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IBM i Access Family

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Set Wide Screen Mode (27x132) as the Default Option or (preferrably) the only option for ACS 5250 Configuration

When end-users setup their devices they don't have 20 to 40 years experience with *DS3 and *DS4 mode. They're not sure what 27x132 means. Since is it 2022 and not 1982, it would be better to default to 27x132 for ACS 5250 Display Configurations. I...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Create a non-Java based IBM ACS or at least a non-Java-based 5250 client

This issue continue to happen with new and some existing clients. They go from an older IBM i version to a new Power10 and then assume they can plug-play (upgrade) their legacy Client Access 5250 emulator with IBM ACS. Then they find out it is wri...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Provide option to set the Script pain font and output panel font separately in IBM ACS RUNSQL Scripts

I often need to set the output pain (resultset data) font to larger than that of the actual SQL statement that produced it. Today, they both get the same font. This request is to provide 2 font settings so that they do not need to be the same size...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

IBM Access Client Solutions (ACS) - to restrict/not restrict Filter option in Printer Output

Anyway IBM can enhanced the filter option in ACS - Printer Output for administrator to restrict or not to restrict for end user. This printer output option very useful to user to view/save spool file in pdf. Sometimes some user will explore the Pr...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS Keypad

Personalizzazzione tastiera "ACS Keypad".E' possibile visualizzare una keypad nella parte bassa dello schermo, vorrei fosse possibile personalizzare i tasti che si possono visualizzare e anche la dimensione dei tasti. Use Case: Il motivo di questa...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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

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

ACS Printer Output - Export spool file list to Excel

It would be nice if we had the ability in ACS Printer Output to export the list of spool files that displays (after filters have been applied). Not download a spool file, but rather the list of spool files. We can use this list to help users deter...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add Macro functionality to iaccess 11.0.8

On iAccess 6.0 for windows (e.g.IBM System iAccess for Windows R610 SI29455) , it was possible to use easy Macros/Scripts. These were textfiles starting with "Description=" in the first line, than line by line telling the machine what to do. For e...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS /PLUGIN=cldownload

I user ACS "acslaunch_win-64.exe /PLUGIN=cldownload /clientfile=XXXX.CSV" CSV format is fixed to UTF8 I want to select something other UTF-8 as in the file details of data transfer . Shift_JIS , windows-31j ..etc Use Case: file transfer FROM IBMi ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration