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System Management

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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.
4 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

SQL service to manage certificate store (import certificate to store)

Hello, I recently just been working on some certificates projects and I thought it would be a great use to have a SQL functionality to import certificate to a store. Furthermore It would be nice to have a possibility to assign or replace certifica...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

Websphere Liberty Express Start/Stop Multiple instances at one

Ability to start/stop Websphere Liberty Express instances at the same time. We have like 15 instances and currently doing sequential start/stop.
9 days ago in IBM i / Application Development / System Management 0 Submitted

Navigator for i - Trivializing SIEM Integration

Problem Statement Network and Security Operation Centers have a high desire to utilize SIEM technologies to centralize the logging of health, service status, system status, etc... of various appliances (both hard and software) in the enterprise. A...
23 days ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

IBM i Services for the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS)

IBM i is moving into the direction of adding SQL service to nealry every part of the operating system, except for the Advanced Job Scheduler. To my knowledge there are none. Since the license simplification the use of the Advanced Job Scheduler is...
9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Provide an end time for long running jobs in Advanced Job Scheduler (5770JS1)

We have a number of long running AJS jobs that start 06:00 and end 23:00 for example. It would be great to have this function built-in rather than have to write a routine to end the job.
2 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Provide capability to run ssh service when in restricted state

ssh is required to support automation of the system via Ansible. If the system is ended to a restricted state to perform certain operations (e.g. system save) automation cannot be used to control or manage the operation. Similarly, if the system i...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

Do not HOLD job schedule entries with CFGSTRPRSC on Source lpar

Since version 5.2 of the FSFC toolkit, the startup program is not replaced anymore with STRFSFLASH. Instead, command CFGSTRPRSC must be placed in the system's startup program. With this command. the job schedule entries are put on HOLD and afterwa...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Make the system number static for multiple systems connected to HMCs

We have many LPARs which our many operators need to start console sessions on (monitoring backups, etc.). As such, we use macros to connect to these LPARs. When an HMC is rebooted, the number of the systems often change so the existing macros eith...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Submitted

New IBM i Service for NetServer

I would like an IBM i service to see all the IBM i NetServer configuration
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted