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IBM i Access Family

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ACS - Run Command

IBM has done a good job replacing "System i Navigator" with the "Access Client Solutions" product. However there are a few features that System i Navigator provided that are not present in the ACS product. One feature I would like to request that ...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Delivered

Change SQL window quit warning dialog buttons

When closing an SQL window, the warning prompts are inconsistent and confusing. All results currently open will be closed. Do you want to continue? Yes/No Save changes to Untitled? Yes/No/Cancel On the first question, No abandons the close action....
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Add property to ACS to limit access to the IFS path

Add the ability to set the ifs location of that particular ACS configuration and dont allow the users to go up from the path they started with. This would be done in the ACS properties file.
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

ACS 5250 Screen History Archive enhancement: include /PLUGIN to convert images to folder

Screenshots are an important part of audit evidence and defense for internal and compliance audits, as well as step by step procedural trainingThe ability to export images from screen history archive is already a very useful tool for supporting th...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

ACS RSS add new line for Ctrl+Shift+down arrow

In many edit tools duplicating the last line creates a new line in the file. ACS Run SQL Scripts (RSS) only appends the line text to the end of the file. When duplicating the last line always insert a new line character before appending the duplic...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Change SQL Examples to search for just tokens not sentences

My current ACS release is 1.1.8.7. When I search for an example and I use words (tokens) that are in the displayed text but not in the order of the displayed text the search won't match. Make the SQL Examples use search word tokens to match to all...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

ACS Change or add New Nav for i

I use ACS a lot. and I have connections to lots of partitions. It would be nice if the 'Navigator for i' could be changed to New Nav for i or Nav4i. If not can it be added to the 'Hardware Management Interface' (which could also be renamed). If so...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

ACS should have an option NOT to auto-populate the user id field

ACS should have an option NOT to auto-populate the user id field. In a shared environment like a terminal server, we don't want each user to see the previous user's "user profile" auto-populated in the user id field. It should be possible to leave...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

SSH key passphrases/agent support in ACS

ACS only supports passwords and keys without a passphrase. It would be ideal to have SSH keys that are protected by a passphrase, but ACS doesn't support that. Furthermore, even if passphrases are supported, supporting an agent would be even bette...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Access Client Solutions IFS timestamp format and timezone

Currently the Access Client Solutions IFS component shows file timestamps in a textual format, eg. "9 February 2022 at 16:30:29 GMT". There is no alignment and a varying width font is used. The timestamp is shown in local (PC client) timezone. 1. ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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