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    Add options to use different shared Filesystems for SAP Smart Assist

    When using PHA SAP Smart Assist it is required to use NFS 4.It would be very helpful to have an option to use NFS 3 or ISS (GPFS) instead.
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    NVMeOF support in PowerHA

    Fibre Channel (FC)-Nonvolatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics (NVMeoF) protocol in the PowerVM N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) stack (NVMeoF) offers a significant boost in performance and efficiency. AIX on Power Systems, supports NVMe over Fi...
    about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    add feature to predict if "verification + synchronisation" will bring resource group(s) down of not

    When you make a change to the powerHA configuration on one node you have to run "Verify and Synchronize Cluster Configuration" to propagate the change to the other nodes. When you do that the smit panels will give you the following warning: "Depen...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

    BRMS to ignore some non-critical errors when saving spools

    BRMS does stop save procedure in some cases of non-cricital errors like saving QUSRSYS with some spool files damaged. It would be preferrable to have BRMS by default ignore the errors, post more detailed information into DSPLOGBRM and continue sav...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Not under consideration

    Make Last Saved Info Object Information visible on production partition when BRMS backup occurs on Flashcopy partition

    To improve Production up-time, we have adopted a Backup strategy where the IBM i production partition is flash copied to a backup partition. BRMS is used to do a full save of the backup partition to tape media. This means the SAVE object informati...
    12 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

    If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log.

    If there is an application monitor installed e. g. that runs every 5 minutes it doesn't reflect the status to the clavan.log. So, if there are no log entries the clavan cmd says "clavan: Not able to analyze application availability because both th...
    about 1 year ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

    PowerHA make use of the SVC tiebreaker information

    For SVC Stretched Cluster based PowerHA implementation. For split-brain situations, it would be very helpful if PowerHA would be able read the decision made by the underlying SVC cluster.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Not under consideration

    Add a PowerHA smart Assist component for IBM InfoSphere DataStage app

    Our team uses PowerHA SystemMirror for our IBM InfoSphere DataStage application. However, PowerHA SystemMirror doesn't have a smart assist components for this product.
    over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

    Improve PowerHA SVC/FlashSystem ssh access security model

    Today PowerHA requires unrestricted the Admin role via SSH to manage the copy relationships on SVC/FlashSystem family storage. In todays modern security environment this is unacceptable to have a full multitenant array have unrestricted SSH access...
    over 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Submitted

    PowerHA cl_extendvg

    Today if you extend a cluster VG through smit hacmp or by command cl_extendvg the disk will be added even it is used already on another system.In non PowerHA environments (extendvg) this is avoided and you would have to force the command. In Power...
    over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

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