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IBM i Access Family

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ACS SQL Performance Monitor

When starting an SQL Performance Monitor in IBMi ACS using the Wizard, in the first screen you are able to enter a job name and Job user. The job number is missing. Use Case: If you want to select a specific job number to work with, you have to ma...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Allow change system in ACS Schemas view

It would be nice to be able to change the system you are connected to in Schemas in ACS like you are able to do in Run SQL Statements and other ACS components. Use Case: Quickly and easily switch between schemas in different systems
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

.bat Data Transfer logging

I am doing a data transfer request through a .bat file. It is recording some financial data so I was required to write logs whenever the transfer is run. I was able to get the transfer to work fine, but adding in the logging seams to have broken i...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

add ascii to ebcdic converter to ACS IFS

please add option to automatically convert ebcdic to ascii data during "integrated file system" file download in IBM i Access Client Solutions Use Case: We have a lot of files which are stored within IFS in EBCDIC format.When we download these fil...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

Allow keyboard shortcuts on the password about to expire message in the 5250 emulator

When the ACS 5250 emulator displays the "password about to expire, do you want to change it" message, you have to use the mouse to click Yes or No. Please provide keyboard shortcuts so that you can just press Y or N to answer the question. The Win...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

iAccess Client Solutions Default Macro Location

When saving recorded macros or running previously recorded macros, have the option to change the default from Current Session to Personal Library ( C:\Users\<username>\IBM\ClientSolutions\config_directory\IBM\iAccessClient\Emulator\ ). Use C...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Show some sort of splashscreen when starting ACS Session Manager

When you open the main Access Client Solutions it displays the “Working…” window so the user knows something is happening while they wait for ACS to start. But if you just open the Session Manager there is no indication that it is starting. As it ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS General Font Size

The opening screen of ACS when opening acsbundle.jar has a fixed font size. At times that is very small and I can barely read the screen. We need to be able to change the font size via the view menu for this and any of the ACS screens. Today only ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

IBM ACS IFS day of last use or configurable fields

Can you expand the listing of the IFS entries with the day of last use. Better:Make it configurable which fields i want to see. Use Case: looking for old data.
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Request for continuous printing of using PDT file of ACS

・ Print multiple spooled files in succession.・ The attributes such as page size, CPI, LPI of each spooled files are the same value.・ Use PDT. exampleExecute three consecutive spooled files of the page length is 27 rows.Use default PDT file「IBM 557...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered