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System Management

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New Navigator for i - PDI customized chart

In Heritage Navigator for i - PDI tool, I created customized PDI charts for my use many times. I cannot find this feature in the New Navigator for i. Can you deliver it in the future?
10 months ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Adding multiple baseDN's to allow users for Single Sign on

IBM i allows only one baseDN for users to use Single Sign on . Requesting IBM development team to have enable multiple baseDN , so the users with different Organization unit (OU) can be added to baseDN to allow all users use Single sign on
over 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 5 Future consideration

Add 'Apply Immediate Only' option as a PTF Fix Action in Administrative Runtime Expert

Add 'Apply Immediate Only' option as a PTF Fix Action in Administrative Runtime Expert. With the latest update to ARE we got an option to apply PTFs delayed "Delayed apply" and send the SAVF file over. Lets do one more step and give the option to ...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future consideration

Advanced Job Scheduler Copy/Paste to multiple servers via ACS

We would like to be able to use Access Client Solutions to essentially copy/paste anything we create/configure in the Advanced Job Scheduler on one system to one or more other IBMi servers, much like we can do using iNAV for copying BRMS control g...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 6 Not under consideration

iseries managementpak for SCOM

provide a managementpak for integration in microsoft systemcenter operation manager (SCOM).it would be a great benefit for iseries to provide a basic functionality for SCOM integration. Use Case: provide a managementpak for integration in microsof...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under 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.
5 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Navigator for i - extend number op qsysopr message in one tab - now limited to 100 - also make refresh much faster

We use qsysopr message extensively - currently there are 100,000 messages in the message queue. To consult the recent messages it would be nice to be able to see more than the current 100 messages. now we have to use the tab sheets to look at the ...
6 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Future 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 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 3 Future 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 1 year ago in IBM i / System Management 2 Not under consideration