Take Another Look at IBM i Access Client Solutions

Most of you have probably read about the new IBM i Access Client Solutions product that was announced this past July; several articles have been written on the topic. The IBM i Access website section on Client Solutions has a summary of the functionality, and it's on this page that you will find the URL to download the technology preview. 

I'm not going to rewrite information that you can find in the IBM articles I've linked to or that you can find in other resources. Rather, I wanted you to know that just this past week, a new article, IBM i Access Client Solutions: Accessing IBM i has never been easier, was added to the IBM i developerWorks site.

This article has the summary information on the product capabilities that you may have already read about. However, it has additional information on how to enable IBM i Access Solutions—whether you require a portable solution you can plug in with a USB drive, various other ways you deploy this solution, as well as considerations for mobile devices and how you can run this product on your iPad. While the application won't run natively on an iPad, you can connect to your IBM i with either SSH or VNC, run the application on the IBM i partition, and use the iPad as the display. The article has step-by-step instructions for how you can do this.

 Feedback on the product is important during the technology preview timeframe. (After all, isn’t that the whole point of doing a beta?) So if you have problems they should be reported through the support process. Feedback can also be made to IBM for feature requests or product enhancements.

Comments

[Aaron Bartell]

The best feature of all in this latest release.... Mac OSX is now supported!!! Yahoo!

I've been using it for a couple days and am liking it. The only issue I've had is mapping the Insert key to actually do an insert.

AaronBartell.com

[Susan Frazier]

I am having a hard time finding the jar file I need? Where is this located?

[Dawn May]

Hi Susan,
I assume you started by downloading the .zip file found on the IBM iAccess Web site (you need your IBM ID) - https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=swg-ia

This will download a .zip file. You should locate and store the .zip in the location of your choice. Expand the .zip file and you will then have a folder of files; withint that folder you should find a file named acsbundle.jar. You can launch this file to start the product.

Also, please refer to the "GettingStarted.txt" file for more detailed information for any prerequisites or more detailed installation information.

This GettingStarted.txt file is found at the following URL:
https://www6.software.ibm.com/sdfdl/v2/regs2/sharee2/iacs-java/v1r1/Xa.2/Xb.Fjx4e5cj2pyOnqi2I0l2iLxECAr6hZQ2pb7zKs41JQ/Xc.iacs-java/v1r1/GettingStarted_en.txt/Xd./Xf.LPr.D1vk/Xg.6765054/Xi.swg-ia/XY.regsrvs/XZ.Ph99CXRjIWWA4vJV0LS2_DLifCA/GettingStarted_en.txt

Hope this helps,
Dawn