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Monitoring

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Ability to report Bufferpool contents(RIMS)

Ability to display contents of a Bufferpool to aid in performance-related investigations.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

In-memory metrics support for (container map reorg stats)(RIMS)

Customer would like to move away from Snapshot monitoring (they hit issues recently where Snapshot latches were holding up other work on the system) but cannot because some information is not yet available via in-memory metrics table functions. Cu...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

LIST INDOUBT TRANSACTIONS via an SQLsnapshot.(RIMS)

Currently, indoubt transactions can only be queried using a command line ''LIST INDOUBT TRANSACTIONS'. Customer requests an SQL snapshot method of returning this information (since using a command line option is too clumsy and hard to automate).
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Event Monitor Support for XA(RIMS)

State Farm has found the current Event Monitor doesnt produce reliable results and the lab has confirmed that this is true. In a future release they would want the Event Monitor to work with XA transactions without any restrictions and be able to ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Assign an event monitor to a threshold

Assign an event monitor to one to many thresholds by specifying an event monitor name during the threshold creation.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Adjusting column status in syscat.tables by synchronizing with column AVAILABLE SYSIBMADM.ADMINTABINFO

Customer mentions that tables which are delivering aSQL1477N should have an inoperative status. But theyhave status 'N' (for normal) insyscat.tables. The only way to retrieve the status of anSQL1477N is to select the column AVAILABLE inSYSIBMADM.A...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of View syscat.bufferpools to show alos stmm bufferpool sizes

When a bufferpool size is set to AUTOMATIC, -2 is being retrieved fromsyscat.bufferpools. But customer wants the current number of pages ofautomatic settings also displayed in syscat.bufferpools. Also a new column insyscat.bufferpools should indic...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate activity monitor

Add a table to the activity monitor for aggregating the data by statement text or section
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_TAB_INFO is sloooow and this has been the case for quite sometiome.

Extremely slow when used in a RP environment. Also used by check_upgrade which takes 7+ hours to run. Environment has 2million+ objects, 1 range per day for 3 years. Check_upgrade may be calling check for load pending which used admin_tab_info
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration