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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/VM
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 24, 2014

RELATED IDEAS

Allow ESMs to be deployed one at a time to SSI members

This requirement came from PMR 59002,379,000, Customer UNITED HEALTHCARE SERVICES, Customer representative Mark Wheeler. In summary, Mark would like to be able to install an External Security Manager (ESM) application to each member of his multi-member SSI cluster. He would like to be able to do this in a "rolling" fashion, that is, install the ESM on one member while the other members do not have one installed. Production guests would be relocated accordingly so that the iterative ESM installations could proceed on the other SSI members, one at a time, without disruption of the production guests.

This is currently not possible. To implement an ESM on all SSI members, all members have to be brought down at the same time, which means that all guests and their applications are down at the same time. When Mark attempts to do this today in a "rolling" fashion one member at a time, he fails with the message "HCPPLM1663E SSI function JOIN has failed for service Security."

Refer to the PMR for more information and discussion of this topic.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 2, 2016

    IBM does not plan to deliver this function in the future.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 25, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #55269 in product z/VM.

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