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IBM i Access Family

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Provide Cursor Hover Row Highlighting in ACS RUNSQL resultSet

I would like to suggest an enhancement to improve data review and usability within result sets. When a result set is displayed in ACS RUNSQL, it would be highly beneficial to introduce a cursor hover highlight feature. This functionality would: 1....
6 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

ACS > run sql scripts allow reconnect to change profile

In ACS > run sql scripts > reconnect > default to current user but, allow the user profile to be changed for the connection. This will help with testing out different sql scripts with different profiles.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

change *ALLOBJ authority needed to drop columns using the ACS schemas editing interface

When you change a table (drop a column) through the ACS grapical interface you need *ALLOBJ to do so.The reason is that ACS adds and removes an autoreply (needing *ALLOBJ) to handle the inquiry message to confirm the drop (data loss) CPA32B2.When ...
4 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

ACS Run SQL script and prompting for statement variables. Support predefined and default values.

In ACS version 1.1.9.2 support for prompting statement variables with the use of ? or a variable name starting with : was introduced. Ref: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-75-tr2-enhancements This is great. Prompting for a statement v...
2 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Future consideration

reconnect buttom in RSS of ACS

Workaround for lost connection issue
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Functionality already exists

ACS allow paste into multiple windows and allow "multi execution across selected open emulation sessions.

we manage many LPARs, it would be very useful to execute a command against either all or selected LPARs.this would be similar to what other emulation programs call, Multi-execution "Write once, execute everywhere: this tool allows you to execute t...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

iACS: Rewrite the documentation for IBM i Access Client Solutions

There is much that is missing from this documentation. Including, but not limited to: How to limit users access to some of the functions by using server configuration such as "Function Usage" available in IBM Navigator for i. Sure there are ways o...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Add a search zone in the ACS Session Manager

In the IBM ACS session manager, would it be possible to add a search box where you could enter the first few letters of the session name and only sessions starting with these letters would be displayed in the session list? Thank you
about 1 month ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Not under consideration

Support the new BOOLEAN SQL data type in ACS Data Transfer (Upload to IBM i)

Currently, data transfer (upload) fails if any field in the table is of type BOOLEAN.
6 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration

Add an option for an SSL trusted store in odbc.ini for use with the IBM i Access ODBC Driver

We have an issue using SSL with the IBM i Access ODBC driver and IBM App Connect Enterprise 12. You can read about it in case: TS015080103 and TS014801648. We want to use an option to add the CA certificates to the data source in odbc.ini, somethi...
8 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 8 Future consideration