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Avoid the database, configured in HADR, on primary side experience an outage when the database on the standby side experience any problem.

We use Db2 pureScale in many environments using POWER System. For our disaster recovery strategy we use HADR for each database between sites. In a specific situation of when some standbys databases experienced HADR_FLAGS = STANDBY_RECV_BLOCKED, re...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

A way can backup and restore pureScale instance

Currently an user is running a pureScale cluster, when all of the SAN disks(including the disk where instance path is on) were corrupted, he has to do the following to recovery the cluster: 1) replacing the corrupted disks 2) re-install and setu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

DB2_DMU_DEFAULT=IMPLICITLYHIDDENMISSING, if set at instance level then we should not need it to be specified again in import command just like 9.7 clients

We are facing an issue for version 11.1. FP5 where we are able to load the data into a table with a column in a table which has IMPLICITLY HIDDEN column, In the past we were able to run the import and not specified the column name and it has worke...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

DB2Z-Allow for EXCHANGE DATA function on Clone table to NOT put packages in VALID status of 'A'

We have processes that use the clone table feature to allow for non disruptive load operations. When we do the exchange data the packages on the primary table move to a VALID STATUS of 'A' when they had a status of 'Y' previously. This creates iss...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Add varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)

We are frequently moving data between MS-SQL server and Db2. When data are moved from Db2 to MS-SQL there are no issues. But when data are moved from MS-SQL to DB2 we have frequent problems with varchar and nvarchar data types for data types where...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Default of for read only for all select statements

As you might have noticed, the "for read only" clause of the select statement in DB2 is not widely known nor used. Most standards select statements going through the DB2 engine have the risk of becoming an ambiguous cursor with sub-optimal perform...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

db2pd command to report exact operation that causes HADR replay only window

Currently only "Replay only window is active" is reported in db2diag.log, but not the detailed information about the operation that causes the replay only window, such as exact DDL, reorg, runstats, and etc. statements.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Modify permissions on DB2/LUW installation directories

During installation and instance creation of DB2/LUW ESE (and AESE), the following directories are create as world writable (OTHER permissions of 777) without the sticky bit set: sqllib/db2dump/DIAG0000sqllib/db2dump/eventssqllib/tmpsqllib/uifsqll...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration