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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


Status Delivered
Workspace Db2
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2015
Merged idea

This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit DB24LUW-I-1018 Avoid Single point of failure for Db2's critical files.

SQLOGCTL.LFH.1 and SQLOGCTL.LFH.2 in different directories(RIMS) Merged

SQLOGCTL.LFH.1 contains very important log control file infos, and therefore has a redundant copy named SQLOGCTL.LFH.2 . However, both files always reside in the same directory. An option is needed, to configure a second directory/path, so that both versions of this file can be kept in different directories/filesystems and so to have additional redundancy = improved availability. Logfiles can be hold twice, by specifiying a 'MIRRORLOGPATH', but that's useless, if its control file 'SQLOGCTL.LFH.#' is not available. Currently, both copies of the SQLOGCTL.LFH file reside on the same directory.