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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

HADR: Enable ROS for all LOBs

At a customer site we tried to use read on standby for reporting. That way we hoped to be able to redirect the load which is caused by reporting away from the operational DB and machine. Test failed because of some LOB-columns which couldn't be al...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

HADR/TSA/DB2 hang detection feature to have TSA automate a failover during a database hang

Today in HADR failover scenarios we do not detect the database hang on the primary and failover the database to the secondary servers using TSA automation. we need the script needs to accommodate the database hang and failover the database to the ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS a dynamic registry setting

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS registry a dynamic registry variable.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to execute Pacemaker status and version commands as a non-root user

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user to check the status and get the version: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion Pacemaker commands require root access to execute. A DB2 DBA may not have root access to execute Pacemak...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

DPF Support for HADR(RIMS)

DPF Support for HADRDPF Support for HADR
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration