Fortra Power Development team wrapped 2025. The team delivered 66 releases containing nearly 300 enhancements and over 350 fixes and other minor updates and added four new developers.

I am proud of what Fortra's IBM Power team delivered in 2025: over five dozen releases with hundreds of enhancements and fixes, along with continued investment in IBM Power expertise, all focused on helping customers protect and operate their systems with confidence.
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The #IBMi #PowerHA June 2025 enhancements are now available. PowerHA continues to add enhancements centered around IBM Power Virtual Server including a simplified ability to manage multiple snapshots within a single FlashCopy session.

Learn more: bit.ly/HAJune25

#IBMi #PowerHA is providing significant enhancements for HA in IBM Power Virtual Server including:
1. Volume (LUN-Level) Switching between #IBMi systems.
2. FlashCopy for point in time snapshots of your data.
3. Simplified configuration of Global Replication Services (GRS).

Congratulations!

I am honored to be named an #IBMChampion for 2025! Thank you IBM, and congratulations to all the other IBM Champions! #IBMi

I am proud of Fortra’s Power development team! In 2024, we delivered 53 releases with nearly 300 new features, over 400 fixes, and welcomed new members to our team. Wishing you a happy and healthy new year! Watch our 2025 #IBMi Executive Briefing: youtu.be/QVvpGni-Il0

🔒PTFs for #IBMi #PowerHA 7.4 and 7.5 are available for the following Security Bulletin - Multiple CVEs in the PowerHA Web Interface [CVE-2024-55897, CVE-2024-55896] (2024.12.30)
www.ibm.com/support/page...
7.5 PTF: SJ03222
7.4 PTF: SJ03274

#IBMi #PowerHA now provides integration with IBM Power Virtual Server Global Replication Services, providing additional HA and DR options in cloud environments. Learn more about these new enhancements here: bit.ly/HADec24

Join us on December 12th, the Fortra #IBMi executive team of Tim Woodfield, Brian Nordland, Stacy Jensen, Dan Sjodin, Amy Williams, CISSP CISA PCIP and Tom Huntington provide an update on 2024 and a look into 2025. Thank you all for a great 2024.
Register: register.gotowebinar.com/register/829...

📢 #IBMi HIPER PTF Notification - Known Issue DT397753: Partitions with TR10/TR4 applied and an IASP may experience a system hang
While I don't normally make announcements for IBM-supplied PTFs, this one is important to apply. See the announcement here: bit.ly/HAPTFGRP

There are seven opportunities to join me at @COMMONug #NAViGATE2024 in Bonita Springs to learn about #IBMi high availability, disaster recovery, #PowerHA, and security.
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Highlighted session - what’s new in powerHA. September 16th 2024 at 11:30 AM. Learn through live demonstrations how to take advantage of all the exciting new enhancements in PowerHA with a focus around automation, simplification and integration.

Join me at COMMON #NAViGATE2024 to learn more about #IBMi high availability, disaster recovery and security!

www.common.org/navigate-flo...

Have you seen the initial version of the new #IBMi BRMS web interface?
It was released on June 28th as a PTF to the IBM 5770-BR2 product.
Learn more: bit.ly/brmsweb

New #IBMi #PowerHA PTF groups are now available for 7.4 (SF99666 level 18), and 7.5 (SF99676 level 9)! See bit.ly/HAPTFGRP to learn more! These PTF groups include all the recently released PowerHA enhancements plus additional recommended IBM i fixes.

Check out the latest #IBMi #PowerHA enhancements released in June:
1. The ability to manage PowerHA via the modern web interface
2. SQL Services for HyperSwap information
3. Improvements to the administrative domain
See ibm.biz/ibmi-powerha for more information.

Fortra is at MITEC sharing our IBM i expertise in several sessions and ready to talk about all of our solutions including those for #IBMi and IBM Power in cybersecurity, automation, BI, and document management.

Join me tomorrow, June 4th, 2024, at MITEC in Michigan to hear about #IBMi topics, including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, #PowerHA, and Security.
See my speaking schedule here: gomitec.com/speakers/bra...

I have the honor of presenting seven sessions at one of the largest #IBMi education events: @COMMONug #Powerup2024, covering topics such as HA/DR, #PowerHA, and security.

See my session schedule along with all the other great sessions here: powerup2024.sched.com/speaker/brian_…

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The PowerHA web interface will soon provide the ability to perform management actions.

#IBMi #PowerHA continues to announce enhancements alongside the spring IBM i TR, including support for FlashSystem asynchronous policy-based replication and the ability to perform management operations from the PowerHA web interface.

community.ibm.com/community/us...

New #IBMi #PowerHA PTF groups are now available for 7.4, and 7.5! See bit.ly/HAPTFGRP to learn more! These PTF groups include all the recently released PowerHA enhancements plus additional recommended IBM i fixes.

IBM i PowerHA March 2024 Enhancements including integration with policy-based replication and the ability to synchronize SNMPv3 attributes for printer device descriptions.

Check out the #IBMi #PowerHA March 2024 Enhancements:
✨Integration with FlashSystem and Spectrum Virtualize Asynchronous Policy-based replication
✨Ability to synchronize SNMPv3 attributes for printer device descriptions (SNMPUSR and SNMPCNTX)
Learn more: bit.ly/HAMar24

New #IBMi #PowerHA PTF groups are now available for 7.4, and 7.5!
See bit.ly/HAPTFGRP to learn more! These PTF groups include all the recently released PowerHA enhancements plus additional recommended IBM i fixes.

It is an honor to be named an #IBMChampion for 2024! Thank you, and congrats to all the other IBM Champions! #IBMi

PowerHA 7.5 HA 5.4.2 & 7.4 HA 4.10.2 Job Queue Tracking User-Defined Job Queue Tracking Start and end tracking for specified job queues to enable automatic tracking of job lifecycle information. Enhanced Visibility Users can easily view the status of active or recently active jobs at the time of the failure. Simplified Resubmission PowerHA simplifies the resubmission of these jobs, paving the way for quicker system recovery.

The #IBMi #PowerHA December 2023 enhancements are available early! This release includes job queue tracking along with several other enhancements and fixes. Find out more here: bit.ly/HADec23

IBM i PowerHA Web Interface See the PowerHA modern web interface that enables quick and easy monitoring of your PowerHA environment.

Have you taken a look at the new #IBMi #PowerHA web interface yet? See it in action in this 4-minute demonstration!

IBM i PowerHA FlashCopy Automation See how easy it is to use PowerHA's native automated FlashCopy integration with IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM FlashSystems storage.

Did you know that #IBMi #PowerHA has fully integrated IASP FlashCopy automation for #IBM FlashSystem and Spectrum Virtualize based storage such as SVC? See a quick demonstration!