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IBM i Access Family

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Centralized Location for cacert file for IBM ACS

IBM Access Client Solutions Currently, everytime a new Certificate Authority used on the IBM i, Users get a Pop-up asking to Accept the CA. To ease confusion, it would be nice to have a similar capability as in IBM System i Access where the Certif...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS - provide option when defining .hod to allow optional loading into common screen or its own detached group tabs

For those of us who need to work with multiple systems/LPARs, starting 5250 sessions either loads into 1 screen or all are loaded into separate screens grouped by the system being logged in to? Use Case: I have defined multiple batch sessions. Eac...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS OCT 2017 - Add a remove button on Preferences...Changing Passwords window

In ACS Oct 2017 verision. Preferences...Passwords tab...Changing IBM I Passwords.There's a change button.I need a REMOVE button to delete the entry.I accidentally added a connections with the wrong userid and now I can't get rid of the entry. Use ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

ACS File Transfer with No Line Ending Characters

Please add an option in the advanced File Details under format options to exclude line endings from the file being downloaded. Use Case: There are files created by our core software system that we need to download as text files that already have t...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

ACS - Toggle On/Off Column Separators on Print Screens

Please add a check box in Print Screen Setup that allows us to turn off the column separators when doing a print screen. We need to have them visible on the screen, but when we do a screen print, they make the printout very hard to read. This chec...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 12 Delivered

add ReadmeACSsp.txt to ACS update FTP site

for IBM ACS, when the 5733XJ1 package is updated and the FTP site references the new version, please add the ReadmeACSsp.txt from the zip file's "documentation" directory. ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/as400/products/clientaccess/solutions/updates/ Use...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

ACS allow data import as option on right click of a table

System i Navigator allowed data> import as an option on right click of a table without having to create an FDF. Use Case: We get .txt files from outside vendors in a fixed format once a quarter. We used to be able to import them directly throug...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Need enhancements or modifications in i ACS Session Manager

We want different options available for different level of users in I ACS. We want to limit certain options in i ACS. IBM i Access Client Solutions - Session Manageracsbundle file. Use Case: 1) We need to be able to create a configuration that hid...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

ACS install crashes during the installation in Windows

During installation of the latest version of ACS we encountered a crash during the installation in Windows.I investigated the install_acs_32_allusers.js and install_acs_32.js scripts and discovered the error to have the same reason. In install_acs...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

In the Run SQL Scripts tool, when using "library.table" naming convention, double clicking on the library name should only select the library name and not the whole "library.table" string

This is how it works with "library/table". If you double-click on "library" the word "library" will be highlighted. But if you are using "library.table" and double-click on "library" it will highlight the entire string. It's cumbersome and inconsi...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered