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Db2

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TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP Performance: Incremental and Delta backups should not have to read all tablespace pages.(RIMS)

Backup currently reads ALL pages in the tablespace to examine the pageLSN in order to determine if a page should be included in the image. This is poor for performance, customer want this addressed using a 21th century approach.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

HADR PS MEM restore

背景:HADR+PS环境,主端ps的mem0节点宕机无法恢复,利用新设备以mem0的身份加入集群问题:当新设备以mem0身份加入时报错,由于集群拓扑结构发生变化数据库处于inconsistent状态,所以无法将MEM0重新加入,当拓扑结构发生变化时不应该影响数据库的一致性;
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Generate SW ID Tag for Trial Installs

Activating a license with db2licm generates a SW ID Tag, which can then be recognized by an ILMT software scan for license reporting.Currently a trial edition is not generating a SW ID Tag, so they cannot be discovered by LMT.As it is important fo...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ----...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Allow better monitoring of DB2 Thread/Connection types

Currently there are various ZPARMs to "control" thread management (CTHREAD,MAXDBAT,CONDBAT,IDFORE,IDBACK,etc). These ZPARMS are upper bound limits of the number of each type of thread/connection that DB2 is configured with. There is very little in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Application Object Space Limit Monitoring - Batch Alerting

We currently have an in-house written tool (in Rexx) that batch reports daily on any of our application objects across our Db2 Z/OS production estate that might be approaching theoretical dataset size / partition limits; so that we can pro-activel...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

Read access during offline backup

Read access during offline backup
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Multi Temperature Storage support for pureScale

Alter tablespace using STOGROP is not currently supported in a pureScale environement. The request is relieving this restriction.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration