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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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Support for minimally logged indexes on HADR-enabled databases

Provide ability to create non-logged (or minimally logged) indexes on HADR-enabled databases such that they get created on the standby databases as well.
about 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...
over 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.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

HADR PS MEM restore

背景:HADR+PS环境,主端ps的mem0节点宕机无法恢复,利用新设备以mem0的身份加入集群问题:当新设备以mem0身份加入时报错,由于集群拓扑结构发生变化数据库处于inconsistent状态,所以无法将MEM0重新加入,当拓扑结构发生变化时不应该影响数据库的一致性;
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under 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

Tablespace reports rollforward pending after an HADR takeover report success

Banco do Brasil built a DR site and deployed a DB2 Purescale with HADR between these sites.HADR is in peer state. Then customer perform a takeover to switch HADR roles between sites.After the takeover finished successfully we tried to activate the...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Manually confirm whether to switch before TSAMP+HADR automatically switches

In the TSAMP+hadr environment, in the event of a failure, TSAMP will directly switch the active/standby relationship. Sometimes, it may solve the A machine failure recovery time, especially the AB machine transmits a large transaction log. Therefo...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow currently commited isolation mode on HADR

When reads on standby is enable, allow currently committed isolation mode on HADR.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

db2haicu and the Wirelistener

If the WireListerner is required for JSON/MongoDB, DB2haicu should support it instead of making a TSAMP policy outside of db2haicu.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Kind of db2iauto for HADR

In the same way db2iauto starts instance once the server is rebooted, the HADR should restart also automatically. Actually, when server is rebooted, the instance is started but the HADR starts to be desynchronized.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration