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High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery

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DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Read On Standby (ROS) Access during Upgrade process LUW

During the version upgrade of Db2 LUW, the standby (ROS enabled) needs to be brought down - during the upgrade: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization I wou...
5 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Installation & Upgrade 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

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

purescale support HADR ROS

System: DB2 LUW pureScaleActor: User needing HADR read of standby on pureScale environmentNow db2 V10.5 and above had provided HADR component for pureScale but missed Read of standby feature. Description: some customer had used HADR ROS feature on...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Future consideration

Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 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

Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to execute Pacemaker status and version commands as a non-root user

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user to check the status and get the version: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion Pacemaker commands require root access to execute. A DB2 DBA may not have root access to execute Pacemak...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration