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ACS IFS component-Need Initial Load Filter to reduce files loaded per directory. Not InterActive Filter of loaded files list.

We have IFS directories with 20,000-30,000 files in them. It takes forever to download the whole list of files in the directory, which must be loaded before we can use the interactive filter to narrow down what we are looking for.At times, my netw...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

change RESPONSE_HTTP_HEADER for QSYS2.HTTP_GET_VERBOSE when we want cookie

The HTTP functions do not handle the multiple use of the "set-cookie" headers within an HTTP response. The root issue is that JSON keys should be unique and multiple instances of the "set-cookie" key are not permitted in JSON. Here is a possible a...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

New switch for ACS Plugin CLDOWNLOAD - Include Column Headings

Support a new switch in the CLDOWNLOAD plugin for ACS to support including column headings. Note: this feature is available within the ACS Run SQL Scripts GUI in the lower portion when saving the results, so the request is to provide the same func...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Provide an IBM i Service for Collection Services configuration information

I have a need to review the Collection Services configuration when I work with clients. I must either do this manually through the GUI or with the CFGPFRCOL command. There is the Retrieve Collection Services Attributes API, but this would require ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Performance Tools 2 Delivered

Provide warning when a user profile approaches maximum total user profile internal entries

Provide warning when a user profile approaches maximum total user profile internal entries, which is approximately 50 million entries. This number is the sum of owned object, private authority, authorized user, and primary group entries for any on...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Delivered

ACS Connection Management

We run about 130 ibm i partitions and use of course ACS to manage them. So in ACS the list of systems to choose to connect to is quite long. I guess most IBM i customers do not have such a large number of partitions and are not in the need of mana...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 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

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 ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

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

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...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

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