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IBM i Access Family

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Better error details for iACS

The i Access Client Solutions product should give the user intelligible error messages. As is, it's giving useless error messages and IBM support has to review logs to determine the cause of the problem. Use Case: We were setting up a new PC. We t...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

.bat Data Transfer logging

I am doing a data transfer request through a .bat file. It is recording some financial data so I was required to write logs whenever the transfer is run. I was able to get the transfer to work fine, but adding in the logging seams to have broken i...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

add print output to 5250 session in ACS

Add print out put to 5250 session or a button that start print out put for the open session Use Case: to download a spool file you need to Select System and then open printer output. would like to be able to press a button on the tool bar that wil...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Security for i Access Client Solutions

We need an option to setup the minimum Version of iAccess client Solutions (iACS) which is allowed to connect to a system i LPAR. Additional we need to be able to restrict some functions / modules of iACS to be executed on a system i LPAR for defa...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Access Client Solution - Data Transfer Request - Detailed error message

When a data transfer request is rejected by an Exit Point security program, a dialog is presented which only states, "The function did not complete successfully." I'm requesting information to help determine why the function did not complete--spec...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

IBM i Access for Windows ODBC driver has dependency on C++ 2005 library

NB - Don't know if product is right as this should refer to"IBM i Access for Windows ODBC driver "and I couldn't find it in the list and couldn't move on without having something in the list! Microsoft have indicated that they have withdrawn suppo...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

iAccess: Allow keystroke buffering to be turned off

In some cases, we need to turn off keystroke buffering. I believe this was a feature in the old 5250 emulation software. Use Case: Some users get themselves in trouble by hitting keys while the system is running a job. Then when the system returns...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Access Client Solution - Data Transfer Browse Enhancement

In the "older" Client Access Transfer from, once you selected browse to select a DB2 file, you could right click the file, select properties, and get the file name. This was very useful to the end user when developing a transfer to find their data...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Need ACS bundle.jar to run under java 11 on IBM i

When running an export of data using the CLdownload and setting the job level to use Java 11. The program fails. I am running the following command. Type command, press Enter. Run this first: CHGENVVAR ENVVAR(JAVA_HOME) VALUE('/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdD...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Access Client Solutions Printer Output Security

Access Client SolutionsThe option to view the printer output was added (which is a great addition) but the user has the ability to filter and view other users output. This may have information that shouldn't be seen by others. Use Case: I would li...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered