IBM Access Client Solutions (ACS) has a feature to check for updates automatically. You can enable this feature by selecting the “Check for Updates” option under the Help menu of the ACS Main User Interface. Alternatively, you can go to Edit -> Preferences and select “Notify when update is available”.
So, you run the update and then expect to see the latest version:
Which happily updates me to the entirely wrong version 1.1.9.3 Build 3301 dated roughly a year ago. Aaaaaargh
After the auto-update and reboot (to “nuke it from orbit to be sure”) I see:
And yet… if I log into the IBM i ACS website I can see this is NOT the latest version.
The real version I see for download is V1.1.9.6 !!!
Weird huh? So, I downloaded it manually and installed just fine.
I have a theory that IBM i ACS takes the version from the IFS of the machine you are connected to… or at least it does for this current version this might change entirely in the future. Can you hear me IBM? Please grab the latest version from the IBM repository like a Windows Update but for IBMi ACS. I’m mirroring the latest version here if you want to snaffle it.
So, here I am now running in all my v1.1.9.6 glory:
Doesn’t that mean that you have configured an IBM i server as your primary update site in ACS? And that the IBM i has an outdated version of ACS on it?
Would be nice if the update function would actually check if the ‘update’ is newer than your current version if that is the case though! XD
Hmmm – good point. Where is the “local” install of ACS on the IBM i System? I mean, which IFS location… I will go hunting and see if I can update that manually.
Look for IBMiAccess_v1r1.zip in /QIBM/ProdData/Access/ACS/Base on your IBM i
LIKE!
I wonder if I can load the latest ACS version into the default IBM folder and allow it to be pulled by other users? Hmmm. Naughty I know but could be cool…