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Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

ROLLBACK & CRASH RECOVERY percentage complete display(RIMS)

When a session is forced or rolled back, provide a facility to report percent complete (work done divided by total work). Also required for crash-recovery. It is currently impossible to determine how much longer a rollback or crash-recovery will t...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP Performance: Incremental and Delta backups should not have to read all tablespace pages.(RIMS)

Backup currently reads ALL pages in the tablespace to examine the pageLSN in order to determine if a page should be included in the image. This is poor for performance, customer want this addressed using a 21th century approach.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP/RESTORE should provide support for external objects.(RIMS)

when customer archives backup images (they have to keep 7 years worth of trade data), they must manually archive non-data objects (such as function/procedure definitions, libraries, and other things required for the database to run properly). � ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Text Search Synonym Table(RIMS)

Have a way to automatically create this table without typing this. Perhaps a 'gui' or a way to export from an Excel spreadsheet. Anything except to manually type in from a command line. Jeff Mousty State Farm during the Frequency Call with Tim Vin...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Range-Partitioning support for dimensional ranges (not to be confused with MDC)(RIMS)

Customer has use-cases for defining range-partitions across dimensions and not just columns. Currently, DB2 only supports ranges defined across columns (see Discussion section for an example).
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Synchronize HISTORY file with the TSM server object list.(RIMS)

Since the objects on the TSM server are expired remotely, DB2 is not aware of this because the local HISTORY file does not sync with TSM. What we are requesting is a method to synchronize DB2's HISTORY file with the TSM server object list. This wi...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Method to determine ETA to completion of Load copy-image replay(RIMS)

There is currently no method to determine an ETA to completion of the Load 'COPY YES' copy-image replay on Standby or during Rollfwd-Recovery. This is especially important in HADR scenario because while the copy-image is being replayed on Standby,...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow customers ability to limit number LOAD utility errors(RIMS)

Customer has situations where LOAD utilities attempt to insert large numbers of duplicate records. This results in the log files filling up and stopping all DB2 requests until the entire LOAD is rolled back. In this customer's case the rollback(s)...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DPF IXF Format(RIMS)

On DPF only, you can't Load a multi-partition table from an exported file with an IXF format. We've run into this a couple of times when we had to save off data before dropping/recreating a table. I can understand that there may be something in th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

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