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My votes: System Management

System monitor reset

In Navigator for I - system monitors , can you add an option to reset the threshold as soon as it is triggered. This was in the old inavigator. This means i can have a message sent to me every time the threshold is breached . Currently i get one m...
5 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Allow option 30 & 31 within the VCP on stand alone systems (non HMC)

Allowing the options would let admins that are attached through a remote connection to verify the information found on 30 & 31 options when troubleshooting a ASMI connection problem.
10 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Remove option "2. Report problem" on software problems on WRKPRB

Reporting a problem related to software is no longer supported from WRKPRB. Only for hardware issues. Remove the option, when it is a software issue. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6841625 "Starting 7.5, the ability to report a Software pr...
24 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Increase the hard design limitation for IBM i devices to 15 characters. The IBM i naming convention limits to 10 characters. I am at V7R5 OS level.

Our hospital has a need to rename workstation's standard name convention to Building-Floor-room-workstation number. Example: LH-G023-L01
28 days ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Expose Open Source (YUM Updates etc) to RSE API's

Would like to be able to get the same information displayed through the IBM i Access Client for Open Source management. This would allow remote management and monitoring of the Open Source packages installed on IBM i partitions from a single inter...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Get the navigator for i to the client how we use it in the IBM i access for windows.

Some customer dont let or permit the access to IBM i navigator for i for permission of firewall, security or compliance etc..... a good better could be get back the manage of the navigator to include in the IACS Solutions, and use a another port t...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

More visibility into ASP utilization across the system using NCDU and displaying it visually in Navigator

Often it is challenging to find files that need to be cleaned up on a system; especially since these systems have been around for 40+ years. Using NCDU I can scan the Libraries, DLO, and IFS and see where my disk utilization is and drill down from...
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

Advanced Job Scheduler - Increase job group size from 99 to 999 (# of jobs included in a group) (or at least more than 100)

We currently use a non-IBM job scheduler that frequently has over 100 jobs in the job grouping. We would like to use AJS to replace this product, but one of the limiting factors is only 99 jobs are allowed in a group.
about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

The IBM i pagseg conversion

Hello team, in the OLD iNAV we had a feature called AFP, to use that, in addition you have to install the AFP Workbench Viewer, etc... the idea is to improve that in the new iNAV (the pagseg feature is not available in new iNAV), but in a modern w...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

New IBM i Service for NetServer

I would like an IBM i service to see all the IBM i NetServer configuration
about 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management Submitted

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