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ACS - Enable to input/view "Yen" and "Backslash" at the same time

ACS 5250 emulation does not allow to view/input Yen-sign and Backslash at the same time.On version 1.1.8.1, only Yes-sign can be used and impossible to use Backslash.No problem on Access for Windows PC5250. In EBCDIC and Unicode, they have differe...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 10 Delivered

ACS - Warning should be given to the user logging in if CAPS LOCK is activated

If CAPS LOCK is activated I would like to have a warning in the window where you give the user ID and password just like it is done in Windows. I assume that it is not possible in the 5250 screen but at least the small GUI window should do it. Use...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 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 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Don't use Java for DB2 HTTP services

Currently the HTTPGETxxxx APIs (n1) require and use Java under the covers. As best I can tell this means a new JVM is started in each job that uses the APIs. This makes it incredibly slow on smaller systems and subsequently limits the use cases. I...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

PowerVC - Customize the LPAR name, LUN's names and Storage Zoning names.

We have PowerVC setup to do storage provisioning and the PowerVC created LPAR, LUN's and Zoning names are currently not set as per our company standards.
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 7 Delivered

Procedure hover text for parameters

IBM Rational Developer for i (RDi) Version 9.6.0.1 gives hover text and content assist for procedures in RPGLE. This shows the parameters and the return type. You lose all of that when you start typing the parameters. Ideally, you'd get to keep th...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Change SQL Examples to search for just tokens not sentences

My current ACS release is 1.1.8.7. When I search for an example and I use words (tokens) that are in the displayed text but not in the order of the displayed text the search won't match. Make the SQL Examples use search word tokens to match to all...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

get n'th element in delimited string

in sql be able to extract the n'th element in a delimited string. would remove the need to use mutiple substring and posstr/locate. Use Case: select get_element('abc;def;100;;;qwert' , 3, ';') .... string, n'th element, delimiter would then return...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Change Open Source Member to Edit/Browse Mode

Currently if a source member is open in Browse mode, if I want to make a change, I have to close and re-open it in Edit mode. It would be nice if I could just use the right click menu to set Edit Mode. This would make a trip to the host to lock th...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Delivered

Flexible sender email address

Have the option to have a flexible sender email address a CL command with which I can send email. Use Case: Customers require us to have more flexibility when sending email from IBM i. In not all cases the job with which we send email can be run u...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 12 Delivered