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Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Needs more information

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Document that Currently Committed semantics is always enabled on column-organized tables.

Product:Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows v11.5 & 12.1 Requirement:Currently Committed semantics is enabled on column-organized tables. This should be described in our Document.Here is a candidate. cur_commit - Currently committed configuration...
12 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information

Db2rest set a limit on the connection timeout.

With Db2Rest currently single user (without any permissions) can disable whole rest service for everyone for around 19 minutes. If user, by mistake, uses isSSLConnection:True and port 50000 when requesting for authentication token at v1/auth/ endp...
13 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

LSF to track and report IO usage per job

Disk space is a valuable resource like memory or GPU/CPU/slots. Many IC design applications consume significant disk space when writing simulation results to disk. Tracking disk usage or I/O rate **PER JOB** will allow cluster administrators to mo...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

bconf supports to update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file

regarding TS020747969, we wanted update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file.
18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

improvement on guaranteed pool type for GPU resources

In our CMCC HPC data center using LSF scheduler as the batch queueing system, we configured different guaranteed pools in order to handle different needs of the users using the Service Class system.The guaranteed pools implemented use both hosts a...
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Under review