Not all functions that are available in green screen command or that were supported in the heritage version of Navigator are available in the new product, which IBM calls “New Nav.” But the new Navigator is IBM’s strategic direction going forward, and any new functionality will go into it, while the heritage Navigator product is stabilized, according to IBM i Product Manager Alison Butterill. “But we’re also making it easier for Navigator to do something that our clients have wanted for a long time, which is to have Navigator manage multiple IBM i images within one screen, one pane of glass, one browser interface,” he said. IBM completely rebuilt IBM i Navigator atop Angular, Prime, and SQL Services. “It’s become a strategic item for us to be able to manage our system via services, and now that Navigator is built on top of those, we are eating our own cooking,” IBM i Architect Steve Will told IT Jungle in a briefing. With this release, IBM completely overhauled Navigator from the ground up, rewriting it in Angular and Prime, and basing it entirely on SQL Services. We’ll give you a general overview of these goodies in this story, to be followed with more detailed stories on specific items.Īt the top of the list of TR enhancements is a total refresh of IBM i Navigator, the primary utility that administrators use to monitor and manage IBM i systems.

Midrange and entry-level Power10 models, which are expected to be announced later this year and into 2021, will also need one of these two operating systems.īut IBM packed a lot more goodies into these TRs (its fourth TR refresh during the COVID pandemic) that will interest the bulk of IBM i shops (that is, the 99.9 percent of us who aren’t immediately adopting the big new enterprise-class machine). Companies that want to use one of the new Power10 servers – starting with the high-end Power E1080, which is slated to ship later this month – will have to run 7.3 TR11 or 7.4 TR5. The big piece of news with the new TRs – IBM i TR 7.3 TR11 and 7.4 TR5 – is support for servers based on IBM’s speedy new Power10 processor, which is the first Power chip based on its 7 nanometer process. The fall TRs, which typically are announced in October, brought support for the new Power10-based Power E1080 server in addition to a slew of enhancements to the operating system and surrounding IBM i products. IBM surprised the midrange world last week by announcing Technology Refreshes (TRs) for IBM i 7.3 and 7.4, which became generally available on Friday.

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