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Db2

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Parallel log file archival and retrieval

Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Full STMM support for BLU

Today SORTHEAP and SHEAPTHRES_SHR need to be set to a fixed value to run BLU.The STMM tuned adjustment don't need to be highly sophisticated. E.g. keeping 60/40 ratio for bufferpool/sheapthres_shr and adjust sortheap as ratio taking the amount of ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

LOAD to COMMIT extent allocation

LOAD is today a single transaction. It does not create much log volume, but LOAD might run long if lots of data need to be loaded. This can lead to log full disk situation, if concurrent transactions create a large log volume.The extent allocation...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Real global CGTT (not SESSION local)

SAP BW needs to materialize data into persistent (regular) tables to be able to access it from multiple session (connections). CGTT and DGTT in Db2 cannot be accessed from multiple sessions/connections. Therefore those temp tables that don't requi...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Allow federation like access to HADR RoS

Implicit have federation like access to HADR standby would help application developers to take advantage of RoS standby feature to offload workload.Same connection, same authorization, but with STANDBY.. accessing the tables on standby would be cr...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

COMMIT NOWAIT

COMMIT NOWAIT could be used to accelerate commit processing (releasing locks while log data not yet written to disk nor transferred to HADR standby) . There are applications that know how to restart their database transaction in case the transacti...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support for BLU tables

Trigger support is part of many replication technologies e.g.- ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE- trigger based Qrep- SAP zero downtime upgrade
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

TRANSFER OWNERSHIP for entire schema

During SAP system migration all objects in a schema need TRANSFER OWNERSHIP. This takes quite long (many minutes) for > 100.000 objects.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration