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IBM i Access Family

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Length of last field (numeric) in .fdfx not honored

During file upload (data transfer), for numeric fields, the length parameter for the last field specified in the .fdfx file is ignored, and instead all digits to the end of the record are attempted to be placed in the corresponding IBM i field. Th...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need for ACS IFS to prompt for security on every file

The ACS IFS interface continually prompts for every file upload or download, yet I can traverse the directory structure without having to provide security every time. Please change the ACS IFS interface to prompt for security once if more than one...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ACS ENPTUI GUI Window Board to be graphical

Enhance the so-called GUI Border for 5250 windows (both DDS and DSM) so that they are rendered using actual drawn borders, instead of textual characters that were embedded to support fixed-dimension displays; displays that no longer exist. Use Cas...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Make DDMF objects appear in the schema views

ALL objects of the system type *FILE should appear in the schema view so that I may be able to rename the object. Use Case: I have DDMF objects that I want to replace with a three part named object alias. BUT it the name I choose is the same as th...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

ACS CHGJOB INQMSGRPY(*RQD)

Hello,We have noticed that any query run from the Run sql statement program does an auto reply to messages. For example, when inserting into a file that has reached its maximum capacity, the program inserts as many lines as possible and then retur...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Printing from IBM i Access Client Solutions

Software: IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS)Actor: User wants same printing behavior as IBM i Access for Windows (CA/400) Customer is using Printing session from CA/400 for printing *SCS spool files to Epson dot matrix printer. Since CA/400 does ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign on

we have a third party single signon for most of our windows apps, we would like to be able to have single signon also for IBM i , we currently can get the credentials to go, with no emulation or get the emulation to a signon screen. we cannot pass...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Access Client Solutions takes 50 to 60 seconds to start first session

The time used by Access Client Solutions (ACS) to start the first time need to be improved. From I click on the icon on my Desktop till the window prompting me for userid and password is shown it takes about 50 to 60 seconds !!! This is way to lon...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

All sessions are stopped at once

Some session can start at once by batch files on ACS.But all session are not ended at once. Use Case: iAW can handle batch session to start and stop at once. But ACS can only start batch session.ACS can't stop batch session. We want to stop all se...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window

Allow changing Record Format Name in ACS Schema Table Definition Window after the table has already been created. The field is only available during the new table creation. Use Case: You chose the auto-generated name, but would later like to fix t...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration