Re: IBM Navigator for i on 7.1

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't really give you that "we care" feeling, does it? Hopefully this 
customer will upgrade to 7.2 or 7.3 soon.


On 4/26/2017 12:18 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> I've got a 8202-E4B, and I don't use Nav for i because of how slow it is.  When I raised the issue of speed, I was told that it's my problem.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [mailto:petercdow@xxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: IBM Navigator for i on 7.1
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> I'm having my first encounter with the web-based IBM Navigator for i, on Power 7 hardware (Power 720 Express, 8202-E4D), and I'm fascinated by how exceedingly slow it is.
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> I used to consider the IBM System i Navigator client slow, but it is usable. This web-based thing is waaaay beyond that. How is it possible that it's that slow?  What could it possibly be doing? Two minutes ago I clicked on "Table Partitions" (under Database -> All Tasks -> Actions -- I don't even know how long it took to get that far) and typed this sentence (slowly) and it just now finished. And all it managed to do is display a dropdown that has nothing in it, and a text box asking me to select the table for which to show partitions.
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> I was looking for Run SQL Scripts, but at this rate it make take 15-20 minutes to find it.
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