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My votes: High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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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

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

Support of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for automated HADR(with TSA)

Customers are able to deploy a pair of virtual machines(VMs) from the Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and configure a Db2 HADR database pair between the two VMs. They can then furthermore configure HADR automation with TSA via the db2haicu utility. The...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

db2pd command to report exact operation that causes HADR replay only window

Currently only "Replay only window is active" is reported in db2diag.log, but not the detailed information about the operation that causes the replay only window, such as exact DDL, reorg, runstats, and etc. statements.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve HADR standby replay performance

a)HADR replay master contends with replay worker on queue, and lots of latch contention were observed.b)HADR replay has IO performance issue. Lots of random IOs were observed, and there should be some sort of prefetch IO to improve performance.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP Performance: Incremental and Delta backups should not have to read all tablespace pages.(RIMS)

Backup currently reads ALL pages in the tablespace to examine the pageLSN in order to determine if a page should be included in the image. This is poor for performance, customer want this addressed using a 21th century approach.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Standby node with higher version

When a Db2 version upgrade is requiered, currently it should be done in the active node. However, there are some scenarios when preparing a standby with a higher version is easier. For example, when migrating to new servers, with higher OS is bett...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Avoid the database, configured in HADR, on primary side experience an outage when the database on the standby side experience any problem.

We use Db2 pureScale in many environments using POWER System. For our disaster recovery strategy we use HADR for each database between sites. In a specific situation of when some standbys databases experienced HADR_FLAGS = STANDBY_RECV_BLOCKED, re...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Multiple hadr standbys in ASYNC mode

At present HADR claims to replicate to multiple standbys. While technically true this is practically false. Since all standbys past the 1st one must be in SUPERASYNC once the additional standbys 'glitch' up they stop processing logs and never proc...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration