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IBM i

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Better error details for iACS

The i Access Client Solutions product should give the user intelligible error messages. As is, it's giving useless error messages and IBM support has to review logs to determine the cause of the problem. Use Case: We were setting up a new PC. We t...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Migrating triggers when TGTRLS < N-2

Currently we can create triggers only with TGTRLS on N-2. For exemple if OS version is V7R1 we can use TGTRLS with V5R4, and when OS version is V7R3 we can use TGTRLS with V7R1.But when the table with trigger from a server V7R1 (with TGTRLS V5R4) ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

ACS - IFS upload option to specify Unicode (UTF8)

I noticed when using ACS Integrated File System, text files always get uploaded with CCSID 437, even when Unicode BOM is present. it would be useful if the file was created with 1208 in the IFS, either by automatically or selecting the CCSID.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

Enhance CMPPFM command

We currently use the CMPPFM command to provide an initial "sanity check" that data is replicated via our software correctly. DB2 tables have used this without issue until we had a requirement to support BLOB column types where the CMPPFM command f...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

add print output to 5250 session in ACS

Add print out put to 5250 session or a button that start print out put for the open session Use Case: to download a spool file you need to Select System and then open printer output. would like to be able to press a button on the tool bar that wil...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

BRMS: Allow Parallel Backup in BRMS when using *ALLUSR

According to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1012281BRMS does not allow a parallel save when using *ALLUSR.I want to be able to do so. Use Case: We spread our saves among four drives in our library.Objects within a library are c...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

Change the RPG compiler to add an option like ALIGN(*FULL)

The C compiler pads out a struct so that its length is a multiple of its alignment. So if the struct contains a pointer, the length will be a multiple of 16. RPG does not do this, even with the ALIGN keyword, so the RPG data structure might be up ...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

IBM Navigator for i and Kerberos

Would it be possible to implement the Kerberos connection to IBM Navigator for i Use Case: When IBM Navigator For I is launched from IBM i Access Client Solution, it is mandatory to connect with his user ID / password, while for other ACS function...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Security for i Access Client Solutions

We need an option to setup the minimum Version of iAccess client Solutions (iACS) which is allowed to connect to a system i LPAR. Additional we need to be able to restrict some functions / modules of iACS to be executed on a system i LPAR for defa...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 4 Delivered

Access Client Solution - Data Transfer Request - Detailed error message

When a data transfer request is rejected by an Exit Point security program, a dialog is presented which only states, "The function did not complete successfully." I'm requesting information to help determine why the function did not complete--spec...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 3 Delivered

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