Working with IBM Navigator for i

More details on how to use the IBM® Navigator for i Web console to perform your IBM i management tasks.

To perform a task:

1. Access the following URL from a Web browser where systemName is your IBM i name:
   • http://systemName:2001
2. Locate the task category (Basic Operations, Work Management, etc) that contains the task you want to perform.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Expand the task category by clicking on the + icon in front of the category name and navigate to the desired task, then click on that task
   • Click on the task category name to display the Welcome Page for that task category in the console work space, and expand the category. The Welcome Pages have links to the most commonly used tasks and extra descriptions about the tasks.
     1. Note: The last node under each task category is the All Tasks node. You can click on this or expand this node to display a hierarchy of all tasks available within that category.
     2. Note: If a node is blue, you can click on it to display its contents in the work space. If a node is black, all you can do is expand it to show its contents in the task navigation area.
4. When you click on a task in the navigation area, or on a Welcome Page, a new page opens within the console work space. Each page is identified by a tab that has the task name and an x, which can be clicked to close the page.

   Hint: To have more horizontal space to work with a list of items on a page, you can click on the < icon in the task navigation area to temporarily hide the navigation area and use the entire console area to display the task page.

5. Use the tabs to navigate between open pages or to close a specific page. If you have more pages open than can fit within the work space, < and > icons will appear to allow you to scroll back and forth to view additional pages.
   • Hint: Right click on any tab in the work space and select “Open in new window” to show that page in a separate browser window or browser tab, depending on your browser settings.
   • Hint: Right click on any tab in the work space and select “Close all tabs” to remove all pages from the work space in one step.
   • Hint: Data on the separate pages are “cached” as new pages are opened. That means when you click away to another page, and then back to the previous page, the data on the page is not reloaded from the server.

Hint: The quickest way to get to the information you want is usually by navigating to the desired task in the navigation area. For example, let’s say you want to work with the interactive jobs on the system (jobs running in Qinter subsystem). The two common ways to do this are shown below. Method 2 is the quickest way to get to this list of jobs, AND you get the list to appear on its own page in the work space.

1. Expand Work Management. Click on Active Subsystems, which displays the list of subsystems in the work space. Right click on the Qinter subystem, and select the Jobs action, to display the list of jobs running in that subsystem.
2. Expand Work Management. Expand Active Subsystems. Click on the Qinter subsystem in the navigation area.

How to use the tables that are used to display lists of IBM i resources:

The tables that are used to display lists of resources within IBM Navigator for i are new for V7R2. They take advantage of the “dojo” web technology to perform many of the common user interactions within the browser via JavaScript. Some of the key features of this table are listed below:

• Right click on an item to display the context menu for that item.
• Use Shift+click to select a contiguous "block" of items, then right click anywhere in the block to display the actions for those selected items.
• Use Ctrl+click to select multiple non-contiguous items, then right click on any selected item to display the actions for those items.
• Click on the Actions dropdown in the table header area to perform actions that apply to the entire list (Columns, Include, New … , etc), or to perform actions against any already selected items in the list.
• Click the Configure Options icon in the table header to change the columns to be displayed.
  Note: This change is NOT persistent.
• Click on the Refresh icon in the table header to update the data from the server.
• Type any character(s) into the Quick Filter area at the right of the table header to quickly filter the list. Do NOT press Enter after doing this, simply type the desired filter characters and then stop. Items in the list that have those characters in ANY column will be displayed in the list.

  To remove the filtering, simply click "Clear filter" at the top of the list.

• To filter by a specific column, or to specify multiple filters, click on the icon to the right of the Quick Filter area to display the Advanced Filter dialog. The + icon at the bottom of this dialog can be used to add additional filter criteria to the list.
• Use the icons and page size choices in the table footer to go to additional pages, or to change the number of items displayed within a table "page". You can use the vertical scroll bar at the right of the table to move up and down in the list, or, if you have selected an item in the list, you can press the Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End key sequences to go to the top or bottom of the list.