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Monitoring

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Activity event monitor and CGTT

Usually section actuals after being prepared with explain_from_activity and db2exfmt has a section called “Runtime statistics for objects Used in Access Plan”. This section has valuable information for the problem analysis. If a Statement uses Cre...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Db2 exporter

Kindly help build Db2 native and/or Sql based exporter. This exporter should be developed in such a way that It should be non-intrusive & no performance impact to the databases which are being monitored, Similar to nosql db metrics exporter av...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Suitable Replacement for SNAP_GET_APPL_V95

SNAP_GET_APPL_V95 got introduced with Db2 9.5 but is deprecated in actual versions/releases. MON_GET_CONNECTION is declared as the replacement for this ‘old’ procedure, but the scope of the replacement procedure is different! Thus MON_GET_CONNECTI...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Future consideration

An analog of LOG_HADR_WAIT_TIME monitor element is needed at the agent level

Sometimes it's very useful to understand HADR influence on the transaction performance. We do have a couple of related elements - LOG_WRITE_TIME and LOG_HADR_WAIT_TIME at the whole database level, but their values can't help us to understand, if H...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Add support to update "Last Login Time" of Linux OS for Db2 LUW

Db2 LUW on Linux OS only use auth and password module of PAM to validate and change password, but it didn't record the "Last Login Time" for the users on the Linux OS, so we don't know if the users are actually using the Db2 for data query. And th...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Protect against DOS when user has password expired

Hi team, recently we had open a support case TS004670019 on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002TrWNRAA3/1222wd-db2-taking-too-long-to-login We had a situation with an automatic process that got it's password expired and begun failing t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

DB2 listener not activated after DB process killed by OS and restarted automatically by TSA in HADR environment

We had DB2 HADR primary/standby configuration. Due to one application job,DB2 consumes all memory and OS killed db2sysc process. db2 restarted automatically by TSA but listener wasn't activated . There was no evidence in logs which process was usi...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Event monitor creation, write to table option should allow to specify a tabkespace into which ALL the new tables should be created in

Create event monitor write to table option will create new tables.All the new tables are defined in a tablespace which db2 chooses. I want an option to specify a tablesapce name, in which ALL the new tables should get created in.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration