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ARE Single signon

Having the option to use ARE to lighten the burden of having to add the password for ever system you have enrolled in ARE GUI, would increase the usability of the scheduler present in ARE and also improve the usability of the console. Use Case: Ad...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

System list navigator

In a scenario of a company managing a significant amount of IBM i partitions it would be really important to have the ability to manage all those partitions via navigator. At the moment when a new system is defined one has to either manually enter...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

HTTP server not running in QHTTPSVR can not be managed by HTTP ADMIN

With the announcement of IBM i 7.1 TR 9 and IBM i 7.2 TR 1 it is now possible to let an HTTP server run in it's own subsystem. When looking at the following link "http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020061" it appears that this new...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Job Monitors

Request to have JOB monitors added into monitoring using access client solutions navigator for i Use Case: job monitors work better to monitor the specific jobs that are running instead of message monitors
over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

IBM Navigator for i - optional second value returned for metrics

Metrics could be enhanced significantly by allowing the use of a second (optional) value returned from the SQL. Use Case: The new iNav opens a world of possibilities with customisation of charts, metrics, etc. One thing that crossed my mind was th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Dir for HTTP instance remains in www when deleting the HTTP instance via iNav

When deleting an HTTP instance using IBM Nav for I, the dir and sub directories and all there contents remain in www directory. Why is this? They should be deleted. Example.HTTP instance guijalk was deleted.Below remain. guijwalk DIRconf DIRhtdocs...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

ARE PTF Sync progress indicator

When we are syncing PTF's against a CS system we are unaware of the progress. When using the Administration Runtime Expert we are unaware of the progress when using the GUI. We are in the dark regarding what to expect and when the syncing is done....
over 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Change default page for the New Navigator GUI

When logging into the New Navigator gui @ https://yoursystem.com:2003/Navigator/mainframe, it defaults to https://yoursystem.com:2003/Navigator/mainframe/dashboard-card. The primary page being used is the 'mainframe' page. I have to go up and maua...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Expose the iNavigator import CA certs via an API

The newly released iNavigator allows the automatic import of the latest CA certs to the *SYSTEM store. I would like to see this possible via an API that can be called from a program.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

IBM ARE (Application Runtime Expert) should flag the directory /QIBM/UserData/ARE/ibmare/logs with ATR(*ALWSAV) VALUE(*NO)

IBM traditionally flags log directories with ATR(*ALWSAV) VALUE(*NO) since save while active of IFS data is a sick joke. This helps to avoid messages like these CPFA09E/CPD384E messages: Object in use. Object is /QIBM/UserData/ARE/ibmare/logs/er...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration