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IBM i Access Family

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Set the OK button as the default action on ACS Window Setup Panel

In the ACS "Windows Setup" screen please make the OK Button the default action when pressing the enter key. And while yer fixin that can you make it so that the "Window Setup" list is actually cleared? They live forever until ACS is restarted. See...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Change or remove JRE 1.6 from ACS WAP

The current IBM Access Client Solutions Windows Application Package delivers JRE 1.6 for the use of the iKeyMan tool when installed. Being that 1.6 has been deprecated, this is now considered a critical security vulnerability for my company that I...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

commit & rollback in Toolbox ribbon in Run SQL script

It would be great if Run Sql Script could have two new buttons - "commit" and "rollback" in Toolbox ribbon. if these two could be available only when applicable -> if isolation level in opened JDBC connection = '*NONE' THEN "greyed out" else "a...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

iACS Schema view sort database view language dependant

when using "schemas" window and open a schema, the possible selections / object types is sorted by its english name. In german language "Auslöser" (trigger) is listed at bottom as well as "Ansichten" (views).Only a little thing but sometimes confu...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Properly sign with an IBM owned certificate all the files used by iACS

The request is to provide to all programs, DLL and other components running on Windows platform an approved signature with a valid certificate owned by IBM as the publisher of the software. Use Case: When I start a session from iACS - Session mana...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 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 ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Sheet Name in Excel After Data Transfer

We've migrated almost all our old .dtf files to the new .dtfx format after upgrading most of our PCs from IBM i Client Access for Windows to Access Client Solutions. Transfers to and from the IBM i seem to have gone well, however we recently notic...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Add WebQuery Link to ACS

Add the ability to launch WebQuery Browser session from ACS client Use Case: To allow client to more easily launch web query from within ACS, just as we can Navigater for i, SSH, RUNSQL etc
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS Select System by description not name/IP

On main ASC screen the drop down to select a system, provide an option to select by System Description instead of name. Use Case: If System is configured via IP address and not DNS name, the Select a System drop down is not very useful.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Allow prompt variables in Run SQL Scripts

Add prompt variables to queries that run in the Run SQL Scripts application. This would allow generic queries to be reused for specific results. The Run SQL Scripts application would need a mechanism for entering the substitution variable data whe...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 10 Delivered