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    Automate having 2 VIPs on the same server (Pacemaker)

    scneario:Db2 HADR/PacemakerROS (reads on standby enabled)VIP set for PrimaryVIP set for Standby (ROS) If a maintenance on standby is needed, the VIP from the Standby needs to be manually moved from the standby to the Primary (having both VIPs in t...
    6 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

    Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

    SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
    5 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

    Request for configuration parameter “HNAME_MAX_NUM” to limit the number of hname conditions in RES_REQ.

    In production environment, automated scripts (for example, Synopsys CDPL) generate very long RES_REQ strings with thousands of (hname!='hostX') conditions in the select clause, which has led to mbatchd/mbschd performance degradation and scheduling...
    6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

    Prompt to confirm the Takeover

    In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
    2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Needs more information

    Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

    It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
    2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

    Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

    The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information

    Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

    Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
    15 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

    Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

    In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
    18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

    Document that Currently Committed semantics is always enabled on column-organized tables.

    Product:Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows v11.5 & 12.1 Requirement:Currently Committed semantics is enabled on column-organized tables. This should be described in our Document.Here is a candidate. cur_commit - Currently committed configuration...
    19 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

    LSF to track and report IO usage per job

    Disk space is a valuable resource like memory or GPU/CPU/slots. Many IC design applications consume significant disk space when writing simulation results to disk. Tracking disk usage or I/O rate **PER JOB** will allow cluster administrators to mo...
    about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

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