Operations Navigator

Overview

Source of information

• www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/oper_nav• www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/sftsol/mgmtcentral.htm• www.redbooks.ibm.com• www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/infocenter• www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/clientaccess

Goals of IBM’s Operation Navigator

• Modernize the user interface

• Leverage th elatest user interface technology

• Ease administration of systems in a network

• Leverage user’s Windows skills

• Reduce need to learn command interface

• Productivity

Printer Functions

• Manage printers– Explore printer output– Start/Stop/Restart– Hold/Release– Make Available/Unavailable– Reply to messages– Properties

• View printer output• Display properties

Double click the Operations Navigator Icon

AS400 Operations Navigator.lnk

Create Desktop Icons

Icon on Desktop

AFP Feature

AFP Workbench Viewer – Full function viewer included with CA

Click the + beside thunder.southeasttech.com

Click the + beside Database

Click the + beside Libraries

Right click Libraries and select New Library

Type on OO followed by userid for the library name. Click OK.

Database Navigator

• GUI for managing DB2/400 objects and performance– Create tables, views, aliases, indexes, functions,

procedures, journals, data types– Quickview/edit tables– Collect SQL performance data– Manage permissions(authorities) on DB objects

• Create, save, run SQL Scripts– Document editor interface associated to files of .SQL– Run all, selected, or single statements– SQL examples can be inserted and modified

Table enhancements

• Table Description: equal to Display File Description (DSPFD) command

• Locked rows: shows locked rows, the locking job and its job log

• View Executing SQL– List of active jobs with SQL statements running– Some job control (joblog, end job)– Can take the SQL statement running into the editor

• Visual Explain– Pictorial view of query execution– Query developer can understand execution flow of the

query and use this to do performance tuning

Right click the new Library called OOxxxxxxxx,

Select New, Select Table

Name the table EMPLOYERS and give it a description. Click OK.

Create Columns

Table Created

Right click, select Quick View

Note that there are no contents in the table (yet!)