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IBM i Access Family

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allow for parameters in the ACS .hod file for connecting to 5250 console

a user has to navigate 9 screens to get signed on to the system console. I would like to have parms in the .hod file for the console session to circumvent these screens.
5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

ACS IFS Explorer - TreeSize-like functionality.

I can't seem to find a good and intuitive tool to get an overview of the IFS. It would be nice to able to look at eg. the root folder and see for each folder how many files/folders/bytes are in that folder.Something like TreeSize for Windows' expl...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Add the ability to execute a custom AcsConfig.properties in a specific folder when calling acsbundle.jar

I have to deploy ACS in a customer Citrix environnement, with different categories of user and with specific needs (limited access to IFS folders, no SQL client connections for just one category, ...).My intent would be to create as many AcsConfig...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Make installing Visual Explain optional

When installing IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) the option is given to skip the installation of several components. Run SQL Scripts (RSS) always has Visual Explain included. I would like to see this treated similar as the System Debugger which...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Dark Mode For Run SQL Scripts

I would like to be given a dark mode or the ability to control colors for Run SQL Scripts. Between the dark screen of the emulator and dark mode of RDI, it would be awesome to also have a dark theme for Run SQL Scripts. RDI gives the option to app...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Not under consideration

Insert scripts from custom examples

Hello, after installing version 1.1.9.7, I can't insert my custom scripts; In the previous version there was a button that did that. Is there a new option to do so? Thanks in advance
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Functionality already exists

iACS - HOD

we have done a network installation of iACS inside our IFS with restricted access for functions like "run SQL-Scripts". Our Users can only see the 5250-Emulator and their SPLFs. We have entered the restrictions inside the AcsConfig.properties-file...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Access Client Solutions (ACS) - Make it possible to remotely deploy and manage ACS

In our enterprise (and many others) the software on our users' workstations needs to be managed centrally using tools such as InTune, SCCM, etc. Currently there isn't a supported way of doing this for ACS. This is becoming a serious issue/challeng...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

ACS - Database Table Functions

Allow me to edit the contents of a table from the ACS Database context. I can View, Clear, Copy, Initialize and Reorganize Data but not Edit the content. Use Case: This option is heavily used by our database administrators in order to view and man...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Save Results Sets to the IFS

Enable the 'Save Results' feature of Run SQL Scripts to save the output to the IFS of the connected server. This enables data extracted to be kept on the originating server e.g. for data security purposes and for environments where users are not a...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

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