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IBM i Access Family

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    Add the ability to execute a custom AcsConfig.properties in a specific folder when calling acsbundle.jar

    I have to deploy ACS in a customer Citrix environnement, with different categories of user and with specific needs (limited access to IFS folders, no SQL client connections for just one category, ...).My intent would be to create as many AcsConfig...
    9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

    Allow for multiple commands from one cli process.

    When creating multiple connections via the acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cfg command. Each command is run in its own jvm which can take a long time to process when creating lots of connections. If we could string multiple commands into one jvm process thi...
    10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    Allow ACS to start in Group view

    I'd like ACS launch parameter that would start ACS in System Groups view directly - will be very helpful for those managing large number of partitions.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

    change *ALLOBJ authority needed to drop columns using the ACS schemas editing interface

    When you change a table (drop a column) through the ACS grapical interface you need *ALLOBJ to do so.The reason is that ACS adds and removes an autoreply (needing *ALLOBJ) to handle the inquiry message to confirm the drop (data loss) CPA32B2.When ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

    Make joblog displayed in RSS Messages window LIFO instead of FIFO or even better make it optional

    With the introduction of IBM Services more and more system administration tasks are moving to SQL scripting. In those SQL scripts CL commands are used using the syntax "CL:". Also the scalar function QSYS2.QCMDEXC is used. When running commands in...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

    Support the new BOOLEAN SQL data type in ACS Data Transfer (Upload to IBM i)

    Currently, data transfer (upload) fails if any field in the table is of type BOOLEAN.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

    ACS Integrated File System-Double click on file

    ACS Integrated File System does not allow you to double-click on a file and open it. RDi supports this, and so do the file manage apps included in PC operating systems. When you double-click on a file, it show perform the same functionality as cho...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

    ACS Run SQL Scripts needs a scalable dialog box (open file)

    Referring to the Run SQL Scripts application within ACS. Selecting File, Open, then PC file to open a saved SQL statement, the rendering of the Open dialog box is terrible. See attached image. One third of the dialog box is completely unused The c...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

    IBM i ACS Data transfer should use type GRAPHIC instead of CHAR

    We are using the "Data transfer" tool in IBM i Access Client Solutions to import data from Excel. In the dialogue "Create IBM i Database File" we use the "Start Scan" Button to determine the data layout of the spreadsheet which should be imported....
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

    Create LAN Console connection via ACS CLI options

    Allow ACS CLI to create a LAN Console connection configuration.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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