Build and manage your own software products

In addition to managing IBM^® products, you can create and manage your own products.

iSeries™ Navigator provides a function called Management Central that helps you do that. Management Central provides many tools that you can use to manage IBM and non-IBM installed software products. Use Management Central to package and send software products, generate fixes, generate online software agreements, and generate license keys.

iSeries Navigator gives you the resources to use Management Central to create your own products and install them throughout your network. For your own products, you can create, distribute, and install your fixes across your network. You can also use the security capabilities of object signing and signature verification to protect and verify the integrity of a variety of i5/OS™ objects when you distribute packages for other systems to use.

• Package and send your own software products
  Packaging and distributing your products makes your applications into a product that is installed and maintained in the same manner as the IBM licensed programs.
• Generate fixes for installed products using Management Central
  Use iSeries Navigator to generate fixes for the packaged products that you have defined and installed on your server.
• Generate software agreements for your own products
  To present license terms before you install a non-IBM software product, you generate a software agreement and then associate it with your packaged product. To do this, you use either Management Central or software product APIs. Users then accept the software agreement to continue with the installation of the software product.
• Generate license keys for your own products
  Use this information to find out how to generate software license keys to allow access to your own products.