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    BRMS Web GUI interface needs to be made available for 5770BR1

    Fortra has developed a web interface for BRMS replacing the old web navigator interface that was deprecated. This new interface is only available in the new software subscription for BRMS, 5770BR2 with PTFs SJ00271and SJ00272.Not every customer is...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

    PowerHA SMUI support of ECDSA keys

    Current SMUI is using 8+ years old SSH libraries which do support only RSA keys. More modern keys like ECDSA are supported by used libraries for about 4 years. I do not understand why modern UI is relying on ancient libraries and does not allow us...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    BRMS 2 - for duplicated tapes, display the source and destination of the duplication

    With BRMS, you can see which band is the source and which band is the target for duplicated bands under wrkmedbrm. With BRMS2, you can only see that the band you.
    8 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    BRMS ICC - avoid loop when no more media available (using volume prefixes)

    Hello, That it might be interesting not to loop the backup when there is no more media available. we always get Cartridge xxx not available message in BRMS log when job is stuck. Regards, Axel C.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Is a defect

    Full system restore enhancement when restoring from both *FULL and *CUML saves.

    The last defense in a DR strategy is restoring a whole system from tapes using the recovery report (QP1ARCY) and that is a very time consuming task. If the backup strategy is done by using *FULL backups, maybe once a week, and *CUML the rest of th...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

    Support of SAP HANA multi-target scale-up configuration (A->B & A->C) via Smart Assist in PowerHA

    Multi-target HSR (Hana System Replication) A->B & A->C will likely be the most desired configuration for the customers who want both HA and DR for HANA. We are implementing it at the customer now, but since there is no smart assist, ther...
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

    Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    Smart assist support for NFS server

    We need smart assist support for NFS server
    about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

    Concurrent BRMS save of the same media would result in false BRM148A

    Previous i had raised the issue in IBM-i-3268. Occassionally when there happen to be multiple BRMS Save job happening BRMS would give a false BRM148A due to volume assignment contention. Although the idea is delivered, we still have the rare occur...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 7 Is a defect

    Hardware-Tape-Encryption

    According to https://www.ibm.com/docs/api/v1/content/ssw_ibm_i_74/rzam4/rzam4tapeencryption.htm the only way to encrypt tape backups without *KLM is to use software encryption.SW encryption is OK, but it uses precious CPU time and usually prolongs...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

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