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IBM i Access Family

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ACS: Option to show description next to System

When we add a new system most of us use the IP address, not the FQDN or hostname on our DNS or hosts table, and the real system name is on the description. It would be great to have the option to show the description next to the system name to imp...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

ODBC Driver for Alpine Linux

For creating docker containers, Alpine Linux is lightweight and secure. As we continue to modernize and containerize Node JS integration to the IBM i, this would be a great add to reduce container bloat.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

RSS Remember/reopen tabs

Hi, In addition to https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1576 (auto saving RSS tabs) it would be great if RSS remembered which tabs were open and would reopen them when restarting RSS. In addition, unnamed tabs should also be stored...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

ACS Printing Issue about Chinese UDC, Missing Paper Size and Printing Width

Issue: ACS is missing printing paper size - US Standard Fanfold in Win10. Based on the testing done with IBM supporting team, we believed it is not the issue about Windows or the Printer driver, since other applications such as Office Word can fin...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

IBM i ACS Integrated File System to include TEXT attribute

It would be nice to see the TEXT attribute beside directories and stream files. The TEXT attribute can be seen on the green-screen WRKLNK. While we try to name folders and files with meaningful names, it's not always possible. Vendors install fold...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

ACS Data Transfer upload should allow *UPDADD

ACS Data Transfer "To IBM i" only allows add or replace. There's no way to update existing rows. This is a very common task, where data needs to inserted or updated if it already exists.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Add Desktop Directory setting for desktop copy/save functions with OneDrive desktop locations

With OneDrive Desktop enabled, the default desktop is no longer 'C:\Users\userid\Desktop’ For example, the new desktop location is now “C:\Users\userid\OneDrive\Desktop\” Now the "Copy to Desktop" and 'Download to Desktop' options within iACS save...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Password change using system groups

A number of our customers have users that have different passwords based on the system(s) they use. This would allow the users to sync their passwords by the system purpose they use for the systems. Better security might possibly be obtained by re...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future 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...
almost 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration