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IBM i Access Family

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Please add a prompt to run the setup functions again.

Today, we needed to add the IFS option onto a users screen. I could not find an option to allow me to do so. When we ran the install option, it simply ran the install with no prompts. Administrators on the IBM i are not always authorized to access...
12 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

When Automatic Resize is turned on for 5250 sessions with multiple tabs, make each tab selected resize the window as needed.

Automatic resize is turned on for a 5250 session with multiple tabs. The first tab displays a 27x132 screen and the window resizes. When the second tab is selected, the window does not resize if that is a 24x80 screen so there is lots of blank spa...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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

See case TS013914045 for background
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Password manager integration in ACS

It would be great to have an integration where I could store all my passwords in for example 1Password and easily populate user id and password in ACS from there.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add a Save Results As... option to the File or Tools menu.

Having to launch the 1980's File Transfer Program to pull down data is embarrassing. When I have a resultset in the lower pane, I should be able to simply save that resultset as XLSX or CSV to my local PC.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Problem with special characters in IBM i Access Client Solution ACS run sql script

I found a problem with the content assist function in the Run Sql Script module of the ACS product.If the library or object has one of the following characters ($ £ §), auto-completion will not work.Problem 1) No message is output with the $ chara...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Hide EULA agreement in .properties file

It would be great if the EULA agreement could be disabled from being seen by use of a parameter in the .properties file. The current "silent" EULA solution for ACS involves running a .js script in "Admin Config" mode. My current deployment however...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add information indicating that the session is open with ACS

Many companies are slowly converting video sessions from Client Access to ACS. In order to monitor the progress of these upgrades it would be useful to have an SQL service that lists the video devices, which also reports a field indicating that th...
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS - Support Defining Multiple System Configs for one Server

Right now you con only define one Configuration for a given system.It would be nice to have the ability to define multiple Configurations to a single system that have different settings like user name and what not. Use Case: I am doing work as a d...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Shorten the time in RSS before the message "communication link failure. (Operation timed out)" is shown.

When using IBM i Access Client Solutions - Run SQL Scripts (RSS), I think nearly all of us did try to run an SQL request while the connection was lost due to the fact that the connection was lost with the system due to the operation time out.I hav...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

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