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DB2 ALSM support for HADR environment

From 11.5.4 ,we have ALSM feature for production deployment however it has restriction for HADR environments. If we have that feature to HADR too then all oldest application handle can be forced off .
about 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Delivered

db2ReadLog api: position using timestamp

Hi, Currently db2ReadLog api gives us the record based on LRI values. We need to pass LRI range(start LRI and end LRI) to the api to get db2 records. There is no other way to get the records using the api. It would be good, if we can query the log...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Replication 1 Delivered

Ubuntu 18.04TLS Support on IBM DB2

Ubuntu 18.04TLS is not supported currently on any of the Db2 streams. Ubuntu 16 LTS has end of support in April 2021. With dependency on IBM DB2, we are unable to upgrade those client environments to Ubuntu 18LTS putting the production environment...
over 3 years ago in Db2 11 Delivered

Checksum values for DB2 Install files in Fix Central and Passport Advantages sites

Vendor supplied checksum values are required to validate the authenticity of the binaries downloaded from the vendor sites.As of now, we do have checksum values for few of the Web, Java components and we do need similar features for DB2 binaries a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Delivered

db2adutl performance

When we are deleting logs in TSM every week, we encounter very poor performance for deleting > 1000 logs for each DB2 partition. There are 131 DB2 partitions. Deleting the same amount of logs with dsmc del . . . . . works much faster. We assume...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered

Avoid Single point of failure for Db2's critical files

If the critical files of Db2 damage, e.g. by erroneously deletion, file system corruption Db2 will no longer be available (#usable). Since some of the critical files are permanently updated a restore of the critical files does solve the problem. A...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Improve performance of SET INTEGRITY command through use of (intra partition) parallelism

SET INTEGRITY does currently not make use of intrapartition parallelism. SET INTEGRITY (with "checked" option) for large tables and/or tables with many foreign key and/or check constraints consumes a large amount of time while the table is not acc...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Delivered

Python 3.8 and Django 3

Hi We're a Python shop as well as a DB2 shop. We need support for the IBM DB2 driver for Python 3.8. In addition to this, we use Django for our webapps; we develop our own web apps for managing our supercomputers. That being said, as Django 2.2 is...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Provide source IP connection information on db2diag.log for all cases of SQL30082N events

Db2 not always provide the source IP connection information on db2diag.log entries, where authentication failures happens - SQL30082N This is a regular footprint on db2diag entries, when an authentication fails to connect to the database. 2020-04-...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Delivered