IBM Power Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Add a new idea Subscribe
Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories System Management
Created by Guest
Created on May 22, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

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 System Monitor service online without logging into Navigator (console program), it would be greatly beneficial to be able to start monitors during initial startup program or console without having to login to Navigator. This would help automate bringing up critical system metric data that is possibly being automatically ingested from external sources and tethered to alarming mechanism.

It would also be nice if this mechanism had a way to specify which specific monitor, or bulk monitors by owner or name as parameters. This way if you had a service profile owning your critical jobs you could in theory run: QSYSMONACT OWNER(SYSMONPROF) or QSYSMONACT OWNER(*ALL) to perform bulk operations (again, possibly in your startup program).

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    May 27, 2025

    Thank you very much!

    Reply
  • Guest
    May 27, 2025
    When a system is restarted, if ADMIN1 server is set to auto-start, IBM Navigator for i will start up the Monitor Server for the system.
    If ADMIN1 server is not set to auto-start, you can use the following command to start the Monitor Server:
    > QSYS/SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(QSYSDIR/QNAVMNSRV) PARM(*START)) JOB(QNAVMNSRV) JOBD(QGPL/QDFTSVR) JOBQ(QSYS/QSYSNOMAX) OUTQ(*CURRENT) USER(QWEBADMIN) CURLIB(*CRTDFT) INLLIBL(*JOBD) INLASPGRP(*JOBD) CCSID(37) CPYENVVAR(*NO)
    This is also listed here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6486565#startQNAVMNSRV.

    If a specific monitor is running (in state==Started) when a system is IPL'ed, it will be auto-started when the server is restarted. If it is not running when the system is shut down and restarted, that specific monitor will not be restarted.

    At this time we do not have a way to specifically start or stop a specific monitor with a command. This is done through the IBM Navigator for i GUI.
    IBM Power Systems Development
    Reply
  • Guest
    May 22, 2025

    Edit1: Added parameters to provide a more granular control to which monitors to bring up.

    Reply

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.