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IBM i Access Family

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Do not allow end-user to control "trusted" signers

When connecting the first time to a new system with IBM i Access Solutions in SSL mode, the client allows the end user to accept the root/intermediate certificate which introduces a secrurity risk (MITM attack). The client should only use pre-load...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

ACS Run SQL Column Heading (correction for RFE#91465)

RFE#91465 does not what we want. I created a pdf file to describe what we want. Please read attached file Use Case: RFE#91465 does not what we want. I created a pdf file to describe what we want. Please read attached file
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

add IncludeComps in iAccess

Currently you can only specify options to exclude in IBM i ACS usingcom.ibm.iaccess.ExcludeComps=...... As IBM is providing more and more options these would be automatically be made available once a client updates the version (like latest enhance...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Access Client Solutions - Hot spot - no message when file not found

If you have a screen with a hotspot and the file does not exist then you don't get a message that the file does not exist. For example then you click on the hotspot:FILE://myServer/drawing.pdf and drawing.pdf does not exist on myServer you are not...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS Provide ability to specify result tab "Name/Title" for each SQL Script SELECT statement

Using the Run SQL Scripts function of i Access Client Solutions, it is possible to create very complex SQL Select statements. When running a script with several SELECT statements a separate result tab is created for each SELECT statement. The name...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Fix QZRCSRVS for iConsole Dashboard

Create a modification to QZRCSRVS so that excessive logging and CPU are not used when the Operations Dashboard is being displayed. So many log entries are created when the Dashboard is up that constant wrapping occurs. In addition, there is a cons...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Make "Check for updates" and API

The current method of checking for a i Access Client update can only be executed from the Main "Menu" in an "interactive" mode. It would be great to have an "API" that could be executed in "batch" on the iSeries so that we could send the appropria...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered
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Enhance the interface for Run SQL Script in IBM i ACS

I would like to see the Run SQL Script interface support "." dot prompting for columns with descriptions, types and length. For example when typing in a select statement the user would use an alias such as:"Select a.column from mytable a"Once the ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Delivered

ODBC driver for MAC Os in iAccess Client Solution

Various customers ask us for the availibility of a ODBC driver to connect to Ibm i from a MacOs environment. Use Case: A top or directional user who use MacOs on their laptop, with Microsoft Office Excel pivot who need to be updated from an Ibm i ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

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 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered