Shock Horror Director for IBM i Navigator is better! Well it was! Now it is again… Maybe..

After a 3 days upgrade from V6.1 to V7.1 we thought things were getting better. Then we noticed that the HTTP server was starting which should not have happened as we had set it not to start any servers when it was running V6R1. So we thought we would go back into the *ADMIN server and set it not to start up again. As soon as we tried to access the pages it would end abnormally with a SSL error so we raised a PMR with IBM. Fix was fairly simple, we just deleted the customer config and restarted the server and we were in. The biggest shock was just how much faster it was then previously, not sure why?

We were also informed by IBM that we should install the latest PTF groups which we did. Unfortunately we then had no access to Director yet again? It just sits there for hours waiting to connect…..

So thinking back on what we had done previously I deleted the customer config again which removed the SSL connection and restarted the server again. We could then access all of the pages again and while the performance left a hell of a lot lot be desired it could at least be used. We decided to configure the SSL connection again to see if the upgrade had caused the problems we saw and we could not get back into the server at all, we just keep getting the access to / is denied message… So its back to no SSL until we get the time to understand what issue setting up SSL is giving us?

If you are going to use IBM Director for i Navigator and see the problems we did and you don’t need SSL turn it off, life is a lot simpler that way.

Chris…

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