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IBM i Access Family

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    ACS Toggle column name / label in "SQL run script"

    The output from a SQL query gives a nice grid, however some times you need the column names from the query and other times you need the column label. Today only the column name are shown. Use Case: In the grid popupmenu or in the menu it would be ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Delivered

    Run SQL statements using IBM I Source physical Files

    This is lost functionality2) More than colleague runs these scripts3) Using a source physical file on the IBM i allows you to keep the scripts in the schema that they belong to4) Backups are automatically handled5) No concerns/lost scripts when so...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

    iSeries ACS Run SQL Scripts - SQL SELECT - locking file

    Running SQL SELECTs in ACS "Run SQL Scripts" on the iSeries leaves locks on physical files which prevent the CL command CLRPFM from running over the file. Old fashioned RPG programs never lock files when reading from them or writing to them and on...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 9 Delivered

    ACS run SQL scripts: Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML etc.

    Now we got the context menu for result sets in ACS - Run SQL scripts. So now I have a new request: It will be nice if it was possible to directly export the result set show in in the grid to common used formats like Excel ( Open XML) , CSV, plain ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

    Integration between Schemas and Run SQL Scripts

    There should be better integration between the Schemas application and the Run SQL Scripts application.At minimum there should be shortcuts from Schemas to Run SQL Scripts and from Run SQL Scripts to Schemas.It would be nice to be able to right cl...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

    iACS-IFS: When changing attribute allow checkbox to do all in the tree

    I have a directory with numerous subdirectories and files in those subdirectories. I am trying to delete it but it errored out that some files/directories are flagged as read only.There is no way by using this tool to have it do all files in the s...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

    Add dialog to ACS for displaying "in use" information of stream files stored in the IFS

    Include the "in use" dialog into ACS and do not launch the "IBM Navigator for i" web application for displaying the locks of a given IFS stream file. Today "IBM Navigator for i" is launched to display the locks of an IFS stream file following thes...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

    ACS Run SQL script drop column limitation

    When using ACS Run SQL script dropping a column from a table is now not possible without having to use a work around. The suggested work around is not without risks because it also effects other jobs running on the system. Use Case: When running t...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Delivered

    ACS IFS component-Need Initial Load Filter to reduce files loaded per directory. Not InterActive Filter of loaded files list.

    We have IFS directories with 20,000-30,000 files in them. It takes forever to download the whole list of files in the directory, which must be loaded before we can use the interactive filter to narrow down what we are looking for.At times, my netw...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

    ACS Connection Management

    We run about 130 ibm i partitions and use of course ACS to manage them. So in ACS the list of systems to choose to connect to is quite long. I guess most IBM i customers do not have such a large number of partitions and are not in the need of mana...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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