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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Release the restriction of restoring and rollforward through a topology change in pureScale

After a change in topology that involves adding or dropping a member, you cannot perform rollforward recovery operations through the point where the topology change occurred;
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Change the "Pending Backup State" to NO when backup is done to /dev/null

There can be situations where customer wants to switch from circular logging to Archival logging and vice versa. Currently, when a switch from Circular Logging to Archive Logging is requested, Db2 sets the database state in "Backup Pending" state ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 7 Functionality already exists

DB2 Recovery Expert access Backup and Logs directly over Vendor Library

Currently when doing Reports with the DB2 Recovery Expert, access to Backup and Logfiles over the Vendor Library (in our Case Commvault) is done on the managed Database itself. This is causing a high Performance impact on the System (Disk, Cpu and...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1

Improved Db2 backup thread (db2bm and db2med) binding/distribution on NUMA systems

On a large NUMA systems with a very fast storage and a fast backup target memory affinity might affect backup time as well as the overall system performance during the activity. Currently, with the Db2's automatic thread NUMA binding (DB2_RESOURCE...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Allow to access a database during a pause in a roll forward

During a roll forward, it will be helpful to access the database in read mode in order to identify the point where to open the database. If it is not the desired point, then apply more logs, until find the desired point.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 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

db2 luw restore to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync()

db2 luw restore performance is very slow. The problem was identified and recommended solution is to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync() From: David Sciaraffa Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 6:57 PMTo: R...
about 6 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