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IBM i Access Family

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Add shortcut buttons/menu options

When using IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) 5250 emulation I am able to switch to almost every other option of ACS using the Actions menu oprion. I am also able to add action buttons to the icons menu bar. The options I am using the most freque...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Pipe Delimiter Support for ACS Data Transfer

The Data transfer supports different formats, like .txt, .csv, etc. Add the pipe delimiter (|) which is missing, it is quite popular. It could be ".psv" file type. Use Case: Add "Pile Delimiter" (|) to the output client file options, on the Data T...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

ACS RSS save to Source Physical File remove hex 25

When saving to an IBM source Physical file (PF-SRC) DO NOT save with X'25' line endings. It makes it impossible to use script elsewhere plus there is no need for line endings in PF-SRC. If you need line ends in ACS RSS tool then add then for PF-SR...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Copy Records in ACS

It whould be very cool, if we could copy record from a file in schema-view in ACS. So, when you click right on an existing record, we want so choose "copy". Then a new window should open and shows all the existing columns in die file, filled with...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

Add minify support to SQL formatter.

Add minify support to SQL formatter. Use Case: Please see web tool http://poorsql.com/, for an idea of what I mean.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Run/Check syntax and Formater should complain about same issues.

Run/Check syntax and Formater should complain about same issues. This section of code is flagged differently by RUn/Check Syntax than by Formatter. Use Case: This statement runs but fails the formatter.values case 'B' when'B'then-1 else 1 end This...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Modify AcsConfig.properties to add new Sheet in existing XLSX

when i transfert a data base file to xlsx on ibm i , the first sheet is replaced . I want to add new sheet to existing XLSX . Use Case: java -Dcom.ibm.iaccess.dataxfer.SheetId=NEWSHEET -jar /SFIOUTILS/IAC/acsbundle.jar /PLUGIN=cldownload /SYSTEM=L...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

ACS should allow SQL Examples to support Folders in Custom view

We are running ACS 1.1.8.3 and like the feature of SQLCustomExamples. I would like to suggest that it support a directory listing showing files and folders. Should you have a large number of examples ACS tries to parse them all and put them into a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

ACS Printer Output add an option to specify a different encoding when downloading as text (.txt).

Access for Windows downloads spool files in different encoding than ACS. ACS only produces UTF-8 Use Case: Download spool file reports for relay to vendor. Vendor does not support UTF-8 with current interface.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Future consideration

Shorten the time in RSS before the message "communication link failure. (Operation timed out)" is shown.

When using IBM i Access Client Solutions - Run SQL Scripts (RSS), I think nearly all of us did try to run an SQL request while the connection was lost due to the fact that the connection was lost with the system due to the operation time out.I hav...
10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration