The whitepaper explores how IBM i Migrate While Active (MWA) enables organizations to perform near-zero downtime migrations of critical IBM i workloads. In today’s always-on business environment, traditional migration methods that require long maintenance windows can disrupt operations and impact productivity.

It explains how MWA allows organizations to migrate IBM i logical partitions to new infrastructure, across data centers or to cloud environments, while production systems remain live. Using asynchronous data synchronization and a phased migration approach, MWA builds and synchronizes a copy node in the background to minimize business disruption.

The paper also outlines the technical architecture, prerequisites and key migration phases, along with common use cases such as hardware refresh, cloud migration and data center relocation, helping organizations modernize infrastructure with confidence.