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Status Submitted
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Allow means to display multi-line clickable hot spot links in ACS 5250 emulation.

Despite the intent for many to move to web based UIs, many products still have 5250 interfaces and many customers continue to want to use them.   It is useful for 5250 outputs to display a hyperlink to get to web help, do searches, etc. (e.g. starting with https:// ) and ACS makes that clickable.   However, there is no way to show a long link that spans more than one line -- only the content on the first line is treated as a link. 

Provide a means for native UI application to emit a multi line link that ACS can recognize and make clickable.  For example, perhaps if the multiline link is prefixed and suffixed with some delimiters: 

>>> https://www.ibm.com/blah/blahEndOfEmulatorLine
/moreOfTheUrlHere/
andMoreHere  <<<

The emulator would correctly paste the lines together, removing leading and trailing blanks and field attribute characters on each included line. 

This would allow dynamically generated links (such as those that have user included variable length data elements as parms) to be more usable and avoid the need to copy/paste multi-line links. 


It also allow applications to avoid the case where a line gets split and the clickable part is still there but only a partial URL. 


 

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