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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2
Components pureScale
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

DB2 to support multiple network interfaces of a system in a HACMP/PowerHA cluster(RIMS)

Background of this requirement is the issue with db2nodes.cfg having IP/hostname defined different from the systems hostname, which is common definition for many customers in HACMP or PowerHA cluster. Db2nodes.cfg for the database instance gets it 'own' service address, which is moved over to the other cluster node in case of a takeover. This works pretty well during normal processing, but not for the upgrade of an instance! The upgrade process requires the nodes hostname to be stored in db2nodes.cfg. Every other IP or hostname is regarded as remote, and thus the db2iupgrade fails. Changing the db2nodes.cfg for the upgrade process is not the right way, especially if so many (several hundred) systems/instances have to be upgraded. So customer requires that DB2 supports multiple 'local' IPs/hostnames to be stored in the db2nodes.cfg. For a single partition database, every entry (there is only one!) should be regarded as local, because it has to be! Otherwise the instance could not have been used. For a DPF database the 'local' entry could be flagged, if it differs from the systems hostname. Using an alias name for the system hostname, defined in the etc/hosts file to be identical on all cluster nodes, is not an option as well, as the cluster system administration requires to have a definitions including the hosts file identical all nodes of the cluster.

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