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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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Add DB2 LUW "TP Monitor client" special register attributes to the DB2 Log files

This is related to a Declined requirement for Q Replication which would require this data to be in the DB2 Log Files;ID: 71069 - Headline: Suppress Deletes using the DB2 LUW "TP Monitor client" special register attributes Medtroinc would like to h...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Automatic bad pages' repair on Standby DB in HADR environment.

In HADR env. which is running the primary and the standby database(s), when a bad page will appear in the Standby database – DB2 will be able to identify and repair the bad page, while the recovery can be (theoretically) easily based on the good...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

New HADR with SQL apply

Design a new HADR option / way of working : The log records sending works on the same principle that the actual HADR but the apply of the changes is like the apply task of the SQL / QReplication.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP/RESTORE should provide support for external objects.(RIMS)

when customer archives backup images (they have to keep 7 years worth of trade data), they must manually archive non-data objects (such as function/procedure definitions, libraries, and other things required for the database to run properly). � ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

RESTORE fails with SQL30082N RC=3 if an LDAP database with the same name already exists in Active Directory(RIMS)

Restore fails with 'SQL30082N Security processing failed with reason '3' ('PASSWORD MISSING')' when there's still a database with the same name in the Windows Active Directory but on another server.The restore completes when the other db is uncata...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP/RESTORE should support parallelcompression of backupstripes when using native compress option(RIMS)

Headline Cont...(thisiscurrentlysingle-threadpertablespace).Description -currently, Backup will fetch from multiple tablespaces using multiple concurrent prefetcher sub-agents. However when Backup Compression is enabled, data is forced through Bac...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Database sharding

The customer is considering to deploy multi-active system cross multiple sites, the distance among sites might be more than 1000km. The data could be distributed by hash, and rarely cross site data access by transaction/query. DPF might be a good ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

ROLLBACK & CRASH RECOVERY percentage complete display(RIMS)

When a session is forced or rolled back, provide a facility to report percent complete (work done divided by total work). Also required for crash-recovery. It is currently impossible to determine how much longer a rollback or crash-recovery will t...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Torn Data Page Handling / Recovery(RIMS)

We have hit torn page recovery (CBIT inconsistency) issues from time to time. As ext3/4 block I/O occurs in 4K units we feel we are at risk on any tablespace above a 4K page size. We would like to discuss options to improve DB2's handling of parti...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration