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IBM i Access Family

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About the character code on ? of ACS version 1.1.8.4 or later

Due to the RFE 132374 "ACS --Enable to input ¥ view" Yen "and" Backslash "at the same time", the character code of ¥ on ACS (version 1.1.8.4 or later) is now x'B2'. Clients often use ¥ at the beginning of commands, so the commands that include ¥ c...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Allow use of full screen width by ,Dynamic scaling HTML5 enhancement to the Access for Web and Mobile Access for the 5250

It would be more user friendly if the iamobile 5250 emulator app dynamically used the full screen width on newer IPADS. Currently it only uses about 2/3 of the screen. Use Case: Our executives need to able to access our iseries quickly , without h...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

ACS Schema Browser - Support viewing journal entries and managing journals on files

Bring back Journal viewing and editing functionality previously found in IBM i Navigator to the ACS Schemas Browser that was ported from IBM i Navigator to ACS. Additionally, add the ability to script the human readable data to excel or CSV, or as...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Run CL command on several systems using 5250 sessions

In large IBMi shared environment it would be good to have possibility to run the same CL command in the same time on MORE than one 5250 session in ACS. Running the same command on several system one by one (for checking purposes or comparing) is r...
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

In ACS on the command line when you run a transfer from IBM i to excel without a dtfx you can not specify the locale values such as date format or decimal point

Anybody using ACS and doing batch transfer of data. This is a basic setting in countries outside US and it is blocking larger adoption of this functionality.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Not under consideration

data Transfer Component for EXCEL ( excel Add-in )

I am asking You the implementation of IBMi Access data Transfer Component for EXCEL ( excel Add-in ) provided with the IBM I Access for Windows product ( CWBTFCAI.DLL ) and not present in the new IBMi Access Client Solution product.Almost all of o...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Not under consideration

IBM I ACCESS FOR WEB ENHANCEMENT

In IBM i Access for WebWhen using query provide option to returncolumn heading/labels instead of just field names.Under Database/Run SQL or My Requests. Use Case: When trying to get away from old as400 query users could use IBM i access for web to...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Please add a prompt to run the setup functions again. (Resubmitted)

Please see the idea I created before with the same title. The functionality needed as you say is already in the system. I disagree. Control is available but is totally in the hands of the PC and network folk. They are not responsible for the secur...
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Hide EULA agreement in .properties file

It would be great if the EULA agreement could be disabled from being seen by use of a parameter in the .properties file. The current "silent" EULA solution for ACS involves running a .js script in "Admin Config" mode. My current deployment however...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Problem with special characters in IBM i Access Client Solution ACS run sql script

I found a problem with the content assist function in the Run Sql Script module of the ACS product.If the library or object has one of the following characters ($ £ §), auto-completion will not work.Problem 1) No message is output with the $ chara...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration