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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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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...
11 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to query catalog tables and administrative views in stand by

There is an option called Read On Standby (ROS) that allows to connect and perform selects on the standby role of a HADR cluster. However, this is focussed to business tables. I propose the capability to perform selects on the standby but just on ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Manual HADR takeover should fail, if standby is in bad shape

Manual HADR takeover without FORCE should fail, if standby is in good shape.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Backup and Log Archive into private Clouds ownCloud/Nextcloud

Backup and Log Archive into a Cloud Storage
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
8 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT REORG

Please add function VARCHAR_FORMAT in the WHEN statement of a REORG.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Support of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for automated HADR(with TSA)

Customers are able to deploy a pair of virtual machines(VMs) from the Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and configure a Db2 HADR database pair between the two VMs. They can then furthermore configure HADR automation with TSA via the db2haicu utility. The...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

db2pd command to report exact operation that causes HADR replay only window

Currently only "Replay only window is active" is reported in db2diag.log, but not the detailed information about the operation that causes the replay only window, such as exact DDL, reorg, runstats, and etc. statements.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve HADR standby replay performance

a)HADR replay master contends with replay worker on queue, and lots of latch contention were observed.b)HADR replay has IO performance issue. Lots of random IOs were observed, and there should be some sort of prefetch IO to improve performance.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration