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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 12, 2025

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Include Emulator/pdfpdt directory in export and on import/create the directory if it does not exist.

Customers using PDTs for 5250 printer emulation sessions with a pdt must have the pdt file in Emulator/pdfpdt directory. However this is not included when exporting from a template configuration for deployment and so is missing on target import, causing printer session to fail. 

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Aug 13, 2025
    Thank you for submitting your Idea to enhance IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS). We understand the request and will consider it for a future update though no commitment is made nor implied.

    IBM Power Systems Development
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  • Guest
    Aug 13, 2025

    So clear. Issue is:
    You have a reference computer that has 5250 printer session that has PDT files configured.
    You do an export to create the acs_bak.zip file.
    That acs_bak.zip file is missing the .\pdfpdt folder and connect.
    So obviously the import function for users, is not going to result in a working 5250 printer session.
    My suggestion would be that the reference computer is the master setup. That the content exported as part of IBM ACS export function, includes the \PDTPDF folder content and replaces existing content (including the index file for the PDT files). This would be in line with what happens with the .hod files for example.
    This would then cater to both when there would be a new \pdfpdt folder, as well as maintaining going forward when the version of the template is used with the version control in the acsconfig.properties file.
    Regardless as to how done, the way it is at the moment, it doesn't work.

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