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pureScale

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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 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 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 6 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...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under 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 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Purescale performance with the MTU 1500 vs 9000 threshold on newer adapters

Our network team went through a large upgrade ofthe network switches. They ran into issues with the Purescale product and the supported components: At what point will IBM support an MTU of 9000 if indeed PureScale is indeed layed out for the long ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

A way can backup and restore pureScale instance

Currently an user is running a pureScale cluster, when all of the SAN disks(including the disk where instance path is on) were corrupted, he has to do the following to recovery the cluster: 1) replacing the corrupted disks 2) re-install and setup ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CREATE TABLESPACE or CREATE TABLE to have MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale

We want to be able to have tablespace use MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale just like the mainframe.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

db2stop re-confirmation command option

This is an enhancement request to incorporate a reconfirmation message before stopping a Db2 instance in standalone, HADR or in pureScale environments. The reason for the ask is to avoid DBA's or users typing db2stop instead of db2top by mistake. ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Multi Temperature Storage support for pureScale

Alter tablespace using STOGROP is not currently supported in a pureScale environement. The request is relieving this restriction.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Vmotion support for pureScale

Currently State Farm uses Vmotion 5.5 in their VMware environment, which enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime in their VMware environment. PureScale currently does not suppor...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration