RE: ACS bringing back more IBM i Navigator Features

No political struggle at all, same guy owns both. They are responding
entirely to user requests.


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 9:31 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: ACS bringing back more IBM i Navigator Features

I also wonder if there is a political struggle between the web version and
the fat client of the new IBM i Access for Client Solutions. I think the
web version will be relegated to "administrators" at least until they allow
you to totally bypass that initial performance screen and allow you to link
directly to things like printer output.


Rob Berendt
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From: Matt Olson <Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/20/2017 10:14 AM
Subject: ACS bringing back more IBM i Navigator Features
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



It looks like the folks at IBM are listening to customer requests and
realizing the web version of Navigator is not a very good database
development/management productivity tool and are bringing back the
features we have had for years within IBM I Navigator and packaging them
in with the next version of ACS slated to be released this month.

This is important because recall that the old Navigator is not a supported
product on modern OS's (such as Windows 10).

It seems they even kept the Windows 3.1 era icons around in the "new" ACS
database management features.

This is all highlighted near the end on this youtube video by Scott
Forstie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AqkycKqjME&feature=em-uploademail

Now here is to hoping they get something on par with SQL Management Studio
one day. But I'm guessing that would take a lot more development resources
than they have available. At least it's a step in the right direction,
even if it isn't in the direction I wish they would be taking such as
making IBM Data Studio the defacto DB2 management tool for any flavor of
DB2. For now we have to live with a fragmented tool landscape.