RE: ACS crashing

Several months ago, our company replaced Oracle Java with Eclipse Adoptium java.version: 17.0.9, and it has been a shitshow for ACS users. It's usually fine as long as 1) you don't have too many ACS-related windows open and 2) you don't use multi-tab 5250 windows and switch between 24x80 and 27x132. Some of my colleagues have reported ACS crashing when they had only a few 5250 windows open.

I opened a case with IBM and, although Java 17 is "supported", they wouldn't budge that the likely solution was to change to Java 11. Unfortunately, changing from Oracle to Eclipse Adoptium was such a headache for our engineers who had to support it that they are absolutely loathe to consider adding support for another version of Java.

So, my point to Doug is, if you are able per your company's policy, follow IBM's advice on Java.

- Dan Bale

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... java-options-ibm-i-access-client-solutions ...
IBM recommends Java 11

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As far as I know, I am on the latest version:
Version: 1.1.9.7
java.version: 1.8.0_351

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