By Alex Woodie
Publication Date: 2026-08-03 04:02:00
August 3, 2026
Alex Woodie
The capability to weather disruptions is a hallmark of the IBM i platform and a major reason why so many companies around the world rely on it to run their businesses. To that end, IBM has enhanced the platform’s resilience capabilities as part of the recent Technology Refresh announcements with updates to Migrate While Active and the BRMS facility, as well as bringing a new VTL to IBM i.
As mentioned in our first story about the 2026 Summer TRs, IBM has updated Migrate While Active, which it originally announced back in October 2024 as a variant of the Db2 Mirror continuous availability product.
Instead of using superfast Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) commands over super low-latency RDMA Over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) lines to keep the possibility of lost transactions in the event of a system outage as close to zero as possible – as the…
