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IBM i Access Family

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Provide a Tile Session Window option in IBM ACS for IBM i

Provide a way to do a so called Tile arrangement of the 5250 session windows in ACS. Use Case: I support over a dozen remote Power systems with IBM i installed. Using ACS I open green-screens to those session and have an app open and running. I wa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add command-line options for running Data Transfers in BAT files or add Edit option in context menu of DTFX/DTTX files

Our users have used Data Transfer for many years. They have used BAT files to run requests that belong together. With IBM i Access for Windows and its predecessors, these have run uninterrupted - the Data Transfer GUI did not appear, and there was...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 7 Not under consideration

When Automatic Resize is turned on for 5250 sessions with multiple tabs, make each tab selected resize the window as needed.

Automatic resize is turned on for a 5250 session with multiple tabs. The first tab displays a 27x132 screen and the window resizes. When the second tab is selected, the window does not resize if that is a 24x80 screen so there is lots of blank spa...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Update to ACS install

When performing an ACS uninstall we would like to have the option to suppress the attached message to user.
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Not under consideration

Password manager integration in ACS

It would be great to have an integration where I could store all my passwords in for example 1Password and easily populate user id and password in ACS from there.
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Future consideration

Allow path to hod files to be specified so open other will start in the required directory.

I have quite a few systems that I connect to using 5250 sessions and I use the tabbed option. When I click the + sign to start a new tab, which I have set to Start Other, the directory shown is where the last session was started from which commonl...
9 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS - Add feature to run scripts from a HLL.

As part of modernization and as a replacement for RUNQRY, this change would be beneficial. The ACS team has been making some great stuff available. Taking that to the next step... I have a number of applications that would benefit from this featur...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add a Save Results As... option to the File or Tools menu.

Having to launch the 1980's File Transfer Program to pull down data is embarrassing. When I have a resultset in the lower pane, I should be able to simply save that resultset as XLSX or CSV to my local PC.
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Add information indicating that the session is open with ACS

Many companies are slowly converting video sessions from Client Access to ACS. In order to monitor the progress of these upgrades it would be useful to have an SQL service that lists the video devices, which also reports a field indicating that th...
3 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

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