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IBM i Access Family

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ACS Connection Management

We run about 130 ibm i partitions and use of course ACS to manage them. So in ACS the list of systems to choose to connect to is quite long. I guess most IBM i customers do not have such a large number of partitions and are not in the need of mana...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Access Client Solutions - What AcsConfig.properties is being used?

If you have more than one AcsConfig.properties file in the system how can you see in ACS what AcsConfig.properties is being used by ACS? It is easy to get information about the version of ACS and Java in the Help - Product information. Use Case: W...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

iACS Ability to change passwords for multiple systems

Password management in iACS - allow for the changing of one or more system passwords at one time Use Case: In iACS - "Systems Configurations" does not give you the ability to change any passwords. This request would be for the following: - Add a "...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Add SQL Assist to Run SQL Scripts

Add SQL Assist capability back into Run SQL Scripts. Use Case: In the old System i Navigator, (the predecessor to IBM i Access Client Solutions) there was an option to Run an SQL script when viewing tables or schemas. When the "Run SQL Scripts" wi...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Allow users to require system name folder in printer output

We are moving away from iAccess and using ACS (Access Client Solutions). The users make extensive use of downloading spool files to .txt on the PC or network. Problem:1. When setting up the download location, the system name is not shown as being ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Key Management tool in IBMi Access Client Solutions

The Key Management tool within IBMi Access Client Solutions does not have the same functionality as the IBM Key Management tool within IBMi Access for Windows.Within the ACS version you can only view/delete/export signer certificates. There is no ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

I would like to see a verify connection option on the Console tab to verify connection to console ports.

It would be very helpful to have a verify connection option on the Console tab of Management and System Configuration just like there is on the General Tab. This would allow us to verify that we have the console ports active (3001, 3002 and 2323. ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS - Toggle On/Off Column Separators on Print Screens

Please add a check box in Print Screen Setup that allows us to turn off the column separators when doing a print screen. We need to have them visible on the screen, but when we do a screen print, they make the printout very hard to read. This chec...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 12 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

IBM i Access - Client Solutions/ Run SQL - display arabic characters by jt400 driver configuration

the Run SQL feature of IBM i Access Client Solutions is currently unable to display Arabic characters that are stored in the IBM i database, even if the CCSID of the user. job and the database file are all set to CCSID 420. Use Case: Our business ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

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