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IBM i Access Family

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    1371E support

    The ACS emulator updated its 1371 host code page support to the 2016 versions of the mapping's in November 2017. This support uses the compatibility CJK ideographs and does not support the characters in plane 2 as no surrogates are supported by th...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Allow use of other ACS Tabbed 5250 sessions whilst another is Authenticating

    Allow use of other ACS Tabbed 5250 sessions whilst another is Authenticating. See attached screenshot for example. At the moment, if in tabbed mode, ALL tabbed sessions are locked and can not be used whilst the "Signon in Progress" dialogue displa...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    IBM i ACS supports unicode display

    we store unicode characters in AS400 DB2 but AS400 ACS can't display unicode characters, this makes users work inconvenient. Use Case: could you please help to modify ACS to support displaying unicode characters?
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Not under consideration

    Access Client Solutions -> XLSX autofit

    When i use ACS with *CLDOWNLOAD on IBM I to generate a XLSX stream file on IFS . I have to do the autofit of XLSX columns manually . Can you add this propertie to AcsConfig.properties to do get a XLSX stream file autofitted . Use Case: java -jar /...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    ACS ANDROID

    Today ACS works on WINDOWS, LINUX and MAC.I wish that tomorrow we can use it on ANDROID Use Case: Install ACS on my chromebook to be able to work at home
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Accessibility for IBM I Client Access Solutions - 5250 Emulation

    Need Accessibility options for IBM I Client Access solutions v. 1.1.8.5 emulation for the visually impaired. Specifically 5250 emulation. Use Case: I have co-worker that is unable to use 5250 emulation. This is impacting her ability to complete da...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Speed up IFS upload function in iACS

    Version: 1.1.8.5I open up IFS for one lpar. I tell it I want to upload from my pc. I have a directory with three 3.8gb binary files which are part of an image catalog.I started uploading one with the iACS function.I gave it a 10% head start.Then I...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Need ability to run a SQL script after double clicking on the scripts file in the folder.

    I have built a number of scripts which colleagues have discovered and want to use. We need a way to be able to double click on the SQL's script file name in the folder example sql_script.sql and have the script load up and execute/run in the ACS S...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    create ability to specify IFS path for IFS plugin to allow creating of short cuts

    Other ACS plugins allow for additional properties so that you can create links/short cuts to narrow down the user's choices. Please expand this capability to the IFS so that I can pass an IFS path. I want to create short cuts to several IFS folder...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    5250 session blurry in Windows 10 1920x1080 screen with 125% zoom

    5250 session screen very blurry after new installed laptops with 1920x1080 screen and 125% zoom.With 100% zoom, the letters on the screen are to little.Default font IBM3270. I've tried to change the properties from Access Client Solutions on my de...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

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