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IBM i Access Family

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ACS RSS Allow for overwrite cursor.

The SQL editor needs to allow for overwriting characters. Use Case: Attempt to change a single character many times on many lines of SQL code. YOu are forced to insert your new character then delete the unwanted character.
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Add Ability to Disable Menu Bar on Popup Keypad

Users are able to modify the Popup Keypad in ACS 1.1.8.3 Build 9490 Use Case: User have three options provided to them on the popup keypad: 1) Connect 2) Disconnect 3) Exit All. Having the menu visible and functional, could allow a user to modify ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

allow configuration of Hardware management interfaces via commandline in ACS

please add possibility to configure hardware management interfaces in ACS via commandline Use Case: We have a lot of IBM i systems in our system configuration list. Since ACS v1.1.8.2 it is possible to configure up to 6 hardware management interfa...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Allow user to request more than 100 rows in Run SQL Scripts by default

Example: I am running a scan against the entire IFS for largest files. It takes 17-18 minutes or so to run. I can't ask for more than 100 results until after the 17-18 minutes. If I don't sit and watch it run, it closes the results before I can re...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

When upload by ACS IFS Tools, CCSID is changed.

Please add a option ccsid on ACS IFS Tools. Use Case: When I upload files ( UTF-8) to IFS on power, ACS IFS Tools changed files character code to 1041.That's confused.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Add Open Source Package Management to Main ACS Interface

Add option to launch Open Source Package Management from the main ACS (Griffin) Interface. Use Case: Improved usability, make the interface more consistent, as other system management functions are on this main ACS (Griffin) Interface.
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Request for Data Transfer of ACS,allow extra columns automatically truncation and file uploading as with IAW even with ACS.

We are using IBM i Access for Windows(IAW) to upload CSV file and Excel file from PC to IBM i.We would like to do similar processing in IBM i Access Client Solutions(ACS). When number of columns of input file is more data than number of columns of...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

RSS Remember/reopen tabs

Hi, In addition to https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1576 (auto saving RSS tabs) it would be great if RSS remembered which tabs were open and would reopen them when restarting RSS. In addition, unnamed tabs should also be stored...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Specify ACS Java JRE location

Give the option to specify the Java JRE home path. Or dynamically search for the latest/highest? package. When 2/multiple packages are in the startup location (Example: jre1.8.0_121 and jre1.8.0_191, it will use the 121 release), we'd want it to c...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Add property to ACS to limit access to the IFS path

Add the ability to set the ifs location of that particular ACS configuration and dont allow the users to go up from the path they started with. This would be done in the ACS properties file.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered