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pureScale

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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

Fix to enable pureScale support with Red Hat KVM on Power

There is a PCI Passthrough issue on Red Hat KVM that would probably not be fixed by Red Hat until V7.4 at the earliest. LTC has proposed an alternative approach to avoid the contention that pureScale is using PCI Passthrough to address.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

enable pureScale to support AD/VAS authentication and not require the presence of the instance owner id in /etc/password.

At Bank of America, we have strict standards and requirements for db2 authentication. We use Active Directory across the enterprise and use the vas tool from quest to access AD from the linux environment. We do not store passwords in /etc/password...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Remove timeout for member stop when applying fixpacks to pureScale

The installFixpack for pS automatically stops and starts the member or CF. But before stopping it waits for applications to finish their existing work and drain all connections on this member and start new work to other surviving members. If any a...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

pureScale async duplexing to secondary CF

CMB is planning to use GDPC in 2 sites which distance is about 50km. The round-trip response time is about 400 microseconds, so the delay on transfer to 2nd CF is too expensive.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

Change PureScale GPFS NSD Name at installation time

The Network Shared Disk (NSD) default names are created using the db2icrt command can't be changed at installation time. There is no stanza file to change the NSD default nomenclature.Our payment for our customers refers to unique "vgnames". This ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

pureScale Online node removal

Topic : Moving a DB2 member or a cluster caching facilityURL : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t0056896.html?lang=en It mentions about the procedure :To move the only DB2 member: 1) Stop t...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Functionality already exists

Eliminate the restriction of IB and RoCE mixture for db2iupdt in pureScale

We are promoting the Technical Partnership with Huawei in China, and make more customer use DB2 database with Huawei Hardware (FusionServer as High performance computer, and FusionCube as the use-as-box-open). In typical DB2 pureScale configuratio...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

pureScale tiebreaker "independent of SAN" used

State Farm would like the tiebreaker disk to be completely independent of what type of SAN is being used" Rob Lemeuix
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Online remove member

Request to support online member removal from pureScale
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration