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IBM i Access Family

Add size column to Performance Monitors in SQL Performance Center | IBM i Access Client Solutions

Add size column to Performance Monitor and Plan cache Event Monitor for easier monitoring of the current size multiple of the monitors just refreshing. Currently it's possible to check going into properties of the monitor one by one.
15 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Scott Forstie

At COMMON PowerUP, clients shared that they love to use ACS (via SQL) to generate CSV style spreadsheets.However, the current support generates a CSV that uses the comma character (',') as the delimiter.Clients are asking for the ability to influe...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

in ACS RunSQLScripts changes for "saving new example"

when I open a new tab, " Untitled 1" and then I save some fancy SQL as a new example, the save window inserts the appropriate comment lines. Those comment lines do not remain in the SQL code in the newly opened tab, that the tab remains "Untitled ...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Allow Copy of Table Column into Run SQL Scripts Statement

I would like to be able to right click on a column heading and select "Copy Column Name to SQL". When building an SQL statement, I often don't remember the column names and will run a "select * from" to get all the columns. In some cases (look at ...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Add Multiple Result Tabs to Run SQL Scripts

I often need to run multiple queries in different tables to analyze and compare results. For every query I run, the existing results are cleared and the new results are displayed. I would like the results to be retained until closed. I would sugge...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

ACS Run SQL Scripts - Move Tab to New Window

Sometimes I will have 2+ tabs open in a single Run SQL Scripts window, but then have a need to pull one out into its own window. Currently this is a manual process - Open a new window, open the desired SQL script or copy/paste the original tab's c...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

In RUN SQL Scripts enable common font resizing methods

Although Run SQL Scripts does support font resizing, the controls are difficult to access quickly and do not align with common or expected methods for changing font size. This slows me down, particularly when sharing my screen during conference ca...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

ACS IFS - resolve correctly "well known locations" to the real physical folder

Talking about Windows, ACS seems to not respect the client setting, assuming that the position of well known folders is fixed in a system. For example in ACS IFS browser, Edit-Preferences-Download Location is set to "Downloads folder". ACS assumes...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

IFS: Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.

Please add the box "Apply update to all files in selected folder and any subfolders" that is available in Properties to also Permissions.
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration

Add documentation option to a SQL service in RSS

VS code has the brilliant option when hovering over a SQL service in a SQL request it allows you to search IBM documentation for this specific SQL service. This idea is about adding the same kind of functionality to ACS RSS if possible.
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Future consideration