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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 4, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Add Transfer Data Rate to ACS IFS file Upload/Download interface

The addition of a Data rate transfer information is useful telemetry data for IBM i SysAdmins and Networking specialists.  The addition of this calculation (in addition to the simple percentage complete) data would help to monitor, diagnose and resolve network issues. 

For maximum benefit, it would be best to see the total data transfer rate at the top of the dialog box as well as having the detail in each individual transfer.  This way you can see the total transfer rate for your session as well as the individual transfers. 

If you wanted to go one stage further and add time elapsed and estimated time to completion that would be the bees knees but this is secondary to the data rate mentioned above.

Finally, if you could record the above transfer details into the Message pane at the bottom of the IFS transfer window this would deliver the cherry on the file transfer cake

Many thanks
The Friendly Techie 

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Jul 17, 2025
    Thank you for submitting your Idea to enhance IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS). Measuring/Reporting network performance within the ACS application is not something we will consider doing at this time. There are already a variety of other tools available that are specifically designed to help monitor/debug network performance issues.

    IBM Power Systems Development
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