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IBM i Access Family

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ACS - clear keyboard buffer when showing RSS results

When the result of a SQL statement in Run SQL Script is shown, the keyboard buffer is not cleared and the result window will pickup the next keystroke in the buffer. This is very annoying when the next keystroke is F5 - especially when the SQL sta...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

CLDOWNLOAD Plug-In SQL support for 'column AS header'

The SQL statement, in the CDDOWNLOAD plugin is enclosed between double quotes ("), restricting the use of the SELECT... AS... clause, to assign a different column header, limiting the scope of the statement. Use Case: Most of the time, when transf...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

SQL Formatting options

Please allow for the selection of formatting features on a per user basis. Right now when you format SQL it performs all actions of formatting. Use Case: In ACS RSS tool, Edit, SQL Formatter, configure. In the open dialog I would like the ability ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Request ACS5250 emulator to enable ENTFLDATR on Bypass Field

The implementation of the IBM i ACS 5250 emulator has disabled a feature that exists within the Personal Communications based emulators. Specifically, it does not allowing highlighting a field that is a bypass field. This was done to follow the 54...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

RSS-VE Flip mouse scroll and CTRL-Scroll functions or let us config

Within the VE module of the RSS component.When I have a VE open and the tree is shown, the action of the scroll wheel of the mouse and the action of the CTRL-Scroll Wheel are backwards. The default of the mouse scroll wheel should be scrolling the...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

ACS should have an option NOT to auto-populate the user id field

ACS should have an option NOT to auto-populate the user id field. In a shared environment like a terminal server, we don't want each user to see the previous user's "user profile" auto-populated in the user id field. It should be possible to leave...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Migrate .cae file with .ws to Client Solutions .hod

When using the Access client solutions plug in to migrate .ws files to .hod, if the .ws file is configured to use Kerberos the kerberos settings are not copied as the .cae file is not migrated. Use Case: Can this be considered for future release a...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

ACS APW print support

Printer session of IBM i Access Client Solutions does not support APW forms with bar codes and ruled lines. The client has many kinds of printers so they cannot use PDT or HPT. Therefore, the client requires the enhancement of Java printing servic...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS refresh query from results window

Add a button and/or menu item w/ hotkey to the SQL results window to rerun the query and refresh the results in the existing results window instead of spawning a new window. Use Case: When "Display Results in Separate Window" is selected, running ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

iACS does not support accessing spreadsheets that reside on Microsoft One Drive or Sharepoint

iACS does not support accessing spreadsheets that reside on Microsoft One Drive or Sharepoint, or similar environments. Use Case: Need support for accessing spreadsheets that reside on Microsoft One Drive or Sharepoint, or similar environments;
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered