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IBM i Access Family

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Default 5250 Session Font

Hello, Please make the ACS - PCOMM SESSION font the default font for 5250 screens. I was frustrated with the ACS 5250 screens not using all the windows space of my sessions, but I change my font the PCOMM SESSION and now it perfect. Using all of w...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Non-Displayable Characters in IBM Access Client Solutions

Using 5250 emulation, our programming team regularly has to display files with Non-Displayable characters for various types of fields. These always used to display as Blocks instead of ? characters in the V7R1 (and all other previous versions) of ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

ODBC Driver for Alpine Linux

For creating docker containers, Alpine Linux is lightweight and secure. As we continue to modernize and containerize Node JS integration to the IBM i, this would be a great add to reduce container bloat.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS RSS allow for user controlled result row highlight

Currently, the results panel shows every other row or odd row with a grey background. Please allow for a feature to control when the break occurs to color the row background. There are times when I want to quickly review the results of a large set...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

iACS Printer Output-Option to not respect page range

IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS) Printer Output currently enforces the page range set on the spooled file on the server when viewing/downloading spooled files. We use the page range specifically for printing, often saving the spooled file for ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

PDF name in 'Printer Output' option

System: 5733XJ1 - IBM i Access Client SolutionsWe use 'Printer Output' option to download Spool Files into PDF format. At present the downloaded PDF name is automated. It will be nice if user can able to define the PDF name. We would like to inclu...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

[Bug Fix] RSS stops responding to File operations such as Ctrl+O (Open PC File), Ctrl+S, Save As etc.

The file is placed on cloud and here's how the file path looks C:\Users\JxxxDxxx\OneDrive - User000001\Documents\IBM\iAccessClient\Emulator As checked, the ' ' and ' - ' in the path are not the problem as the file opens well using drag-n-drop.
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

RSS Remember/reopen tabs

Hi, In addition to https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1576 (auto saving RSS tabs) it would be great if RSS remembered which tabs were open and would reopen them when restarting RSS. In addition, unnamed tabs should also be stored...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Some GUI enhancements for the Schema Browser in ACS

Some GUI enhancements for the Schema Browser. 1. If you open a table list, only some tables are shown. If you scroll down, the list will be extended and more tables become visible. The list could be directly extended in a background thread. 2. If ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Local Network Speed Test

This feature would allow ACS to help a user test the speed from their computer to the server. This could, potentially via the SSH protocol, write a file to the /tmp directory while logging transfer time, then download that same file after logging ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration