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SQL30200N was a result of duplicate detection of UOWID at DB2 zOS side.

Db2 got dump binary when receiving duplicated UOWID SQL30200N was a result of duplicate detection of UOWID at DB2 zOS side.The uniqueness of the UOWID is defined in DDM architecture document and DB2 zOS check it accordingly.DRDA, Version 2, Volume...
about 3 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
4 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Submitted

Restricted access at a database level quiesce to prevent database activation in order to perform exclusive access operations like offline backup/restore in a multi database instance.

In a multi database system especially when running applications on platforms like OpenShift or even application servers like WAS where applications reconnect very fast, it becomes very hard or even impossible to get exclusive access to a single da...
6 days ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
12 days ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Developing and support for the c7i instance type in DB2 Purescale solution on AWS

The maximum number of EBS volumes (up to 30) that can be attached to current c6i instances that is supported with DB2 Purescale on AWS. The new c7i instance type offers support for up to 128 EBS volumes, which aligns perfectly for enhanced storage...
22 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
25 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
26 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Fix for TS015399732 / KI DT365010

Hi, please, we would like to have a Fix for TS015399732 / known issue DT365010: RUNSTATS has SYSTABLES S row lock, and ALTER_TABLE X lock. REORG has SYSTABLES S row lock, and lock waits on ALTER_TABLE X lock. At the end of processing RUNSTATS has ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Submitted