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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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Reorg a data partitioned table with non partitioned indexes online

Currently a data partitioned table with non partitioned indexes can not be reorged online, even the latest V11.1.2.2 can not do this.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT REORG

Please add function VARCHAR_FORMAT in the WHEN statement of a REORG.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

DB2 Pacemaker upgrade break cluster when Red Hat Satellite is not accessible

Hello, My idea is to add some check if Red Hat satellite is visible into db2installPCMK because if it's not, update will break cluster and DB2 will be unusable until visibility is fixed and db2installPCMK is executed again. As workaround you shoul...
7 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

HADR Standby logarchiving

Hi, HADR standby databases do not archive log files. the recommendation is a shared filesystem or similar. Shared filesystems adds complexity in failure situations. This request is to enable the functionalty of logarchiving on the standby database.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Allow federation like access to HADR RoS

Implicit have federation like access to HADR standby would help application developers to take advantage of RoS standby feature to offload workload.Same connection, same authorization, but with STANDBY.. accessing the tables on standby would be cr...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query catalog tables and administrative views in stand by

There is an option called Read On Standby (ROS) that allows to connect and perform selects on the standby role of a HADR cluster. However, this is focussed to business tables. I propose the capability to perform selects on the standby but just on ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Finer granularity of configuration parameters

Many configuration settings are currently at the whole level of granularity. 1) Similar to 'use' privilege at the tablespace level, it would be helpful to be able to grant 'load' privileges at the tablespace level too. Currently it is a database-l...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Db2 HADR PEER status enhancement

We would like IBM to look into adding an additional HADR state once the database comes into PEER. In Db2 10.5, there is an additional parameter, STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP that can hold large amounts of transactions that need to be replayed due to th...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Improve ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE REORG Process to not Invalidate Application Packages

24x7 Application in DB2 LUW using packages. REORG of a large table is an issue. The best approach would be to use AMT but the rename causes all application packages to be mark invalid. This does not work for a 24x7 application. Online REORGE proce...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

fencing agent handle promptly and avoid server reboot when it noticed minor lib changes at OS end

Dear IBM Thank you much for such great imitative on HA Auto failover feature on DB2 LUW. We have implemented PACEMAKER with fencing technology on huge number of DB2 servers. Following are the challenges which needs to be addressed and improve the ...
10 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration