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System Management

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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...
about 16 hours ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

Add IncludeGroup for use RSEAPI

Recently, to use the RSE API, we have the options "adminUsers", "includeUsers", or "excludeUsers". When we want to add a new user, we need to modify the file located at /QIBM/UserData/OS/RSEAPI/rseapi.properties, and then restart the ADMIN5 server...
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 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...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 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.
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

New Customer Portal for Increased Support Experience

I would like to propose a new main support portal for clients. In the portal you would be able to have a interface in which you could input your customer ID number or numbers depending on if you manage multiple IBM Power systems across different o...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 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...
5 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 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.
5 months 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...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

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