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IBM i Access Family

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Make Access Client Solutions easier to distribute

Currently all ACS installs are manual at deployment of a user's PC and manual updates as needed if the user reports any issues and we notice they are on an older version. We have tried to package ACS into an EXE file that could be deployed through...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 13 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 ...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Journal Viewer-View Data Details-Add Prev/Next buttons

I'd like a Previous and Next button on the Journal Viewr...View Data Details window so I can roll thru the entries one after another and follow the trail of the entries and not have to right click on each one. Use Case: I am needing to look at the...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

ACS 5250 Screen History enhancement: Include timestamp above/below image

Currently on version 1.1.8.8 Please enhance to include Windows timestamp data with each screen shot. When using "Save screens as images" function, allow user to select either or both of the following options:1) prefix the image file name with time...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

ACS Schema Journal chain information missing

Currently ACS Schema journal/journalreceivers information is missing. In iNav the GUI did provide information if a journal had gaps in the journalreceiver chain. The command WRKJRNA and F15=Work with Receiver Directory does provide a number. This ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Have CTRL-S remember last selections like CTRL-O does

Have CTRL-S remember last selections like CTRL-O does. If I want a different save destination, I can pick it from the menu or toolbar. Use Case: Open ACS - Run SQL Scripts, edit something, CTRL+S. You are asked what type of storage source (PC, IFS...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

ACS IFS Send function to include System ASP free space check

The ACS Ingrated File System - Send function creates a temporary QIFS* library in ASP1 under the covers as part of the send process. This is fine as long as the the IFS object(s) being sent are not larger than the spare space in ASP1. The size of ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

ACS Run SQL Scripts insert field names into statement from the results Columns screen

Create and easier way to add fields into SQL statement by selecting check boxes after the results have been returned. I believe this would be a nice efficiency gain. Use Case: Often times I find that when we don't know the data within a database f...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

IBM i ACS Datatransfer from IBM, EXCEL TabName

The naming of the tabname in EXCEL should also be possible like the behavior in IBM Client Access.CA: FilenameACS: Library/Filename>Sheet1 orACS: Myame>Sheet1 Use Case: With this option the import description in Microsoft ACCESS have not be ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered