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Provide Backup Size Info In History FIle

Db2 LUW Doesn't provide Backup Image Size that was taken . Please add this info to history file along with location of backup image
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Delivered

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Delivered

Reduce likelihood of log disk full without increasing log primary

LOAD and CREATE INDEX and idle transactions with log volume can easily cause log disk full situation when other concurrent frequently committing transactions fill up active log space.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered

Allow configuration to abort Db2 restore if tablespace errors occur

Today, Db2 Restore can continue with a subset of tablespaces if e.g. same tablespaces fail to acquire containers. In the end of roll forward completes, but some tablespaces did not complete and remain in 'storage definition pending' and need to ha...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Delivered

Improve Standby Replay Performance

In our environment, the replay on the standy database is not able to keep up with the speed at which the PRIMARY is able to process data. Our replay gaps often exceed 100 GB, and this means that any failover would be delayed. We use HADR for high ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Delivered

Db2 V11.1 .x.x pureScale for support of Power 9

TOSHIBA MEMORY is a biggest customer of Db2 V10.5 pureScale on Power8 for their MES system named SIView in Japan. They are running 5 pureScale instances for each 5 current plants.In 2019, They will launch their new plant and have to build another ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Db2 LUW support on RHEL 9

Please support RHEL 9 on v11.5 and vNext. RHEL 9 was released in May 2022 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for RHEL 8 is May 2024 but it takes time for us to package, test and deploy new Db2 modpacks...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

IBM DB Python Driver: Support for wheels and smaller module

It would be great to have some form of binary distribution of this Db2 driver for Python. It would simplify building Docker containers and help reducing the container size and setup time.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Delivered

Extend Db2 AWS S3 Support to Include Log Archiving

Db2 added support for backup / restore / load copy to / from Amazon S3 and IBM Cloud ObjectStore some time ago. The one thing missing from this as an overall solution is to allow archive logs to be written to object storage, in the same way as the...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Delivered

Remove per-tablespace size limitation for v11.1 and v11.5 community edition

Currently if we restore a database backup that was taken on a higher edition of Db2 into Developer-C, it fails with SQL1139N, even if it is fully less than 100GB. There are two workarounds for this: Set a MAX for all table spaces before taking th...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 4 Delivered

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