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System Management

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    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.
    8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    The IBM i pagseg conversion

    Hello team, in the OLD iNAV we had a feature called AFP, to use that, in addition you have to install the AFP Workbench Viewer, etc... the idea is to improve that in the new iNAV (the pagseg feature is not available in new iNAV), but in a modern w...
    8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 Submitted

    Increase Ease of Bringing System Monitors Online

    Problem Statement When the System Monitor service is down (either shutdown or post IPL) each system monitor needs to be activated individually and through the Navigator for i interface. Solution Request In addition to being able to bring the Syste...
    8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    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...
    8 months ago in IBM i / System Management 0 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...
    9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future consideration

    Modern Look for IBM Navigator for i Using IBM’s Carbon Design System

    Updating the IBM Navigator for i interface by implementing the Carbon Design System (https://carbondesignsystem.com/)— IBM’s open-source design system built on the IBM Design Language. Carbon provides production-ready code, design tools, UX guidel...
    9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Improve management of Session Timeout Interval for Navigator for i

    Currently System Operators can not adjust their own Session Timeout Interval. The setting requires *ALLOBJ special authority. Another user with *ALLOBJ authority can't change the setting for the users without it. Instead, *ALLOBJ authority must be...
    9 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

    Provide an end time for long running jobs in Advanced Job Scheduler (5770JS1)

    We have a number of long running AJS jobs that start 06:00 and end 23:00 for example. It would be great to have this function built-in rather than have to write a routine to end the job.
    10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Submitted

    AS400 servers availability monitoring

    iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
    11 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration

    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...
    12 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

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