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Access Client Solutions - Add IFS selection in Right-Click Actions Menu

It would be very useful to include the Integrated File System explorer as an option on the menu when you right click on a session and select Actions. This would work exactly like it does for the Printer Output menu option, it would bring up the IF...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

Allow write on Remote Image Catalog

Actually we can share Optical Image Catalog using NFS from one IBM i or even any other server (with restrictions) to an IBM i LPAR, but with read-only attributes. It would be a great idea to share this library in Read-Write mode Use Case: With thi...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Modify USB Media Formatting to allow objects larger than 4GB

Many HMC fixes are now greater than 4GB and so can not be installed on a Physical HMC via USB removal media. This is because the HMC format removal media command uses the FAT32 format which is limited at the 4GB file size. Please modify the USB M...
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

Access Client Solutions - Allow Variables in Print Screen Header / Footer

Allow variables &host, &user, &usern, etc. for printing in the Header / Footer of a print screen, similar to the way they are available in Watermark setup. Use Case: We have many users that perform software testing, and as a part of th...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

WebQuery color for subtotal line

Configure a subtotal line in another color is not possible in Info-Assist.Manual edit of fex-file with the following statement will work:TYPE=SUBTOTAL, SIZE=9, STYLE=BOLD, COLOR=RED, $ It would be very useful if this can be done in Info-Assist usi...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 Web Query 3 Delivered

Change select next statement feature to end at next semi-colon

The older iNavigator version of the Run SQL Scripts tool used to stop the highlight next statement feature at the next found semi-colon. Now FOR SOME REASON some one got the idea this was not reasonable and now the ACS Run SQL Scripts only stops w...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Prevent the action of copying in ACS products when nothing is selected

If you press CTRL+C in any of the ACS products without a selection being active you get difference values from the difference features but you always end up copying something. I don't know who's bright idea this was but please stop it and remove t...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Delivered

ACS Data Transfer; DOS Random

When using IBM i Access Client Solutions data transfer need file type or translation for DOS Random. Use Case: ACH origination, wire transfers, and other data transfers.
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

Audit command needs better errors

Errors produced by the /usr/sbin/audit command are not helpful. They need to be more specific to help diagnose and solve the problem.
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Tool to test out NFS Tiebreaker in PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX clusters

Need a way to validate nfs tiebreaker configuration and operation. Today we can deploy it but there is no way to validate that it is truly working.
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered