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Status Submitted
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 7, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Add ability to change font/size in IBM i Access product

Some of us do are not so young anymore, and do not have the eyesight required to deal with tiny fonts. On the IBM i Access Client Solutions panel, the menu options (File, Edit, View, Actions, etc.) and their drop-down items are in a nicely sized font.

However, the entire remainder of the panel uses a much smaller font.


This is also the case in the Database Schemas panel. All of the treeview items are in a small font, and all of the subsequent panels that can be opened from the Schemas panel are small.

Also, please allow selection of a monospaced font for the grid that appears when viewing the contents of a table (for that matter, allow selection of a monospaced font for all panels). It can be difficult to distinguish 0/O (zero, letter "O"), 1/l (1, lowercase "l") with the small non-monospaced font.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Carmelita Ruvalcaba
    Reply
    |     Apr 11, 2023

    The CAAC has reviewed this IBM Idea and recommends that IBM view this as a “nice to have” low priority feature.​

    This also would be a benefit to those who have disabilities. Not just those who are older and their eye sight is getting worse.

    Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your Idea. ​


    For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac​


    Carmelita Ruvalcaba- CAAC Program Manager​

  • Admin
    Sabine Jordan
    Reply
    |     Mar 21, 2023

    The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a HIGH priority requirement that is important to address.


    CEAC would like to have improved font scaling / zooming available that is rather common in modenr web applications

    Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.

    To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT

    Sabine Jordan + Sara Anrdres – CEAC Program Manager, IBM

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 15, 2023

    I hear you!

    If you are using Windows 10 there is a setting to help with this...

    Go into Settings, Ease of Access, Display

    Make everything bigger

    I set mine to 125% and it works great.

    Definitely helps with the eye strain.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 10, 2023

    I tried some browser tricks to make things bigger - nothing, it's not a browser - duh! So I like this Idea, as there seems no other way to make it more accessible.

    I've a couplequestions about the monospace bit for viewing contents of tables. Is this in the Schemas panel or in RSS? Or both? What is the gain, other than, depending on font, distinguishing 0 and O, etc.? What is the expectation of non-IBM i folks, who use, say, SQL Server's Query Manager (current name?) or DBeaver or one of the other database tools.

    Vern

    COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) member


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