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IBM i Access Family

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    Allow changes in ACS setup to retrieve and display existing setup values

    We have more than 300 users at this location and several more at other facilities. An administration type function would be appreciated where the setup can be stored at a central point for each device. Any changes would be on hand and could then b...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

    Some GUI enhancements for the Schema Browser in ACS

    Some GUI enhancements for the Schema Browser. 1. If you open a table list, only some tables are shown. If you scroll down, the list will be extended and more tables become visible. The list could be directly extended in a background thread. 2. If ...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Add Support for both left and rights ide CMD/CTRL/OPT keys in ACS Run SQL Scripts

    When using IBM ACS on the Apple Mac computer (running macOS) and using a computer that has a full-size keyboard, the right-side CMD, OPT, and Ctrl keys do not work for navigation, cut/paste and other standard/normal use. I do not know if Windows h...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Local Network Speed Test

    This feature would allow ACS to help a user test the speed from their computer to the server. This could, potentially via the SSH protocol, write a file to the /tmp directory while logging transfer time, then download that same file after logging ...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    ibm i access client solutions-windows- hosted/roaming $user$/home support

    IBM i Access doesn't seem to respect Window's $User$/home paths for roaming profiles. Options in iACS to 'save items to desktop' will create a local desktop directory and download an item there instead of downloading to the hosted/roaming desktop ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Add "Map your database" to IBM i Access Client Solutions and/or IBM Navigator for i

    In the deprecated System i Navigator you had this function "Map your database". It would print a graphical representation of your database. For example, if you had foreign key constraints between tables,like those common for:- Item Master to Item ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    ACS update to include built in token acceptance for Oauth or Open ID connect

    See case TS013914045 for background
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    xlsx file format transferfile from ACS dtfx crashes external pivot table with link to that xlsx

    We work with pivot tables in Excel with link to source XLSX files, daily refreshed with dtfx files and java-code from Power i.Filetransfer we did before with RXFERPCB.exe and DTF files and all pivot tables worked fine.Now we transfer the files wit...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Support autECL in IBM i ACS (macro's)

    A customer has written several hundreds of macro's for IBM i Access for Windows based on Automation Objects (autECL) which isn't supported by IBM i ACS. Based on the IBM case which states "Now, internally IBM i ACS does leverage HACL, but it doesn...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Provide support for 27x132 5250 system console on HMC managed partitions

    Provide support for 27x132 5250 system console on HMC managed partitions. Use Case: End users are unable to sign on to our system console because their default application requires that the 5250 device support a 27x132 display. We are forced to us...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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