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IBM i Access Family

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    ACS Hotspots

    We would like to take full advantage of ACS Hotspots but there is a conflict with programs where the mouse button has been enabled to recognise a double-click. The ENTER at cursor position also treated as double-click takes precedence and returns ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    ACS Local Screen Print Behavior Like PC5250

    Make the local screen print button function in ACS like it did in the 5770-XE1, Access for Window Client. Use Case: When users print the screen the font is too small to read.Details in PMR
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Not under consideration

    Add option to select icon in Edit-Preferences-Appearance-Window Setup as per iAccess for Windows

    In iAccess for Windows you can select the icon that is displayed on the Windows taskbar and in the window itself via Edit-Preferences-Appearance -Window Setup. This function is missing in the equivilent option on ACS. This is a duplicate request a...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Not under consideration

    Microsoft Entity Framework 6.x support for IBM i DB2

    Please insert support for Microsoft Entity Framework (EF) 6.x in your latest IBM i OS's. The existing ADO.NET Data Provider shipped with IBM Access Client Solutions doesn't support any EF at all and with this you ignore Millions of .Net Developers...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Add keyboard mapping to Access for Web on the IBM i

    Client Access (Access for Windows) provided keyboard mapping. When using Access for Web it doesn't allow you to map specific functions (Field Exit, Destructive Backspace, Field Plus etc.) causing users to have a more difficult time entering data r...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    ACS to show system description in System Select pulldown

    Would like the System Selection pulldown in iAccess Client to show both the system name (which is usually the IP address) AND the description field. Use Case: Ease of administrating multiple systems.
    about 8 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...
    11 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...
    11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 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...
    11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    DDS: left justify values when entering numeric field and right justify when leaving

    I would like the 5250 emulation to left justify the content in numeric fields when the cursor enters the field ( on focus ) and right justify it like hitting Field+ when leaving ( on blur ). Today many users are maneuvering around on the screen us...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

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