Wait what? New Navigator coming with new tech? That is certainly most
awesome. It's faster and better and incredible!
Yes I too am a 'CLI Guy' for admin. That includes IBM i but also VIOS,
much of the work in the HMC, Storage, Fiber switches, Linux etc.
But here's the thing, I've been doing this for, um, 'some time' :-) so
I'm used to using the keyboard and keyboard shortcuts efficiently. I
know many commands and their parameters from memory as well as function
keys. As a consequence I can use it effectively often completing a task
before the current Navigator for i is loaded and signed in.
Additionally It's rather easy to document 'ADDTCPIFC ....' in about 2
lines and perhaps a hundred character in WORD for example. Document that
much in WORD using screen shots from Navigator for i including how to
get to adding an interface and you're up to several pages and several
megabytes.
BUT when you don't know what us CLI guys know, it's PAINFUL to watch
someone who is not CLI trained do so in the CLI. I did that early this
week on a screen share where I could not take over the keyboard. Simply
adding an Ethernet line description, IP interface and route in the CLI
should have taken MAX 2 minutes, perhaps under 1. Half an hour. Checking
if it was active and listening on ports with netstat *CNN the poor guy
had no little clue about F-keys and those 13 and up, "Wait, Shift key
plus the F3?> That's a 15?" (sigh) It was truly painful. He'd never
heard of QCMD, didn't know about F9 (Or F8!!) and not a clue that the
tab key gets you to an entry field or that cursoring past the edge of
the screen rolls to the far side. You could see him CONSTANTLY moving
his hand to the mouse and back as he directed the cursor to the right
spot with the mouse pointer.
It's not how most new folks are trained!
Besides that have you SEEN the processor utilization graph for the day
in the green screen? Me neither!!
- Dr F
(Sad side knowt the guy was using a 'free copy' of Mocha because 'we
can't afford IBM's client.' You guessed it, XW1 was *NOMAX. WHERE do
these people get their business partners?!?!?!?)
On 2/24/2021 3:25 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
Regarding Navigator's performance, I was musing about Tim Rowe's assessment
about it being built on stone-age web technology and hinting that IBM would
fix that. Third time's the charm, right? Or is that 4th, or 5th, or 6th...
whatever...
If you go back far enough, remember everyone complained about the
performance of the thick client - for years, until PCs got so fast
that it resolved the issue.
For what it's worth, I still prefer green-screen system admin over every
GUI interface IBM has provided.
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