Re: ACS 1.1.8.6 -- MIDRANGE-L

I believe the auto update looks to update from either one of your connections or from where it is set in the properties file.
It does not check IBM for updates.

(GettingStarted_en.html)

5.2 Setting up an IBM i Update Location

Administrators can use an IBM i system as their central location for doing installs and applying updates. Regardless of how you initially deploy the product to your users, you can use a central location on an IBM i so that your users can apply an update with a click of a button. Here are the steps:

Decide what IBM i system will be used as the central location.
Extract the latest product zip archive (IBMiAccess_v1r1.zip) to any place in the IBM i Integrated File System (IFS).
Set the following properties in the AcsConfig.properties file:
com.ibm.iaccess.CheckUpdateSystem=system_name (see Note 1 below)
com.ibm.iaccess.CheckUpdatePath=/path_where_zip_was_extracted (see Note 2 below)
Setting the com.ibm.iaccess.CheckUpdateSystem property causes Help->Check for Updates to behave differently. Instead of checking an external web location for the availability of an updated version, the above IBM i location will be checked for updated product files. An update will be detected when the timestamp of any required product file changes. The timestamp will be displayed on the Help->Check for Updates panel with an option to install the update.

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On Dec 5, 2020, at 9:18 AM, Mayer, Michael via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Interesting that I went out to the IBM CS site and 1.1.8.6 is available. However, I was surprised
To find this out because I have the auto-notification turned on inside ACS and it doesn't work
for some reason. When I click on the check for updates, that doesn't work / isn't showing
1.1.8.6 is available.

What am I missing here folks? It's always worked. I'm on a Dell laptop @ win-doze 10.
Is 1.1.8.6 for Mac's only at this time?
I apologize in advance if I made a mistake somewhere or missed something.

Very Respectfully,
Michael Mayer
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1. Re: ACS 1.1.8.6 (Carlos)

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message: 1
date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 14:59:53 -0600
from: Carlos <carlosir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: ACS 1.1.8.6

Thanks
I will install it
Happy Friday

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 4, 2020, at 2:52 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

?Thanks for checking.

In that case I guess it means that IBM have screwed up the Mac install again.

On Dec 4, 2020, at 3:51 PM, Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can confirm that I downloaded and I get 1.1.8.6.

The web page shows the older date, but we all know that IBM is slow to get all parts of the web updated.

<help about>
acshod-B20201204_133033
(64-bit)
11.0.8-B20130530
Version: 1.1.8.6
Build id: 0490
2020-12-01 09:30:11
C:\IBM\ACS\acsbundle.jar

java.version: 11.0.8
java.vendor: AdoptOpenJDK
</help about>

Jon Paris wrote on 12/4/2020 2:32 PM:

Can you confirm that version number please Bryan.
I installed it on my Mac and it says 1.1.8.5 Decided to try removing
that version so I was sure to get a clean install and ... the install runs and claims it was successful ... but NOTHING is installed!

On Dec 4, 2020, at 3:00 PM, Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Happy Friday

IBM i Access Client Solution version 1.1.8.6 is now available
http://ibm.biz/IBMi_ACS

Bryan
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