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Access Client Solutions - Log on using Windows userId and password

In Client Access we had the possibility to tell it that it should use Windows userId and passwordto log on the as/400. This is not possible in Access Client Solutions (ACS). The first time you start ACS you are prompted for both userId and passwor...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS copy with formatting

When copying from a terminal session, it would be great if there was a way to copy the text with formatting (foreground and background color). It could be a separate option (as Copy as Table) or multiple formats (text, RTF, HTML) copied to the Cli...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

ACS - hotspot function and 3D-buttons

We are using the hotspot function on every ACS client.We also use the function "show as 3D-buttons". Currently you can only activate the 3D-buttons for every function you selected (PFnn, FPnn, Fnn, nn), but we would like to have the choice which f...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

probevue Enhancement to handle security product system calls

When security products such as Imperva or Guardium is used, the probevue tool in AIX is unable to find the system calls that these security products intercept such as read, write, open, close, stat, etc. This makes it impossible to use probevue sc...
over 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Omnifind Text Search management in New iNavigator or Access Client

The Omnifind Text Search Server management is missing in the Acces Client Database menu and the new iNavigator GUI. It would be very helpful for us to have a user friendly GUI to manage the Omnifind indexes.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Provide public API in JTOpen to clear a user's "Message Waiting" status

In 5250, there is a concept of a “message light/waiting” that is on/off to show whether a user has received a new message when the *NOTIFY message option is set on their user profile. If the user is logged in to a 5250 session, and they get a new ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

API or SQL Service similar to QDCRDEVD DEVD1100 to retrieve *lan printers Address

Currently the only way to get the ip address for a *lan printer is DSPDEVD and page down. We have hundreds of printers and it would be beneficial to our help desk to be able to find it without giving them access DSPDEVD.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Application Development 1 Submitted

Add option to save expanded column width on All Systems.

It would be nice to be able to expand the All Systems column to fit the space required to see the full name of the frame and save it. This is also important for various size monitors. Apparently the save user preferences does not save this setting.
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

IBM i ACCESS FOR WEB product is not under your consideration a step back for the future

Hi I am afraid to kwon that the IBM i Access per Web (5770-XH2) product is not under your consideration . It is the only way to access, with native software, an IBM i with a BROWSER and it has e very lot of functions to help customers and programm...
11 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 2 Not under consideration

Auto Generate Procedures

Today in Eclipse when coding Java applications you can type a call to a method without the method existing. When eclipse sees that the method does not exist it gives an auto correct option to create the method based on the parameters passed in the...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Future consideration

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