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Status Future consideration
Workspace Db2
Components pureScale
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 11, 2016
Merged idea

This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit DB24LUW-I-1721 DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion.

Allow upgrade of PureScale release or version without service outage Merged

In DB2 for LUW in a PureScale configuration when applying a FixPack it is possible to do it without stopping the whole PureScale by applying the fix in a rolling mode, node by node and activating the change at the end .

However this is not possible when performing an upgrade of release or version. In this case a complete shutdown of the cluster has to be done.

This is not acceptable for a 24x7 critical service.

The customer requests allowing the upgrades without needing to stop the whole PureScale cluster.