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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Improved Db2 backup thread (db2bm and db2med) binding/distribution on NUMA systems

On a large NUMA systems with a very fast storage and a fast backup target memory affinity might affect backup time as well as the overall system performance during the activity. Currently, with the Db2's automatic thread NUMA binding (DB2_RESOURCE...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Release the restriction of restoring and rollforward through a topology change in pureScale

After a change in topology that involves adding or dropping a member, you cannot perform rollforward recovery operations through the point where the topology change occurred;
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration

New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration