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System Management

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Navigator should allow 'Clean up PTFs' for all Products.

System: IBM iRelease: 730Product: Navigator for iDescription: Customer uses Navigator for PTF management, they would like to 'Clean up PTFs' for all products. Currently they have to select each product one at a time, would like the function to do ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Delivered

Modernize Application Administration Interface in Navigator for i

The Application Administration interface i Navigator for i is old and klunky. It is also slow and unusable. The biggest problem is selecting a user profile - there is no search/find box and the list displays all user profiles on the system, which ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

ARE to be able to handle a MRI PTF

ARE is not able to correctly apply a MRI ptf. When the option to apply the PTF's delayed is chosen. The MRI is not set to be applied. Use Case: ARE is not able to correctly apply a MRI ptf. When the option to apply the PTF's delayed is chosen. The...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Delivered

ARE being able to handle a TFR PTF

ARE - PTF distribution issue with a Technology Refresh PTF Use Case: ARE is not able to correctly apply a TFR ptf. When the option to apply the PTF's delayed is chosen. The TFR PTF is set to be applied temporary.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Add Auto Refresh of log messages in IBM Navigator for i

The web interface for IBM Navigator for i does not have an auto refresh option when viewing active job logs or system operator messages. Use Case: Being able to auto refresh the logs for watching activity during certain periods rather than having ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Allow Navigator for i to use SSL/TLS Host Server ports

Closing/Restricting the Host Server ports to be SSL/TLS only breaks the Navigator for i login page. I was able to point the sign-on server port(8476) to service "as-signon-s" to force it over, but I would like a supported method of doing this to b...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Delivered

Nav4i viewing logs/msgq

We use Nav4i al the time, when viewing the system logs/message queues the time zone of the PC running the browser is taken into account. This is misleading to say the least. Use Case: When trying to analyse a problem we were running Nav4i in a PC ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Delivered

Nav4i JVM's

On the systems we manage JVM's plays an important part in running applications. Overall one could say that there roll is getting more and more importance.Keeping track with the command WRKJVMJOB or the DB2 for i Service "QSYS2.JVM_INFO" are alread...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Allow user defined options in Navigator for i

Add the ability for users / ISVs to add options to the Navigator for i Interface Use Case: An ISV as an application management module that they wish to add to the Navigator for i Interface so that systems management for the OS and the ISV applicat...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

Navigator for i - configure to use encrypted ports

During a recent pen test it was noted that the un-encrypted ports (8470 through 8476) were open. When we try to apply a port restriction for those ports many of the Navigator for i functions stopped working. This is due to Navigator for i using th...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Delivered

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