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IBM i Access Family

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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...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

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 should reestablish connection to session when comminication is lost.

ACS is extremely sensitive when the communication is lost. Every time this happens a new session is started. Instead of this behaviour I would like that the connection is established to the original session. The problem happens for example when th...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 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

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

ACS /PLUGIN=cfg - fast path for HMC ?

Hello, would it be possible to add in ACS /PLUGIN=cfg /system a parameter to configure fast path for HMCConsole ? (eqquiv of Advanced in ACS) - at least to 'managed system' level. That would be a great help ;) Thanks for consideration.
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 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 Cursor Hover Row Highlighting in ACS RUNSQL resultSet

I would like to suggest an enhancement to improve data review and usability within result sets. When a result set is displayed in ACS RUNSQL, it would be highly beneficial to introduce a cursor hover highlight feature. This functionality would: 1....
11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future 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