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System Management

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Modify Navigator to allow for Import and Export of Functional Usage

Currently making sure multiple systems have the same settings in relation to Functional Usage is a manual process. A good idea would be to allow for the export and import of the settings between iSeries systems. An even better idea would be to mak...
4 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Create in new Navigator for i same functionality that Heritage Navigator for i with DNS configuration.

Heritage Navigator for i has a lot of options of DNS configuration. But new Navigator for i has not DNS configurations options.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Agent needs to be able to return LPAR level statistics for processors, memory, etc. rather than only at the server level

Using a 3rd party application to track and manage hardware resources of our many LPARs, it serves us no purpose to have the SNMP walk report server level information when the SNMP agent is specific to each LPAR. Ex: One server has 24 processor cor...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

Add start mirroring function to new Navigator

The original Navigator and 'old' Navigator for i had an option to start disk pool mirroring on a newly created ASP or IASP, avoiding partition downtime to start mirroring in Dedicated Service Tools. That function is not available in new Navigator....
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

New Navigator: Customize browser for mobile clients

With IBM i 7.5 IBM i Access for Web is no longer supported. This includes the web interface for mobile clients. Have you tried using http://myibmi:2002/Navigator/ from a browser on a mobile client? UGLY!
over 2 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Omnifind Text Search management in New iNavigator or Access Client

The Omnifind Text Search Server management is missing in the Acces Client Database menu and the new iNavigator GUI. It would be very helpful for us to have a user friendly GUI to manage the Omnifind indexes.
about 3 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

FortiSIEM for IBM i 7.3

We are planning to use SIEM to monitor our system and they need to connect to our IBM i Operating system. Use Case: FortiSIEM will be used to monitor all servers on our network.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Not under consideration

QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV - be able to filter for move on directories

We would like to be able to filter for move operations for directories in QIBM_QPWFS_FILE_SERV. Today we can only filter for move (it can be a file or a directory). Use Case: We have issues with users moving folders they should not do but we canno...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

ARE sync PTF Coverletters when available

Always sync PTF coverletters when doing a PTF sync with ARE Use Case: When doing a PTF sync from an image catalog with PTF iso images PTF coverletters are transferred to the target system from the CS. When instead of an image catalog PTF savefiles...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / System Management 4 Future consideration

QALWJOBITP system value enhancement

The QALWJOBITP system value currently allows three values which define the following system conditions a) Whether jobs are allowed to be interruptible at all.b) Whether jobs by default are interruptible or uninterruptible. Given the condition that...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration