March 12, 2013
You
may remember the IBM announcement
last October that included “IBM Navigator for i usability and
performance enhancements.” Late in December, all of the required PTFs for this
functionality were made available. However, the announcement information did
not include all of the details of the new enhancements. If you take a look at
the PTF cover letter of the IBM Navigator for i service pack update, SI47573,
you will discover there are more enhancements that have been made than were
included in the announcement information.
The announcement
information covered the general usability and performance enhancements to the
user interface – significant improvements have been made to the navigation with
expandable sections in the left-hand navigation frame, which makes it more like
System i Navigator. The usability and performance of tabs and tables have also
been significantly improved. The Navigator for i page on the developerWorks site has additional
information.
One area that had
major enhancements that was not included in the
announcement information was the Performance Data Investigator. The blog last
fall, Performance
Data Investigator – Better than Ever, reviewed
those changes. The IBM i developerWorks site was recently updated with
more information on these Fall
2012 enhancements.
If you read the PTF
cover letter referenced above, you will discover that there are additional
enhancements to IFS support, Disk Management support, OmniFind, DHCP and
Database. Most of the enhancements are available for both the 6.1 and 7.1
releases and at the end of this article is a list of the PTFs you will need for
each release.
I encourage you to
install these PTFs if you have not yet done so and start using the latest
features. You’ll be ready to explore the additional enhancements that I will
write about in the upcoming weeks.
You need the following PTFs for full functionality. Note the
PTF group levels listed below are the latest levels available as of the writing
of this blog.
◦
IBM
HTTP server for i group PTF (includes the java toolbox PTFs)
This PTF will provide the functionality you need for the Navigator console.
▪
7.1 - SF99368 level 17
▪
6.1 – SF99115 level 29
◦
Java
group PTF
Since the Navigator function is implemented in Java, it's always a good idea to
have the latest Java group PTF installed.
▪
7.1 - SF99572 level
12
▪
6.1 – SF99562 level 23
◦
Database
group PTF
Many enhancements were made to the database capabilities so you also need the
latest DB2 PTFs on the partitions you are managing. Performance Data
Investigator enhancements for DB2 are only supported on 7.1.
▪
7.1 - SF99701 level 23
▪
6.1 – SF99601 level 28
◦
Performance
Tools group PTF
The Performance Data Investigator enhancements also have operating system
enhancements that are required; you will need these PTFs on the partitions you
are managing.
▪
7.1 - SF99145 level 5
▪
6.1 – SF99144 level 6
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