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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

db2adutl parallelism

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM are performed using parallelism, sometimes up to parallelism 10. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have no access to the TSM server. In the source environment the Db2 ba...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

SQL2080N Snapshot Backup Failed Unique Volume Issue

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 6 Not under consideration

2G limitation in Db2 utility heap size allocation

If the number of buffers and buffer size are not user specified in the BACKUP DB command then Db2 limits the utility heap size allocation to 2G. Please remove this cap to allow for higher default allocation of the utility heap size which in turn s...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP command option: ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (tablespace-name)

Customer has a huge number of tablespaces (f.e. 10000) and wants to do a tablespace backup of all tablespaces except of for example 3 tablespaces. We would like to do the following: $ db2 BACKUP DB myDB ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (unnecessary...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow DROP db in QUIESCE mode

In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Improve backup configuration

Actually we need to define some environment variables like DSMI_DIR, DSMI_CONFIG to implement a TSM backup. So in case we forget to configure this at first moment we will need to do an instance restart. Would be better to consider some dynamic par...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Restore at table level

Mainly on auditing needs when you have to get some information from the past or when you need to recover just one table only its nowadays you have to do a complete restore. Would be good to have this feature.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Functionality already exists

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration