Re: Automating ACS Data Transfer

On Jan 29, 2024, at 8:45 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I looked a bit farther - there is a directory off the root of the JAR file named jarcacheinfo - in there is text file names acsjarcacheinfo.txt - that has the same information, like this in a version from January, 2022.

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Title:
Implementation-Version: 5733-XJ1 Version 1 Release 1 Modification leve
l 9 driver 1490
Driver-Build-Date: Driver 1490 M/D/Y H:M:S 01/28/2022 13:56:22
Specification-Vendor: IBM Corporation
Specification-Title: IBM i Access Client Solutions
Main-Class: com.ibm.iaccess.launch.AcsLaunchPad
Implementation-Vendor: IBM Corporation
Permissions: all-permissions
Name: /
Specification-Version: 1.1.9
Created-By: 1.8.0_301 (IBM Corporation)
SplashScreen-Image: Copyright/splash.png

I'm beginning to wonder if the 4th value in the "version" is the 1st digit of the driver.

Just guessing!

Regards
Vern

On 1/29/2024 8:10 PM, Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Hi again

I'm curious to know how knowing this helps you - what would you differently for different releases? There haven't really been differences in parameters for plugins, have they? Of course, there probably have been new plugins, but I don't recall. There have been some Ideas to change existing plugins, though.

I also looked into some of the high-level files - I find this in MANIFEST.MF in version 1.1.9.3 -

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Title:
Implementation-Version: 5733-XJ1 Version 1 Release 1 Modification leve
l 9 driver 3301
Driver-Build-Date: Driver 3301 M/D/Y H:M:S 07/28/2023 15:04:09
Specification-Vendor: IBM Corporation
Specification-Title: IBM i Access Client Solutions
Main-Class: com.ibm.iaccess.launch.AcsLaunchPad
Implementation-Vendor: IBM Corporation
Permissions: all-permissions
Name: /
Specification-Version: 1.1.9
Created-By: 1.8.0_371 (IBM Corporation)

I see the 1.1.9, but I can't find where the last digit comes from - there are lots of other contents, more than I'm going to investigate, though!

On 1/29/2024 12:30 PM, Bdietz400 wrote:
My point is the be able to easily see the VRM of the acsbundle.jar.
When I asked IBM they had me look inside the jar for some pieces of info.
So when I put this in I was unable to figure out, other than file size, what version of ACS I had.
I was working on using the plugin for cldownload from a CL program. I had copied the acsbundle up to the IFS. (This was before the PTFs came out)

Maybe one day IBM give this Idea to a new Intern to figure out. 😏

--
Bryan Dietz

On Jan 29, 2024, at 8:00 AM, Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fair question - Bryan is asking for another ACS plugin that will return information we can see now when we take Help-->About from any of the user interfaces.

The Idea is over 3 years old and is labeled as under consideration. I'd like more about the use case, just saying we need it isn't enough for my meager imagination. And from the link we got, I wasn't able to see comments, so I don't think I can add one. The Idea site is the place where IBM is sure to see anything we say, not here, necessarily.

Regards
Vern

On 1/29/2024 6:59 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
Bryan,
I've read your idea. It seems to be trying to get the ACS version of the
current 5250 session user from the IBM i command line.

First of all, the OP is using IBM i as his client. So what version of iACS
he's running on his PC is meaningless. Read his original statement. I
didn't catch it at first.

But to your idea,
Would it help if IBM would populate these columns?
select job_name, client_acctng, client_applname, client_programid,
interface_name, interface_type, interface_level
from table(qsys2.active_job_info(JOB_NAME_FILTER => '*',
DETAILED_INFO => 'ALL')) x

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=services-active-job-info-table-function

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 2:15 PM Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Vern, this brings up and "idea" i have out there.
I would like to be able to get the version number from a commandline
<help><about> option.

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-2896

Bryan

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