RE: updated version of ACS is available

If you open the QuickStartGuide.html the heading shows the last updated
date as October 11, 2016.

While this does not show the actual version number it does help in
identifying the recentness of the release.

In my iACS download directory I have;

IBMiAccess_v1r1.zip
IBMiAccess_v1r1a.zip
IBMiAccess_v1r1b.zip
IBMiAccess_v1r1c.zip
IBMiAccess_v1r1d.zip

But it would be very nice of IBM if they could just name the zip files
with the full version number ?

Cheers

Don Brown




From: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 29/10/2016 07:42 AM
Subject: RE: updated version of ACS is available
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



I get the same thing, but never really stopped to question it. The
acsbundle.jar within the ZIP shows the date (19 Oct 16 today).

Justin Taylor



-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 3:11 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: updated version of ACS is available

On 10/28/2016 3:35 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

That's funny. When I click on "Updates" from that link I see

I clicked on 'Download IBM i Access Client Solutions base package'

October 2016 – Version 1.1.6.1

Yep. And when you click on the link that actually does the download, what
do you see? I see

IBM i Access Client Solutions
IBMiAccess_v1r1.zip (69 MB)

I then click 'Download using http' and I see

IBM i Access Client Solutions
IBMiAccess_v1r1.zip (69 MB)

When I finally downloaded the thing, I ended up with
IBMiAccess_v1r1(4).zip

Which I mistakenly read as 'M4'. So yep, I got that part wrong. My
download doesn't seem to have 1.1.6.1 anywhere in a file name that I can
readily see.

Weirdly enough, the README isn't actually in the download; it's completely
separate. There is a readmespacs.txt in the Documentation directory, but
it does not specifically note the version. I can infer that it's at least
1.1.6.0 by reading the APARs. Also in the Documentation is acs_v1r1m4.css
Getting Started doesn't note the version.

If I have a thumb drive with this directory tree on it, and a month from
now I want to install it at home, how will I know what version I'm about
to install? At the moment, the easiest thing to do is simply load it in
some temp directory, run it and do Help > About to figure out which is
what.

That continues to surprise me.

--
--buck

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