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IBM i Access Family

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Single Sign on

we have a third party single signon for most of our windows apps, we would like to be able to have single signon also for IBM i , we currently can get the credentials to go, with no emulation or get the emulation to a signon screen. we cannot pass...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add checkbox for "replace" when saving newly updated example

if I update an "example" i previously created, I cannot save as a new example since it already exists. A replace check box would allow us to save an updated copy. i currently have to use <file><open> the example and then edit and resav...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

ACS Double byte character printing issue.

As users in our Asia Pacific locations are migrating from Client Access to ACS - they have noticed that when printing spool files from ACS (drag and drop - or downloading) some of the double byte characters are not showing up correctly. This reque...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Access Client Solution - /PLUGIN/cldownload option to use Field column description text instead of column heading text

with column heading you get a lot of spaces between the words which you wouldn't get from field text description The results of using column heading looks like this:- Cust address reserve 5 instead of Cust address reserve 5
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need for ACS IFS to prompt for security on every file

The ACS IFS interface continually prompts for every file upload or download, yet I can traverse the directory structure without having to provide security every time. Please change the ACS IFS interface to prompt for security once if more than one...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Allow Plug-ins for ACS RunSQL Scripts

RunSQL Scripts within ACS is good, but it would be nice if we could integrate our SQL iQuery Script tool into ACS RUNSQL Scripts so that our scripts could be run from within it. To do this, we need to be able to add a plug in to ACS. To add a plug...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Pressing Alt+key to execute macro sets focus to File in the Tools line

After opgrading to 1.1.7.1 an irritating thing has started when executing macros. I have defined macros to be executed when pressing ALT+F1, ALT+F2 etc but now it executes the macro and then focus is at the "File" option in the Tools line so when ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Is a defect

Enhance ACS ENPTUI GUI Window Board to be graphical

Enhance the so-called GUI Border for 5250 windows (both DDS and DSM) so that they are rendered using actual drawn borders, instead of textual characters that were embedded to support fixed-dimension displays; displays that no longer exist. Use Cas...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

iACS download source / name

The IBM iACS download source URL (https://mrs-ux.mrs-prod-7d4bdc08e7ddc90fa89b373d95c240eb-0000.us-south.containers.appdomain.cloud/marketing/iwm/platform/mrs/assets/DownloadList?source=swg-ia&lang=en_US) is not easy to understand and verify f...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

All sessions are stopped at once

Some session can start at once by batch files on ACS.But all session are not ended at once. Use Case: iAW can handle batch session to start and stop at once. But ACS can only start batch session.ACS can't stop batch session. We want to stop all se...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration