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IBM i Access Family

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Make Remote Journaling visible on the source too

To my knowledge the remote journal config is only made visible in IBM i Access Client Solution Schemas on the target side by the added tab "Remote" on the journal Receiver.On the source side I have not yet found anything telling me that Remote jou...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

i access for web product 5722-XH2 using URL interfaces

in the database link you can create a new sql request (the http link is >>http://SYSTEM_IBMI:PORT/webaccess/iWADbRequests<<) but the output is not possibile in the xlsx format , but only in xls or csv or xml . So if you whant the expor...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS library list

JDBC Config needs some way to identify the library list being used by the app. If we choose "Use library list of server job" can the screen show that list so we will know what it consists of? If we don't want that list can there be some indicator ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

ACS Add warning message when trying to download or view a *IPDS print file.

As users get used to using ACS, they are downloading print files to their PC's. The majority are downloaded as PDF's. For *IPDS print files, these files download as .bin files and not as .pdf or .txt. .bin files are useless to anyone. The request ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

ACS 5250 emulator crashes on Mac in dark mode

After upgrading to MacOS Catalina I switched to the dark mode. After that I was unable to start any 5250 session. I got the message "Invalid session profile". Switching back to normal mode solved the problem.Logging:2019/10/24 9:19:15.292 #36 SEVE...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

I want to widen the printing width of ACS

English translation of original text:The print results of ACS's Java print service appear to be clogged with lines compared to the print results of iAW.According to our survey, we received similar inquiries from multiple customers, but no correcti...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Solution to input Chinese character in Win 10 to Power System I

Due to the limitation of IBM emulator as Client Access (PC, i Access for Web, ACS) running in Win 10 (which provide only Unicode Chinese Input Method), we cannot input those chinese character that contains more than 2 bytes through those Client Ac...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

IBM i Access Client Solutions - Config Output

Please consider functionality of downloading IACS System Configuration fields to Excel spreadsheet. Use Case: Asset management of live LPARs and their corresponding hardware, software and HMC/FSM/IVM managed devices.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Request for default value of INHERIT_PARAMETERS of PDT file, made available at ACS1.1.8.0

For printing related parameters not sent from IBM i, Reference the parameter of the job printed just before without referring to the definition of PDT, I want the default behavior of INHERIT_PARAMETERS = YES. Use Case: Even if the customer shifts ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS printer session with PDT doesn't print ex-shift-jis code.

The printer session of ACS doesn't print the code that isn't include in Shift-JIS.But the printer session of iAW can print the above code. Use Case: Same as printer session of iAW.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Is a defect