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IBM i Access Family

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    Improvement of 5250 emulation

    When you start a 5250 emulation sesion you get a tab saying " A - sysname'. If you start another sesion you get "B- sysname". I would like to be able to change this session text by opening a text window with a rigth mouse click on the tab. Use Cas...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    TN5250 and IBM i Access for Web support for SAML Authentication

    System: IBM i Access for WebActor: Web users of IBM i Applications IBM i Access for Web is a Websphere application that provides 5250 web emulation for IBM i hosted applications. It already provides support (via Websphere) for Kerberos SSO, but it...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Prove an option on ACS RUNSQL Scripts output to avoid hex-view of columns with CCSID 65535

    When viewing results with ACS RUNSQL Scripts, if a column's CCSID attribute is binary or "FOR BIT DATA" or CCSID 65535, then the resulting data is "unfolded" (shown as hexadecimal). I would like an option to turn that off. While this capability to...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

    Allow for a user specific version of AcsConfig.properties in the users home directory

    Allow for a user specific version of AcsConfig.properties in the users home directory that will be considered before the versions in the iacs directory and the jar file. This will allow users to have their own properties that will not be overwritt...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    ACS 5250 Plugin screen history allow save as images

    The screen history seems like a good idea but once you attempt to copy the history image you only get textual values from the screen. We would want to use the actual image of the screen. Please provide the ability to change the screen history so t...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    ACS Printing Issue about Chinese UDC, Missing Paper Size and Printing Width

    Issue: ACS is missing printing paper size - US Standard Fanfold in Win10. Based on the testing done with IBM supporting team, we believed it is not the issue about Windows or the Printer driver, since other applications such as Office Word can fin...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    STRPCCMD PAUSE(*NO) switch should NOT pause emulator session

    Using the STRPCCMD with the switch PAUSE(*NO) should not pause the emulator session for GUI-applications. When launching a Windows GUI-application, users should still be able to function inside the emulator session without restriction. ***WORKAROU...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Access Client Solutions - OpenSource Packages Management , IBM should provide standard http or https REPO for yum update

    Access Client Solutions - OpenSource Packages Management , IBM should provide standard http or https REPO for yum update, NOT ftp site. Use Case: Server or client should not direct access internet for package update even through have firewall. We ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Request for improvement of space padding when transferring data in UTF16LE

    Please refer to AAA.jpg for the data on the host side. If you specify text format (UTF16LE) when transferring this data and receive it, the number of blank characters in the received text will change. (See AAA_UTF16LE.txt) This phenomenon does not...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    ACS Data Transfer upload should allow *UPDADD

    ACS Data Transfer "To IBM i" only allows add or replace. There's no way to update existing rows. This is a very common task, where data needs to inserted or updated if it already exists.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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