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IBM i Access Family

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Support autECL in IBM i ACS (macro's)

A customer has written several hundreds of macro's for IBM i Access for Windows based on Automation Objects (autECL) which isn't supported by IBM i ACS. Based on the IBM case which states "Now, internally IBM i ACS does leverage HACL, but it doesn...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS Keypad

Personalizzazzione tastiera "ACS Keypad".E' possibile visualizzare una keypad nella parte bassa dello schermo, vorrei fosse possibile personalizzare i tasti che si possono visualizzare e anche la dimensione dei tasti. Use Case: Il motivo di questa...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

1371E support

The ACS emulator updated its 1371 host code page support to the 2016 versions of the mapping's in November 2017. This support uses the compatibility CJK ideographs and does not support the characters in plane 2 as no surrogates are supported by th...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS supports unicode display

we store unicode characters in AS400 DB2 but AS400 ACS can't display unicode characters, this makes users work inconvenient. Use Case: could you please help to modify ACS to support displaying unicode characters?
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Not under consideration

[ACS] SQL content assist don't preserve naming separator

New feature "Content Assist" in SQL script of ACS don't preserve *SYS namming separator. Use Case: Select *SYS for naming convention in jdbc settings.Type a library, then "/" then CTRL+SPACE.Select a file and ENTER."/" separator between library an...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Future consideration

ACS, Add Custom Border Settigns to JDBC Configuration

For ACS can we get the View --> Custom Border Settings to be by JDBC Configuration? Use Case: We set up Production and Test environment connections by JDBC Configuration.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

Proxy service for iACS operations via IBM i system

Provide a proxy service for all IBM iACS functionality like 5250, ssh, database access and management, IFS access and spool file management, so a remote user can connect to a secured IBM i system and from this connect to the target system - direct...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS "install_acs_log.txt" , ability to change save location of this file

I would Like for Access Client Solutions to have the option to choose where the "install_acs_log.txt" file saves off to. Use Case: When installing ACS, this file saves itself on default root. IT would be preferable to be able to select where this ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

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

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