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IBM i Access Family

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SQL Details for Jobs Window - Please allow column heading clicks for sorting

Please add the functionality to click on the column heading on the SQL Details for Jobs window so we can sort by the column clicked on. This is allowed/provided for on the iNav screen. I'd like equal ability on this window for ACS. Use Case: I hav...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Add database monitor menu option to Run SQL Scripts

I would like to have the ability to start a database monitor directly from the ACS Run SQL Scripts window. We used to have that in iNavigator Use Case: When investigating queries it would be nice to be able to start a database monitor directly fro...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Run SQL Scripts - AutoSave

Please add some auto-save features to the Run SQL Scripts program. I can think of at least two options I would like to see: 1. Every x number of minutes.2. Any time an action is performed, e.g. after clicking Run and before actually running the st...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

SQL Formatting options

Please allow for the selection of formatting features on a per user basis. Right now when you format SQL it performs all actions of formatting. Use Case: In ACS RSS tool, Edit, SQL Formatter, configure. In the open dialog I would like the ability ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

Ability to re-login with different user in ACS Printer Output

I would like a menu option that will allow me to "sign out" and "sign back in" with different credentials in Access Client Solutions Printer Output. Use Case: We have users that have multiple different user ids that sign them into different enviro...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

IBM i ACS Datatransfer from IBM, EXCEL TabName

The naming of the tabname in EXCEL should also be possible like the behavior in IBM Client Access.CA: FilenameACS: Library/Filename>Sheet1 orACS: Myame>Sheet1 Use Case: With this option the import description in Microsoft ACCESS have not be ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Request ACS5250 emulator to enable ENTFLDATR on Bypass Field

The implementation of the IBM i ACS 5250 emulator has disabled a feature that exists within the Personal Communications based emulators. Specifically, it does not allowing highlighting a field that is a bypass field. This was done to follow the 54...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered
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SQL prompting in ACS

The new SQL tool in ACS make so much more sense than the old STRSQL - however, the prompt feature from the STRSQL where schemas, tables, columns can be selected from drop-down to construct SQL statements is really missing in the new ACS. Use Case:...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

ACS Console shortcut

The new Access client solutions does not allow a console shortcut to be created to the desktop. Can one be created. As we start installing the console software, this has been their one complaint. Thanks. Use Case: some users require convenience an...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS improvement request

Save the settings previously used in the runsql scripts open dialog box. Use Case: When using the run sql scripts from within ACS, we frequently open saved .sql files. The open dialog box that is presented does not save the prior settings. For exa...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered