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IBM i Access Family

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    IBM ACS (Access Client Solutions) - Retain Settings in Visual Explain

    In ACS 1.1.9.7, you can zoom in on the right hand pane of Visual Explain. Wen you close the window, it does NOT retain your zoom settings. Please enable this to to retain your zoom settings. Also, it is not intuitive that you even can zoom, maybe ...
    10 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

    Faster option to change JDBC configuration

    Possibility to switch from one JDBC configuration to another faster, without having to go through the current menus: more direct menus Use Case: To test the effects of different JDBC configurations on SQL queries
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    Add Network > Servers >TCP/IP servers to ACS

    Add a new network section to ACS and add Network > Servers TCP/IP server Use Case: We would like to have the ability to start and stop TCP/IP servers without having to go into navigator for the web. This is one of the couple of features that we...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    Access Client Solutions TN5250 emulator: Four sessions in a 2x2 grid like the old IBM 3290 display (1982)

    A user on IBM i OSS asked if it was possible to have four sessions to tab between in the IBM i Access Client Solutions 5250 emulator in a 2x2 grid to make it easier to do terminal work.It's true that it's easier to work in green-screen land with f...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    ACS and Phone Calls via Teams

    The ability to call a stored phone number in a PF via MS Teams from a 5250 Screen with a mouse click. Like E-Mail Addresses or Webpages. Use Case: Many customers has tables in the DB PF with their customer address data, like name, street, town, E-...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

    acs 5250 session border customizable like ACS Run SQL Scripts Border

    Starting with running 5250 emulations session I select> Communications> Configure> Preferences. On this panel there is a radio button to >>SHOW BORDER. When I select that I can display a border around the 5250 window, but I cannot f...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Text highlighting in ACS 5250 Emulator

    It would be great to have an option in ACS to highlight a specific string if it appears anywhere on the screen. Something like CTRL-F (find) feature in Chrome. Use Case: When scrolling through many screens of data in the ACS 5250 emulator and look...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

    ACS - Run SQL Scripts - Allow for viewing of column data type and column comments in results window

    When you run a select * from table command in Run SQL Scripts it will output the raw data and columns. Many more advanced SQL editors show you the following additional data: 1. Column data type (both by hovering over column) and below the column (...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Feature Request ACS

    We would like to prevent endusers from modifiing the sessions names. In the previous version 7.1, we were able to deploy the policy (registry) to restrict this change. However in the new version it appears the registry keys no longer works. CHKEY_...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

    Update XH2 to adapt to different screen sizes

    Currently, Access for Web has 2 instance types. mobile and normal. Mobile is tailored for mobile devices (phones, tablets. etc), while the normal one is supposed to be used by normal browsers running a PCs.The problem lies in that the HTML/CSS com...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

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