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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 22, 2025

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ACS should reestablish connection to session when comminication is lost.

ACS is extremely sensitive when the communication is lost. Every time this happens a new session is started. Instead of this behaviour I would like that the connection is established to the original session. The problem happens for example when the VPN connection is lost or when a user is driving around in a storage with a forklist and the wireless signal is lost for a moment.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Jul 22, 2025
    Thank you for submitting your Idea to enhance IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS). ACS is not able to recover a 5250 session from a dropped network connection, but there are a couple other possibilities you could explore:
    1. Setting the system value QDEVRCYACN to either *MSG or *DSCENDRQS may help with recovering a dropped connection.
    2. Consider having a PC running ACS in an office environment and then use remote desktop from the forklift to access the PC running ACS. Even if the forklift operator temporarily loses the remote desktop connection, when they are able to reconnect to the office PC running ACS, the ACS connections will still be connected.
    Note: To prevent ACS connections from being dropped from the network due to inactivity, look for the property com.ibm.iaccess.ConnectionStayAlive in the AcsConfig.properties file in our 1.1.9.8 update.
    For the above reasons, this Idea is being Declined.
    IBM Power Systems Development
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