Re: Updating the RDi supplied version of ACS

Hi Daniel,

We do still plan on having a shortened BETA.

Watch for the emails.

Steve Ferrell
Lead Software Engineer - RDi
Fortra





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Hi Steve,

is a Beta program planned for 9.9?

The last releases were rolled out without a Beta.

Regards,
Daniel


> Am 28.10.2025 um 17:34 schrieb Steve Ferrell via WDSCI-L <[email protected]>:
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> Jon, with 9.9, we will no longer ship ACS inside RDi.
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> I'd suggest voting up David's idea for ACS updates.
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> To: Rational Developer for IBM i <[email protected]>
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> I normally do - which interestingly as I noted earlier is how I got in the mess of having to launch with RDi in the first place!
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> Jon Paris
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>> On Oct 28, 2025, at 11:59 AM, Steve Ferrell via WDSCI-L <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Features or not, people should be updating ACS on a regular basis for security updates.
>>
>> Steve Ferrell
>> Lead Software Engineer - RDi
>> Fortra
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WDSCI-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jon
>> Paris
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 10:44 AM
>> To: Rational Developer for IBM i <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Updating the RDi supplied version of ACS
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>> David gave me some hints on locating that - will give it a try if I need any of the new features.
>>
>> I was foolishly hoping that there was a "real" update option.
>>
>>
>> Jon Paris
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>>>> On Oct 28, 2025, at 9:38 AM, Richard Schoen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Did you locate and replace the acsbundle.jar file ?
>>>
>>> That should do it.
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>>>> message: 1
>>>> date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:44:36 -0400
>>>> from: Jon Paris <[email protected]>
>>>> subject: [WDSCI-L] Updating the RDi supplied version of ACS
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know the best way to go about updating the RDi supplied version of ACS?
>>>>
>>>> And before anyone suggests just using the "normal" download and upgrade approach - that is not an option for me since despite wasting many, many hours, I am unable to get that version of ACS to work for me.
>>>>
>>>> Launching from RDi works, but of course it is not the latest version.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jon Paris
>>>> [email protected]
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