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IBM i Access Family

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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...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Request for enhancement of the ACS?IBM i Access Client Solutions ?

Even ACS in the same way as IBM i Access for Windows will provide a service pack of the application package,and please add the automatic update can function. Also If you are not planning to offer the service pack, please add the implementation of ...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Not under consideration

Customer Custom Modifications to Properties file

Please added a section to the AcsConfig.properties file with the label "Customer Custom Modifications" Use Case: The user would apply their customer specific changes(example: com.ibm.iaccess.AcsBaseDirectory={PRODUCTDIR}/{USER}) to this area of th...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Alternative open source packages in ACS

All the PASE packages are delivered by YUM - and it works great. The ACS interface even makes installation much easier. However not all open source is available in YUM. It will be rather useful to have a "one-stop-shop" for all kind of open source...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS - Add more attributes to the Printer output displays

The Printer Output display in ACS shows a limited number of fields. Please could you add the remaining fields. I find that I need to see fields like form type, user defined fields and the common fields used daily are missing. I have to go back to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

ACS - Schemas - provide for re-ordering of all columns in a table and views.

Please provide additional functionality to allow us to reorder any field/column on a table/view. As modernization happens or while developing new applications, new fields and keys are added and we do need to reorganize the sequence in which fields...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Customize columns in Schema > Libraries > Tables > Definition

the columns present in the current view are fixed it would be very useful to be able to configure: - The list and position of the columns - Add missing columns such as extended comments
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

add 3270 emulation to ACS client

We currently have a need for a java emulator 5250 which works well with the exception that we also need the same java client (ACS) to have the ability to connect 3270 to our mainframe. We would like to have 3270 added to ACS 5733 XJ1 Use Case: War...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS Task Pane Should be Customizeable

In the Java Version of ACS (Currently at v 1.1.7.0) the Task pains on the leftside of the main ACSLaunch window are not configurable nor are they moveable. This means they are laid out the way the last programmer who worked on it felt it was conve...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

STRPCCMD PAUSE(*NO) needs to work again

In IBM i Access (Client Access, PC5250) STRPCCMD PAUSE(*NO) used to work properly in that it would not pause and be input inhibited while a program is still running. That's what PAUSE(*YES) is for. Now PAUSE(*NO) works the same as PAUSE(*YES) when...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

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