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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
19 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Configure PaceMaker for Db2/HADR automation using "rsync" as an option for "db2crm" script.

Ability to configure the entire PaceMaker cluster for Db2 HADR without using ftp or scp. For security reasons, some client environments do not allow the use of "ftp" or "scp". The cluster creation option accepts "rsync" as an option instead of "sc...
8 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
6 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

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

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user / db2 instance to check the status , get the version , enable disable cluster: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion db2haicu -disable Pacemaker commands require root access to execut...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0

Read On Standby (ROS) Access during Upgrade process LUW

During the version upgrade of Db2 LUW, the standby (ROS enabled) needs to be brought down - during the upgrade: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization I wou...
11 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

HADR/Pacemaker for AIX

While HADR/Pacemaker for Linux is available, Pacemaker for AIX is not availabe and needed now to avoid a hold-up in our adoption of Db2 vNext.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

db2expln stopped working from db2v11.5.7.0 onward on HADR STANDBY

db2expln, doesn't write / update and tables on the database and it was working till db2 v11.5.5 on STANDBY RO enabled, from v11.5.7.0 it stopped working, many time there is a need to check explain out on STANDBY RO enabled
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Statements (DDL and DML) 6 Functionality already exists

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration