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As mentioned in the previous update, the Systems Configuration panel has been reworked so you can sort by Description and launch a task directly from that panel. Providing folders of systems will not be provided at this time.
There are no plans to group systems into a folder. However, our next update (1.1.8.2) which will be available in April 2019 will have some changes to System Configurations which may help with this request.
1. The System Name and Description will be side-by-side. You can already sort on either so you can group your systems with an appropriate prefix on the Description.
2. The size of the panel and its columns will be adjustable.
3. A menu of available functions will be provided so users can launch to various parts of ACS from this panel.
4. You can launch to this panel from the command line using /plugin=cfg /gui
5. For administrators that want to use this as their launch point for their users and do not want them changing the configuration, they can specify the following property to hide the configuration buttons at the bottom of the panel: com.ibm.iaccess.CfgActionsRestricted=true
With these changes, you will be able to organize your systems by Description and launch to various parts of ACS using the menu commands.
Another option already available today for organizing systems is to have multiple copies of ACS each with a unique AcsConfig.properties file.
I fully agree and already opened another RFC (see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126938 ) that was declined with a reason which is totally unacceptable to me (some of the suggestions are even hilarious in my opinion).
There should at least be an option so that the combo box contains the description (so you can create a grouping by using Customer - System) instead of an often meaningless system name.