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System Management

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Do not re-create QSECEXP1 job schedule when changing profile expiration date

Hi IBM team, When changing the date in the USREXPDATE of the CHGUSRPRF command, the QSECEXP1 job schedule is re-created even if it already exists. Also, the description disapears and the 'Scheduled by' is changed with the profile that did the chan...
16 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

ADMIN1 server environment to communicate with port 636 for SPNEGO

IBM Navigator for i Single Signon, the configuration currently supports only 389 ports. Our environment we allowed only 636 LDAPS service. So our security team asked to use the 636 instead of 389 to configure iNavigator SSO.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Firmware level and PTF Group Currency on "About" page- IBM Navigator for i

My understanding is that Navigator for i get's it's info about the system through SQL. I am also aware of a SYSTOOL to show PTF group currency. My suggestion is to combine these two features, and include the PTF Group Currency on the "About" page ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

When Navigator is configured to support TLS, unsecure http requests to port 2001 should redirect to Navigator over https port 2003

Some customers configure TLS but do not disable the nonsecure ports "just in case". They use the https ports, but the nonsecure interface is still running. When running in this configuration, a request to http://servername:2001/ will redirect to t...
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Download spool file as text UTF-16 from IBM Navigator for i

In old client access, through navigator (desktop application), we could download spool file as UTF-16. But, In the new IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), through IBM Navigator for i, the spool file downloaded as UTF-8. Please, support, to downlo...
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Allow LDAP (non-)SSL to be enabled/disabled from the Navigator interface

Currently assigning a certificate via DCM enables SSL for the LDAP server, however it is not possible to alter the non-SSL/SSL checkboxes afterwards. Instead one is required to manually edit the IFS configuration file at '/qibm/userdata/os400/dirs...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Under review

New iNavigator - Printer Output - Heritage iNavigator vs New iNavigator - ASCII download of Spooled file

End users would like to see an ASCII option in download of spooled files from within new iNavigator
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Needs more information

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNav

within the new iNavigator - Active Jobs - Filter Job name that contains more than one. As an example, Job name contains QBAT, QINT I believe this was possible on the Heritage iNavigator
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

I'm using the audit data mart in web Navigator, please add an option to schedule the "refresh" job when the journal receiver gets changed.

currently we can have an advanced job scheduler job added to run at a specific time. This is great but allows for the possibility of missing journal receiver entries. I would like to add the option to run the audit journal data mart process when t...
7 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 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.
8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted