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IBM i Access Family

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iAccess for web 5250 session code page (cy)

Why no Host Code page 1377, 1200, 1208,.. in IBM i Access for Web Use Case: Try to use IBM i Access for Web.Found that no 1377, 1200, 1208,.. IBM first line support saying that it matches what CCSID supported by QSH environment in V7R2 Information...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2 (13448) only, please include support surrogates (more than 2 byets over 2xxxx)

According to our development ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2(13488) only, that is Basic Multilingual Plan (BMP), and does NOT includesupport for surrogates. Both UCS-2 (13488) and UTF-16 (1200) are composed of 2 bytes only.So 2XXXX is no...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Make DDMF objects appear in the schema views

ALL objects of the system type *FILE should appear in the schema view so that I may be able to rename the object. Use Case: I have DDMF objects that I want to replace with a three part named object alias. BUT it the name I choose is the same as th...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Allow changes in ACS setup to retrieve and display existing setup values

We have more than 300 users at this location and several more at other facilities. An administration type function would be appreciated where the setup can be stored at a central point for each device. Any changes would be on hand and could then b...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Provide support for 27x132 5250 system console on HMC managed partitions

Provide support for 27x132 5250 system console on HMC managed partitions. Use Case: End users are unable to sign on to our system console because their default application requires that the 5250 device support a 27x132 display. We are forced to us...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Language converting when press 'space bar'

Language convertion after pressing 'space bar' on ACS. Use Case: We need 'space bar' just for use 'spacing' without input language conversion.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Refinements required to ACS print file downloads

When using Printer Output in ACS, depending on what we do, some users download print files as PDF and others as a .txt file. The problem we have is that the selection is not stored for the next time. Use Case: When downloading print files to a PC ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Add customization in ACS print screen settings

We would like to see the ACS client Print Screen settings to have the option to select fonts, manipulate fonts (bold, underline, etc), and set LPI and CPI, like was available in Client Access for Windows.Ideally, I would like to see 2 options: 1) ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

RSS Messages Area - Need Copy/Paste formatted

I need the RSS message/log area window Ctrl-A... Copy... function to copy all text including formatting. It doesn't. I can't paste it into Notepad into a readable format like it is in the Messages/Log area window. Use Case: I need the messages are...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Printing from IBM i Access Client Solutions

Software: IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS)Actor: User wants same printing behavior as IBM i Access for Windows (CA/400) Customer is using Printing session from CA/400 for printing *SCS spool files to Epson dot matrix printer. Since CA/400 does ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration