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Simplified deployment - Significantly reducing the number of manual steps required to configure PowerHA
Simplified management - Simplified commands with contextual f4 prompt options customized to the environment and status
Health Monitoring Dashboards - See the health of the environment at a glance
Geographic Mirroring RPO Information - Visibility to the real-time RPO for geographic mirroring enviornmentsenvironments
SQL Services - New SQL services for PowerHA session information
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PowerHA introduced support for SQL services earlier this year and is expanding this support to include SQL-based access for PowerHA session information, enabling clients to query information about the state of replication. The following new SQL Services are supported:
Additional Enhancements
There are several other enhancements to PowerHA including: Easier to configure firewall security and Quality of Service (QoS) in a Geographic Mirroring environment with the ability to specify a port number for use by Geographic Mirroring.
For additional information on specifying a custom port number for Geographic Mirroring see:
Specifying Port Number Used by Geographic Mirroring
Enhancement Availability
Release | PTF | Included in PTF Groups |
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7.2 PowerHA (for IBM i 7.2 and 7.3) | SI74921 | 7.2 SF99776 level 16 7.3 SF99876 level 13 |
7.4 PowerHA | SI74865 | 7.4 SF99666 level 5 |
Note: Above are highlights from this PTF release. See the PowerHA Release notes for the full list of fixes and enhancements.