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DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

ROCE Virtualization support for DB2 pureScale

ABC (Agriculture Bank of China) are going to deploy lots of pureScale clusters, and each cluster does not demand lots of CPU/MEM/IO resources. Customer wish to deploy pureScale clusters on VMWare virtual machines to save physical machines and most...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

CPA005 Transaction Rejected in FTM Base but Accepted by Gateway in PFS layer (Refer WorkItem Work Item 114946)

During AFT application development, we found that FTM Base rejected transactions where getting accepted by Gateway in PFS i.e. FTM Base Rejections are not considered by Gateway for updating a payment's status. We raised a RTC defect 114946 for thi...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to delete and re-create cluster manager domain via db2haicu as part of major Db2 version upgrade.

Currently, when performing a version upgrade to Db2 V11.1 it is necessary (from a support perspective) to delete the TSAMP Domain and re-create it.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement of TPCIP task when using DDF

When running source and target jobs on different LPARs, we need to use a TCPIP job even when we choose DDF as the connection type. We need that Cloning Tool uses DDF to run queries and commands on objects of the target datasharing without the obli...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

File based monitors

Client requirement is to make file limit checking. We can go with transaction limit, making number of days 0. It works, but it is impossible to make this monitor overrideable (tried changing risk error code with no effect). Also, next to suspendab...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

Online Change of CF_MEM_SZ should be online

It's not possible to change CF_MEM_SZ without stopping DB2 pureScale instance. If you want to add a database or increase memory usage to improve performance, it's not possible without downtime. pureScale should be highly available, but it's not wi...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

remove the requirement of setting DB2INSTANCE before entering/exiting maintenance mode as root

Starting from v11.1.3.3, the user wants to enter / exist maintenance mode as root user, s/he has to export DB2INSTANCE before the db2cluster command: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t00...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration