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Online Backup compatability improvements request.

DB2 LUW still has a numerous commands/statements which are not supported with the ONLINE backup; (and there is no progress through the years):http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.ha.doc/doc/c0021554.htmlhttp://...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog.

DB2 doesn't allow viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog (like V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION in Oracle). The current workaround is:1) Execution of offline db2dart 2) OR the online INSPECT.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic bad pages' repair on Primary DB in HADR environment.

In HADR env. which is running the primary and the standby database(s), when a bad page will appear in the Primary database – DB2 will be able to identify and repair the bad page, while the recovery can be easily based on the good copy of the pag...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER the database into the Alternate location.

We have a lot of cases when we need to RECOVER the database to the alternate location/paths. The RECOVER command doesn't support the relocation of the database.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Kind of db2iauto for HADR

In the same way db2iauto starts instance once the server is rebooted, the HADR should restart also automatically. Actually, when server is rebooted, the instance is started but the HADR starts to be desynchronized.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Support for <a> tag in Cognos report specification version 15.0

Cognos Analytics does not support the usage of <a> tag within the rich text item. This would be useful to show OpenPages application's data content as some of the data may have hyperlinks embedded in them. If <a> tag is supported, then...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support for Ragged Hierarchies on MapBox maps.

There are times when geospatial data has multiple levels of detail e.g. WHO reported Covid-19 data on country level in most countries, but in USA, China, Canada and Australia the same data had state level information. It would be great if Cognos A...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 member must stay up during SCA rebuild failure, for reliability

see issue TS002525622: Db2 DS member down during rebuild SCA ABEND=S04F During rolling disaster tests, we noticed that during a SCA rebuild structure failure, the db2 who owns the rebuild also went down. This behaviour seems to contradict with...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration