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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories Storage
Created by Guest
Created on May 24, 2019

Request for enhancement for IBM i PowerHA to support a dynamic change of its enlisted DS8000 HyperSwap PPRC secondary device

Request for enhancement for IBM i PowerHA to support a dynamic change of its enlisted DS8000 HyperSwap PPRC secondary device configuration (ref. PMR 66756,180,846; CPS B9ZMF6)


Use Case:

Required enhancement to allow for an IBM i online data migration for DS8000 storage system machine replacement in an existing PowerHA DS8000 Metro Mirror HyperSwap environment.
The data migration is based on DS8000 cascaded Global Copy and Metro Mirror incremental override as described in the "DS8870 Data Migration Techniques" Redbook (SG24-8257), chapter 4.2.2.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Nov 4, 2021

    Delivered in IBM i 7.4 TR4 and IBM i 7.3 TR11

  • Guest
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    Jan 7, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Storage
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - Other

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - PowerHA
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - Other