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My ideas: IBM i Access Family

ACS - Add generate SQL for Columns selected in View

In ACS, a recent enhancement allowed user to modify the Columns being viewed for a result set. The View Columns panel enables you to select/omit columns and reorder them. Please add the ability to return/generate a window of SQL code that reflects...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

Access Client Solutions IFS timestamp format and timezone

Currently the Access Client Solutions IFS component shows file timestamps in a textual format, eg. "9 February 2022 at 16:30:29 GMT". There is no alignment and a varying width font is used. The timestamp is shown in local (PC client) timezone. 1. ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

Access Client Solutions enhancement

Via Edit > Preferences the Passwords tab is very useful to change my passwords on multiple systems in one time (by selecting multiple). My problem is to select the correct ones. It would be a great enhancement if an extra column would be added ...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

IBM i Access ODBC driver Connection Timeout

I am using the IBM i Access ODBC driver with PHP, and it does not currently have an option for "Connection Timeout". If the server DSN is temporarily unreachable, the PDO/ODBC connection will wait to timeout until the PHP max_execution_time is rea...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

ACS Integrated File System-Double click on file

ACS Integrated File System does not allow you to double-click on a file and open it. RDi supports this, and so do the file manage apps included in PC operating systems. When you double-click on a file, it show perform the same functionality as cho...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

ACS Run SQL script drop column limitation

When using ACS Run SQL script dropping a column from a table is now not possible without having to use a work around. The suggested work around is not without risks because it also effects other jobs running on the system. Use Case: When running t...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

ACS run SQL scripts: Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML etc.

Now we got the context menu for result sets in ACS - Run SQL scripts. So now I have a new request: It will be nice if it was possible to directly export the result set show in in the grid to common used formats like Excel ( Open XML) , CSV, plain ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

IBM i ACS Run SQL Scripts Open file sort order settings choice

As part of this request the default view when opening the folder for SQL scripts within ACS was changed from List to Detail requiring the users that prefer List view to select it upon entry each time they access the open file window. Requesting an...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

Eliminate / Upgrade Obsolete C++2013 from IBM i ACS

We recently downloaded the IBM i Access Client Solutions: Application Packages provided by AS 400 support for the iSeries\Genius connections under the subjected project. However, we found that there are some out of support software (C++ 2013) whic...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered

Journal Viewer-View Data Details-Add Prev/Next buttons

I'd like a Previous and Next button on the Journal Viewr...View Data Details window so I can roll thru the entries one after another and follow the trail of the entries and not have to right click on each one. Use Case: I am needing to look at the...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family Delivered