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    shared dual-cec configuration

    Let's take this scenario: we have two datacenters, each one has the same number of POWER servers managed by VMRM. We have two KSYS consoles - one in each datacenter. Basic idea is, when 1 DC acts as primary, while 2nd as standby. I'd like to have ...
    almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Future consideration

    Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

    At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Display current phase for each workgroup in the GUI

    In the GUI, display the current phase of every workgroup for both "Rehearsal Phase" and "Move Phase". More workgroups can add more confusion about which workgroup is in which phase during testing or real DRs. It would be helpful if the GUI were al...
    about 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    SRVAUTE replication administrative domain

    When you replicate a user profile in an administrative domain at the moment SRVAUTE are not under replication. This could be a big problem for all applications that are using this os feature. So, at the moment the only way possible to replicate th...
    10 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

    Have reports generate in the GUI, regardless if action was performed in the GUI or through Command line

    This would allow us to use the command line to perform our task quicker while still having the benefit of a generated report for auditors.
    10 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    ENDFLASH to not write changes on VRYOFF

    Problem description: We create flash partitions for temporary use and on the ENDFLASH we are just going to do another STRFLASH to refresh the data. No need to keep it. The writing changes to disk on the Vary Off is taking anywhere from 5-20 minute...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 4 Not under consideration

    Replicate save status and last save information across nodes in PowerHa Cluster.

    In a PowerHA cluster, if I perform a save operation (to a tape drive) in a FlashCopy system that information is not spread among other systems in cluster specially production (main) system. This cause some objects that must be saved before delete ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Not under consideration

    Unmanage port in VM Recovery Manager

    A customer is hitting an issue that we have seen a few times with customers. Discover / verify operation fails with the following error when issuing an inquiry command:migmgr -f get_adapter -t vscsi -s U9080.M9S.21D5C47-V2-C418 -w 1385770584273256...
    over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

    Replace Bull Frewware RPMs with IBM Open Source repository RPMs for VM Recovery Manager

    It would be much better for this product to use RPMs from IBM's own RPM repository, as managed by yum rather than using a third party RPM repo. Companies that standardize on using the RPMs from IBM's repo must uninstall them to utilize the RPMs fr...
    about 6 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

    Automatic failover notification

    When ending the primary node in a 5250 session by default an automatic failover as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=clusters-managing-failover-outage-events.There are ways to change this behavior, the Smart Assist Tool prov...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

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