Key Takeaways
- Assure MIMIX 11, arriving in late 2026, addresses a critical gap in traditional HA/DR: what happens when corruption or ransomware replicates to the target before anyone notices.
- New Continuous Data Protection (CDP) capabilities give IBM i teams point-in-time recovery options that didn’t exist before.
- Migration Mode introduces a dedicated operating state for Data Groups during synchronization — reducing overhead and making initial sync and system moves cleaner and less disruptive.
- Simplified library protection and AI-guided assistance are also part of the release — making MIMIX easier to manage at every stage of the lifecycle.
For IBM i teams running high availability and disaster recovery operations, a lot has stayed the same for a long time. Traditional replication does its job. Environments stay synchronized. And when a planned switchover goes smoothly, it’s easy to feel like the bases are covered.
The problem is that ransomware doesn’t care about your replication schedule.
When malicious actors corrupt data, the most reliable thing about a traditional HA setup is that it will faithfully replicate that corruption to your target system — often before anyone realizes what’s happened. By the time the attack is detected, both environments are compromised. Your DR target, the one that was supposed to be the failsafe, is now just another victim.
That gap is one of the most significant things Assure MIMIX 11 is built to address. Here’s a look at what’s coming.
The Ransomware Problem Traditional HA Doesn’t Solve
The numbers around ransomware recovery are still sobering, even as organizations get better at responding. The average ransomware incident results in approximately 24 days of downtime. Across industries, the average total cost of a breach — remediation, downtime, legal exposure, regulatory fines — reaches $5.08 million per incident.
The harder question for IBM i teams isn’t whether ransomware can hit — it’s whether they can recover to a clean state when it does.
Traditional HA replication is designed to keep environments synchronized. That’s exactly the problem: when corruption occurs on the source, a replication solution doing its job will synchronize that corruption to the target. By the time an attack is detected, the window for clean recovery may already have closed.
HA and DR are not the same thing as recovery. That distinction matters now more than it ever has.
What’s New in Assure MIMIX 11
Continuous Data Protection for Cyber Recovery (Phase 1)
The most significant addition in this release is the introduction of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) capabilities for Assure MIMIX.
CDP gives IBM i teams the ability to recover to an acceptable point in time before corruption or malicious activity occurred — not just the most recent synchronized state. This is foundational work, and it’s a meaningful shift in what MIMIX can offer beyond traditional HA/DR.
What makes this particularly important is where traditional replication falls short. If ransomware begins encrypting or corrupting data, a replication solution that’s doing its job will replicate that corruption to the target. CDP creates a recovery path that isn’t dependent on the most recent state of the environment — which is exactly the capability you need when that state can’t be trusted.
Phase 1 lays the groundwork for more granular recovery options to follow.
Simplified Protection for Libraries, Schemas, and Collections
One of the consistently-cited friction points for MIMIX administrators is the complexity of protecting new and existing libraries — especially in environments where schemas and collections are changing regularly. Configuring journals, managing protection across dynamic environments, and keeping up with changes has historically required significant manual effort.
MIMIX 11 simplifies this. The new capability handles underlying journal complexity on behalf of the administrator, making it easier to protect both current libraries and newly created ones without the ongoing maintenance burden that comes with traditional approaches.
For teams managing large or rapidly changing environments, this is less time spent on replication configuration and more time spent on everything else.
Migration Mode: A Smarter Operating State for Synchronization
Synchronizing over the network has been part of MIMIX for some time. What’s new in MIMIX 11 is how the product behaves while that synchronization is underway.
Migration Mode introduces a dedicated operating state for Data Groups that aren’t yet in Steady State. When a Data Group is actively synchronizing, many features designed for steady-state operations simply don’t apply — and running them anyway adds overhead and noise without value. Migration Mode disables those features automatically during the synchronization process, so the environment is operating in a way that actually fits what it’s doing.
The result is a cleaner, more focused synchronization experience — one that’s better suited to migration scenarios and reduces friction for teams working through initial sync or system moves.
AI-Guided Assistance in the MIMIX Workflow
Already available and included in MIMIX 11 are generative AI recommendations built directly into the product experience for thousands of users.
When an error, exception, or message occurs, MIMIX can now surface AI-generated, context-specific guidance at the moment it’s needed — drawing on the Precisely knowledge base to help administrators understand what happened and what to do next, without leaving their workflow to search for answers externally.
For IBM i shops where institutional knowledge is concentrated in a small number of people, this matters. Sixty-nine percent of IBM i shops now rank the skills shortage as their top concern — surpassing security for the first time. Getting contextual guidance into the product itself reduces dependency on tribal knowledge and makes the platform more accessible to a broader team.
How Does Assure MIMIX 11 Go Beyond Traditional IBM i Replication?
Each of these capabilities solves a real operational problem. But taken together, they point at something bigger: a version of MIMIX that’s not just doing traditional replication better, but expanding what IBM i HA/DR can actually do.
The environments MIMIX runs in have gotten more complicated — more nodes, more migration scenarios, more exposure to cyber threats. The answer to that isn’t more manual work. It’s a product that handles more of the complexity for the team running it.
That’s what MIMIX 11 is building toward.
More Assure MIMIX 11 Enhancements: Licensing, Multi-Node Control, and Performance
Beyond the headline features, MIMIX 11 also includes:
- Improved multi-node control: administrators can now disable and re-enable individual nodes in complex HA environments without dismantling configurations, which makes managing offline systems due to planned or unplanned outages far less disruptive.
- Streamlined upgrade licensing: MIMIX 11 removes the version-specific license requirement for upgrades, so teams can move forward without waiting for new license keys and coordinating approvals
- Multi-threaded apply performance higher apply throughput without commitment-control bottlenecks for environments where replication speed matters
- State of the art IBM i compression is now used for object save and synchronization — reduced data transfer size during sync is particularly valuable in bandwidth-constrained or cloud-connected environments
Assure MIMIX 11 is on track for release in late 2026. If you’re currently running MIMIX and want to understand how these capabilities apply to your environment — particularly around cyber recovery readiness — now is a good time to start that conversation.
Want to talk through your current HA/DR posture before the release? Get in touch with our team.
