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IBM i

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Add possibility to run an Excel macro from SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET

It would be convenient having the possibility to automatically run an Excel macro on a worksheet created by SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET. For instance to generate a chart based on the Excel data created.
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

IBMi AJS 7.5 is linked to previous 7.2 instead of current 7.5

I have updated my comments to the URL but as there were no response or changes I created this support. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-advanced-job-scheduler-ihttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/pdf/rzasnadjspdf.pdfthis URL is linked to...
4 months ago in IBM i / Documentation 1 Submitted

In the run sql scripts window, save the open tabs so that they can be reopened automatically.

In the run sql scripts window, several tabs are often open. When you're working on them for several days in a row, it's tedious to have to reopen them each time you start the window.It would be very useful to be able to indicate whether or not you...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 1 Submitted

disable the non SSL host server

disable the non SSL host server Use Case: disable the non SSL host server similar to Telnet with SSL ONLY
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Future consideration

Allow SSH for 5250

Telnet has been identified as a security risk, which is mitigated by the TLS1.2 security applied to it, but I would like to see the connection for IBM Access Client Solution 5250 sessions have the option to use an SSH connection instead of Telnet....
over 3 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Show description in "System" drop down box for ACS

When having lots of systems, sometimes with the most weird hostnames or even IP-addresses it is hard to remember which one is which when starting en emulation or other function. Use Case: In the System Configurations you can specificy a descriptio...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Not under consideration

Allow use of RPG procedures in embedded SQL as host "variable"

When writing embedded SQL, host variables should be real variables instead of expressions which requires additional step to define extra work variables and assign the expression in advance to the work variable. Use Case: An example might be as fol...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Provide proper SQL auditing user/timestamps

Currently there's a mix of SESSION and CLIENT_USERID fields that can be used with Generated Always but the first returns the native account, while the second returns the client account but is blank when executed from SQL on IBM i itself. Please pr...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Remember the last pad the user was on when the popup keypad was last closed

I categorize my macros on the popup keypad by pad. It would be handy to be able to set an option to retain the last used pad. So, the next time I open the popup keypad and the previous time I had it open I ran a macro on pad 2 for instance, it wou...
7 months ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Functionality already exists

ACS - Consuming high memory in Citrix

Our Citrix users workstation were recently upgraded from IBM i Access for Windows to Access Client Solutions. And we observed that ACS was consuming high amount of memory. Citrix team already tried this document found in IBM portal (https://www.ib...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Future consideration