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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Allow unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks associated with a virtual machine at a secondary (disaster recovery) site to be omitted during the discover/verify process, enabling disaster recovery operations.

    Allowing unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks for a DB2 virtual machine using a DB2 tie-breaker disk at a disaster recovery (DR) site will enable us to fully automate the failover from the primary to the secondary site.
    8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

    While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

    Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    RPO History and Thresholds

    With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    VMRM Discover/Verify - VM_CONFIG_COLLECTION_FAILURE for one LPar must not impact others

    We've VMRM 'HA' cluster among 2 Hosts. I had 5 VMs as 'managed', then i ran a Hostgroup discover + verify. Due to a HW failure the 'discover' failed for 2 VMs with event VM_CONFIG_COLLECTION_FAILURE, but was successful for the other 3 VMs. At the ...
    about 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration

    Enabling Port VLAN ID Update through VMRM DR using vNIC over SRIOV

    Enable the automatic update of Port VLAN IDs during VMRM DR failover through HMC to ensure network access for virtual machines.
    about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Support of modern remote copy function - Policy-based Replication (PBR)

    FlashSystem reference architectures are now based on Policy-based Replication (PBR). Policy-based Replication replaces Global Mirror, using volume group and no longer consistency group (replication) commands. This new Storage function should be su...
    over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Enable fc_mappings feature support in VMRM to be able to manage Migration between physical servers in Hostgroup which have multiple paths to disk

    Everybody deploying VMRM can benefit from it. In fact this is a product limitation for VMRM as the LPM SRR feature directly launched from HMC works properly while VMRM fails to manage this case. This prevents VMRM form managing properly the autom...
    over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 4 Planned for future release

    Add HMC authentication testing and displaying HMC authentication error output

    When the HMC password is changed manually through the HMC but KSYS's stored HMC password is not updated, the auto-nightly discover/verify processes continue to succeed until the HMCs are rebooted, which disconnects KSYS's authenticated session. (1...
    8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    When delete user profile(DLTUSRPRF), disregard user with IASP which cause failure.

    Power HA admin domain has issue with user that has job description with initial asp set, while trying to delete user profile. Receive message below on source: CPIBB12 Resource MFERNAN7 is inconsist> CPFBB2E Job submission failed for cluste> ...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

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