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IBM i Access Family

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"Block indentation by parentheses" in SQL formatter

With the more use of CTE, complex views, stored procedures and function - SQL formatting are getting more and more focus. SQL can have quite convoluted structures with many components having parameter or lists defined within parentheses. Think of ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

ACS Printer Output Favorites

Daily operations on the IBM i require our staff to move/delete/download spool files filtered on several output queues, Userdata and Job Information. Many of these filters are the same every day and it is very time consuming to change the informati...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Future consideration

Ability to download *IPDS spool files using ACS

Would like the ability to view / download spool files with *IPDS data stream using Access Client Solutions. This function was supported in the old IBM i Access for Windows. Use Case: Distribute spool files to customers
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Consolidate ACS 5250 Display and TAB Preferences into one Tabbed Dialog

Currently we have: Edit->Preferences -> Tab SetupEdit->Preferences -> Appearance->Tab Appearance The first changes the Active Tab propertiesThe second changes the inactive Tab propertiesPlease place them on the same dialog and use t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Save SQL Scripts results with Labels

Access Client Solutions- Run SQL Scripts will allow me to display the field names and the field labels in the results screen. But when I select the 'Save Results' option, the labels will not transfer into the saved document. Only the field names w...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Functionality already exists

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...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized f...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Submitted

iACS-IFS: When changing attribute allow checkbox to do all in the tree

I have a directory with numerous subdirectories and files in those subdirectories. I am trying to delete it but it errored out that some files/directories are flagged as read only.There is no way by using this tool to have it do all files in the s...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Planned for future release

Speed up IFS upload function in iACS

Version: 1.1.8.5I open up IFS for one lpar. I tell it I want to upload from my pc. I have a directory with three 3.8gb binary files which are part of an image catalog.I started uploading one with the iACS function.I gave it a 10% head start.Then I...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Include Emulator/pdfpdt directory in export and on import/create the directory if it does not exist.

Customers using PDTs for 5250 printer emulation sessions with a pdt must have the pdt file in Emulator/pdfpdt directory. However this is not included when exporting from a template configuration for deployment and so is missing on target import, c...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

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