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IBM i Access Family

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Crash Support/Recovery for VE Diagrams

Similar to Crash Recovery for SQL scripts, I would absolutely LOVE to have something similar for VE Diagrams. Too often , I keep VE Diagrams up of statements that I plan / want to review..but very frequently, my PC will reboot due to an update tha...
16 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

OLEDB error messages from ACS package V11.28.00 are not properly returned to Access VBA

We are using Access 2019 VBA to connect to an IBM i (S914) database via OLEDB. Previously, we used "IBM i Access for Windows 7.1.1500" (IAW OLEDB), and error messages were returned correctly to Access VBA. Now, we are testing with "IBM ACS Applica...
24 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Is a defect

Add option to change the command that uses the Access Client Solutions change password plugin(pwchange)

Add option to change (or change) the command that uses the Access Client Solutions change password plugin(pwchange) from CHGUSRPRF to CHGPWD or make it check the values so it meets the QPWDLVL and other systems values requirements for the password...
24 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Include Emulator/pdfpdt directory in export and on import/create the directory if it does not exist.

Customers using PDTs for 5250 printer emulation sessions with a pdt must have the pdt file in Emulator/pdfpdt directory. However this is not included when exporting from a template configuration for deployment and so is missing on target import, c...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Macro with value='attn' not working - consistantly

I spoke with Dwayne Bowers about this issue in Anaheim this spring at COMMON's PowerUp conference. In this macro example, I access our attention menu, make a selection, then enter in two values on the program called. There appears to be a race con...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS SQL Sessions Automatic Timeout

Enhancement Proposal: Automatic Timeout for Inactive ACS SQL Sessions Currently, users often leave ACS (Access Client Solutions) SQL sessions open after executing their queries. These idle sessions remain connected for extended periods, which may ...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Import/export 5250 emulator colors

Hello, I have downloaded a custom theme colors for 5250 emulator (https://draculatheme.com/acs). But when i want to import the file it doesn't work. Clicking on import button does nothing. Export button doesn't work either.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

IBM ACS Spool File Download hangs ay 99% if download started whilst the Spool File was Open

If you use ACS Spool File Download function on a Spool File that is at Status Open, and allow the download to get to 99%, the download hangs and will never completes, even if the spool file is later closed the spool file status changes to Ready
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

ACS SQL実行結果を多段表示に

Access Client Solutions の スキーマ > SQLスクリプトの実行 機能について。 複数のSQLスクリプトを同時に実行した際の、実行結果についてです。 現在の Ver. 1.1.9.7 では、それぞれの実行結果タブが1行で表示され、1行で表示しきれないタブは矢印ボタンで探す必要があります。 以前の Ver.1.1.8.8 では、それぞれの実行結果タブが多段で表示され、1行で表示しきれないタブは上下に全て表示されていました。そのため、探したい実行結果を探す操作が必...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Planned for future release

Change IBM ACS 5250 Console Verify to only check port 2301 when Encrypted Console Selected

The default behaviour of the HMC v10 code is to no longer allow unencrypted 5250 Console session via Port 2300, for compatibility reasons ACS still needs to offer this unencrypted connections so that cannot and should not be removed. However, the ...
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration