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    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...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    ACS live editor

    Using many tools that make use of SFTP and related, it is possible to go and edit objects in the ifs in real time. Given the new features it would be interesting to implement this change on ACS as well, so that it would be more complete since now ...
    8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

    If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
    about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    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...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    ACS - HMC 5250 System Console - ability to set a default host code page and also set a default language/country on the "Welcome to Remote 5250 Console" screen.

    When using the HMC Probe utility to open a new ACS HMC 5250 system console, the host code page always defaults to 037 even if the default.hod session profile ("<documents>\IBM\iAccessClient\OpCon\Sessions\hmc\<hmc_hostname>\s\default.h...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Add Transfer Data Rate to ACS IFS file Upload/Download interface

    The addition of a Data rate transfer information is useful telemetry data for IBM i SysAdmins and Networking specialists. The addition of this calculation (in addition to the simple percentage complete) data would help to monitor, diagnose and res...
    6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    RUNRMTCMD equivalent command for IBM i Access Client Solutions.

    RUNRMTCMD was available in IBM i Access for Windows (iAWin) but not in IBM i Access Client Solutions (i ACS). Up until Service Pack (SP) SI57907, when RUNRMTCMD is issued, the desktop application would launch and user is able to view the applicati...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    Provide plug-in mechanism for iACS

    Provide a formal plug-in interface for iACS to allow developers to provide extensions to the existing functionality. Use Case: A plug-in interface to iACS would allow vendors, and open source developers, to provide additional functionality to vari...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Windows 11 Pro ARM support with 64bit ODBC drivers so PowerBI Desktop and Excel can pull data from IBM I DB2. For all Mac M(x) ARM systems. Support for modern tooling

    Power BI does not run on Mac Arm, but does in Parallels with Windows ARM. IBM 32bit drivers will install in Windows ARM, but 64bit will not. All modern tooling is requiring 64bit support. This kills MAC as a dev platform for IBM I with many modern...
    5 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

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