Operations Console; Summary - IBM i series Handbook

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These features are new with V5R1 of Operations Navigator GUI:
• Work management (active jobs, subsystems, job queues, memory pools)
• Backup and Recovery (BRMS GUI plug-in)
• Logical Partitioning (LPAR) management is enhanced to support scheduled movement
of resources such as processing units, interactive percentage allocation, and main
memory between OS/400 partitions
• System values, including system comparison and update via Management Central
• Distributed user/group administration via Management Central
• Licensed program and fix creation, distribution, and installation via Management
Central
• Enhancements to performance monitors and collection services to graph extended
time periods
• New monitors and events for managing jobs and messages
• Complete DASD management: Disk balancing, compression, management of disk
pools, and units
• Simple two-node cluster configuration
• Integrated Netfinity Server: Windows user/group and disk administration
• Database Navigator, provides a pictorial view of the database showing the
relationships between objects
• Graphical command prompting
• TaskPads, a user interface extension, allows easy access to key administrative tasks

Operations Console

Operations Console enables PC workstations to locally or remotely perform iSeries server
operations and services (system console functions). It is packaged with Client Access
Express for Windows.

Summary

With the new Express client, iSeries Client Access continues to provide desktop users with
highly functional frameworks and easy-to-use interfaces to:
• Access network printers
• Work with DB2 Universal Database or other data stored on the iSeries
• Run 5250 applications
• Manage PCs connected to iSeries servers as well as providing a fully graphical
interface for administrators and operators who are managing iSeries servers
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