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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Not under consideration

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Tablespaces restore takes quite too long

I doubt that the concept for a tablespace restore includes reading all other tablespace blocks of the backup image.For me if i restore only a tablespace which is some 10% of the whole database the restore should consider that.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Incremental backup of LOBS

Incremental backup of db2 should do INCREMENTAL backup of Large Objects (Blobs, Clobs etc). I am referencing this two limitations: 1. If a table space contains long field or large object data and an incremental backup is taken, all of the long fie...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Schema Transport in PureScale

Add Schema Transport Support in PureScale. Allow ESE to PS and PS to ESE across codepage transport at the schema level.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Table space page size during Redirected Restore

Hi,I kindly request for having the ability to change the table space page size during a redirected restore operation.Thanks
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry to overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations is required.

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry is required which overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations to a defined value, because for data center operations any Load operation is critical.DB2_LOAD_NONRECOVERABLE_OVERRIDE=COPY YES USE TSM and DB2_LO...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward to subsecond (ms, ns)

Rollforward to a timestamp with the following format YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnnn
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Pause an online DB2 LUW backup

We would like the ability to pause an online backup in DB2 LUW, then resume it later. Although I selected Linux for the operating system, I would like to see if available on Unix and Windows also.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

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