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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

Support for multiple VIOS pairs in 1KSYS of VM Recovery Manager HA

Currently VM Recovery Manager HA supports only one VIOS pair per KSYS.In an environment where multiple VIOS pairs are exist on a single node, it is necessary to configure a separate KSYS for each VIOS pair.Therefore, please improve the function so...
almost 6 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Sending Apache Server access and error logs to a Syslog Server

Enable sending of Apache Server access and error logs on IBM i to a local or remote Syslog Server
8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Under review

Add storage provider

I have customer interresting by VM recovery manager but it storage substysem is not supported. Actually he use a Huawei storage subsystem
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Allow group profile password *NONE = *YES for IWS

Allow group profile to have no password in order for the business to use group profiles to deploy IWS installs. Currently fails and have to use their own user profile. This is not allowed and must use a group profile. Group profiles do not have pa...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Not under consideration

Change references of "discovery" (no such process) to "discover"

VMRDR has a "discover" and "verify" process but the word "discovery" is used too often, causes confusion, and should be changed to "discover". Here are two examples: 1. This vm's STATE should be "DISCOVER_FAILED" instead of "DISCOVERY_FAILED". The...
5 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Move the VLAN management from the host_group to the workgroup for more granular management. Away to have a backup of th

We have multiple VLANs in our PROD site, but a single VLAN in DR if the VLAN management was moved to the workgroup level it would be easier to manage the VLANs by creating a workgroup for each VLAN in PROD and mapping the VLAN for the workgroup to...
almost 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Allow service program AND SQL based APIs under the same web server

Currently, when deploying a new service on a Web Services Server, you have to select between ILE program object as a Web service or SQL as a Web service, and then specify the resource...i.e. URI path template. The URI path name becomes the Service...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Make mod_wsgi availble on the IBM i HTTP server

IBM i HTTP Server would be able to be used by any open source project that requires wsgi web server.Since this is a module already available in the Apache HTTP server product this would greatly enhance the adoption of Python web projects served on...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

MFA sur le pop-up de connexion apache

Nous souhaiterions activer le facteur d’authentification supplémentaire (MFA) en frontal, au niveau de la connexion pop-up Apache.
5 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted