Responding to some of the Web Navigator discussion.
Slow response times - Unless you are running on a Power 5 machine with
very little process or memory, the performance issues are most likely
being cause by a network configuration issue on your system. Right now,
the Navigator GUI is sensitive to IPV6 configuration issues, if a DNS
server is not set correctly, Navigator will experience time out issues
waiting on the DNS. There are no error messages, just a slow responding
interface. Best way to see if that is what is going on run the following
command. Go into 'QSH' Enter -
/QIBM/ProdData/OS/OSGi/templates/bin/areVerify.sh -network
This will run the network verifier for the Application Runtime Expert.
Review the out put, if there is a network configuration concern, it will
be signified. How you can contact your network folks to get this
corrected.
There was a comment about SSL, The Navigator runs under SSL, always has,
always will. Sure you only need to enter your Host name and port 2001, but
at that point you are then redirected to HTTPs and Port 2005, before you
enter anything, you are running encrypted.
Browsers - Currently FF and IE are your best choices. But starting in June
(just a couple of weeks away) we will be delivering a new DG1 PTF Group
which will have support for Chrome and based on my testing, that works far
better then the other too mentioned browsers.
Missing function between Web and Installed Client, the IBM I 7.2 version
includes a number of these items. We have added PTF support, Load,
install, Send to another system. Compare ptfs on one system to another. We
have also added Monitoring support for Messages and Many System
performance metrics. Yes, the Run SQL is still missing and it being worked
on.
The Web Navigator when it was delivered originally in IBM i 6.1 did have
a great deal of function, but for a variety of reasons, the usability and
performance was lacking. In Jan of 2013, we made our first step on the
path of making the web interface a usable interface. With the recent
improvements in IBM i 7.2 we have made another huge step along this path.
There are significant long term problems with continuing on the Client
path, the biggest being the concern that it will no longer work on the
next release of Windows. In addition there are many users leveraging other
environments including Linus, Apple, and Mobile devices as we look to the
future. This is why we have have focused on the Web. We do want to hear
there are key things from the client that we need to put in the web
Navigator, 1 good example that I have sent on to the team is the ability
to send objects from 1 system to another.
We deliver updates to the Web Navigator twice a year, with each iteration
we are progressing along the path to making Navigator the solution of
choice.
Thanks Tim
Tim Rowe, timmr@xxxxxxxxxx
Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i
IBM i Development Lab, Rochester, MN
(507) 253-6191 (Tie) 553-6191
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/are/index.html
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