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My votes: System Management

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Navigator For I GUI interface and Function Usage

New Navigator for i is not designed to hide those icons (see figure 1) The function Usage (figure 2) is the solution to restrict usage but some ID function no longer works : example product functions ==> QIBM_XD1_OPNAV I find it frustrating tha...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Include AFP Manager in New Navigator for i

The new Navigator for i does not include AFP Manager, which is most frequently used to import overlays and page segments that have been created using AFP Print Driver, now provided by Ricoh. The current AFP Manager also has functionality to import...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 14 Future consideration

Enable iASP column in IBM Navigator list view

IBM Navigator for i brings in new functionality in every release and customers are appreciating it. However we are still missing this IASP column in the view when we are viewing two or more systems together. For the disk usage we have *SYSBAS incl...
3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

Add Command and Package Definitions to the new Navigator for i (iACS)

After migrating to the newer IBM i ACS environment, Management Central system function is missing from IBM Navigator for i!!! The Management Central of old Client Access iNavigator, provided the ability to simultaneously perform systems management...
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Improve ARE (Administration Runtime Expert) Scheduler to allow a SysAdmin to Manage the ARE Tasks

We find ARE (Administration Runtime Expert) to be a fantastically useful Tool for monitoring and fixing IBM i Systems. Currently IBM ARE has it's own job scheduler to allow you to run templates automatically, which is ideal However, the ARE schedu...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

New Nav for i - Group System endpoints.

It would be nice to have the ability to group systems in New Nav. I have 130+ systems mixed into prod, dev, and qa. Would be nice to separate them on the Dashboard page. I am using one central location to manage all of my endpoints which is great!...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Edit files in IFS using Navigator for i or ACS

After we installed the latest PTF's, the old Heritage IBM navigator for i has been disabled. Just about every week we EDIT a lot of files in the root file system and we used to be able to do this through the Heritage version. The only file system ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Navigator for i - IFS analysis tool like TreeSize

I submitted this earlier (ID 133748) as a request for ACS, but it was declined and suggested that I resubmit it for Navigator for i. I can't seem to find a good and intuitive tool to get an overview of the IFS. It would be nice to able to look at ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Future consideration

Add ptf compare between multiple systems to New Navigator

The old fat client navigator with the compass from the deprecated windows product had the ability to compare PTF's between multiple systems and propagate them.Please add this to the New Navigator. Use Case: I want to know what PTF's are on my test...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Future consideration

SSO integration with Active Directory - Save and restore option

A lot of companys are asking for SSO integration with Active Directory. Adding identifiers with Navigator for I is not easy when you have 600 users... The option "new identifiers based from" could be usefull if we could add the kerberos regystry i...
9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Future consideration

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