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Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
about 9 hours ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Submitted

DB2 12.1 support for rhel8

As the vendor for both database and RHEL OS, I would really expect the customary support for RHEL8 and RHEL9 for db2 LUW 12.1. This is a huge inconvenience for those of us not on 11.5.9. If we need to upgrade we need to go across all of our server...
1 day ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
4 days ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Under review

Add a "CREATE TENANT LIKE" functionality

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. For ease of use and the ability to spin up seperate tenants fast, a statement like "CREATE TENANT <new tenant name> LIKE <existin...
12 days ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Under review

Make SET TENANT available in connect procedure

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. The tenant feature is ideal to replace small personal databases for developers where many may have the same sets of tables and also in the ...
12 days ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Under review

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
16 days ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Under review

Pacemaker on Db2 Linux HADR - ability to add more than 1 network interface as a resource

We use 2 network interfaces in our Db2 server setup: one public and a private used by the HADR-traffic. Other servers even have more interfaces. I'd like to be able to add them as a pacemaker resource.
23 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Pacemaker to be able to start instance on new Standby post network isolation incident

Hi IBM, we had a network isolation between between Primary and Standby database servers for 5 minutes. Pacemaker promoted Principal Standby DB to be primary and killed the process on old Primary DB. Network isolation has passed but Pacemaker didn'...
23 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Integrated Cluster solution on AIX: Move from TSA to PowerHA

DB2 has moved from TSA (Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms) to Pacemaker as integrated clustering solution on Linux. We use TSA in production, and we think this is a wise move, as TSA is not robust and manageable enough for a dependable s...
24 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 5 Submitted

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 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted