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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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PureScale HADR to non PureScale HADR

Would like to be able to setup HADR support within a PureScale cluster to a non-PureScale cluster. Rob Lemeuix
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Future consideration

HADR: Enable ROS for all LOBs

At a customer site we tried to use read on standby for reporting. That way we hoped to be able to redirect the load which is caused by reporting away from the operational DB and machine. Test failed because of some LOB-columns which couldn't be al...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to execute Pacemaker status and version commands as a non-root user

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user to check the status and get the version: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion Pacemaker commands require root access to execute. A DB2 DBA may not have root access to execute Pacemak...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future 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.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT REORG

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

Add Booth Ticket Manager to Pacemaker/Corosync package in Db2

With V11.5, Db2 is now able to use PaceMaker & Corosync to provide cluster resource management. But missing is the Booth ticket manager. From RedHat "The Booth ticket manager is a distributed service that is meant to be run on a different phys...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

DSNAIMS IMSPlex compliance

In an IMSPlex environment with two clones (A and B), we noticed that, in case of clone A unavailability, DSNAIMS call to IMS transactions via OTMA fails. This happens because clone A is pointed statically via parameter xcf-ims-name; this parameter...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration