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Db2

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HADR Standby logarchiving

Hi, HADR standby databases do not archive log files. the recommendation is a shared filesystem or similar. Shared filesystems adds complexity in failure situations. This request is to enable the functionalty of logarchiving on the standby database.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

External Tables support on Windows

I went to use this marvelous feature on windows.. and for my surprise external tables are not implemented for this platform :-( (v11.5) Why ? Please, add support for external tables usage on windows hosts as well .
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Future consideration

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Activity event monitor and CGTT

Usually section actuals after being prepared with explain_from_activity and db2exfmt has a section called “Runtime statistics for objects Used in Access Plan”. This section has valuable information for the problem analysis. If a Statement uses Cre...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Future consideration

HADR: Enable ROS for all LOBs

At a customer site we tried to use read on standby for reporting. That way we hoped to be able to redirect the load which is caused by reporting away from the operational DB and machine. Test failed because of some LOB-columns which couldn't be al...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
30 days ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

HADR/Pacemaker for AIX

While HADR/Pacemaker for Linux is available, Pacemaker for AIX is not availabe and needed now to avoid a hold-up in our adoption of Db2 vNext.
9 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to use db2audit data in the DMC.

Please provide a way to store db2audit data in DMC and to easily view, use, and report on audit logs. Currently db2luw can only store and extract audit data, but there is no repository db and no way to use it. I hope DMC will have such a feature a...
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

DR Capability for DMC

Hello, We would like to have DR capability for DMC. So that, it would be helpful for us to monitor the DBs when there is a full or partial site failure.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration