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Search results: Db2

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HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

DB2 LUW DBM CFG RQRIOBLK increase upper limit

When using DB2 LUW client to connect to the Z/os database using the IBM Datastage ETL tool the RQRIOBLK DBM parameter is limiting the packet size of data, this will happen with anyone who pulls data in any significant volumes using the DB2 Driver ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

BRMS Recovery Report - Missed Objects

We recently had an IBMi system that lost 2 disks in the same RAID set and lost the machine. We had to rebuild from BRMS tape and after the system was made available, users indicated data was incomplete. In researching, it appears there is no easy ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Federation to support Spark in Databricks platform

Our enterprise data lake has Spark in Databricks and have many projects/ applications waiting to access these datasets from datalake for their use cases, using Federation server Nicknames. We did a quick test in our lab for which we were able to c...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration
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SECURITY SSL for LDAP database directory entry

Merged
Large institutions mostly are using Windows on their client PCs and servers. These large institutions which are using Db2 are also normally using LDAP in Microsofts active directory to avoid that the user must catalog the Db2 servers and databases...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Change the "Pending Backup State" to NO when backup is done to /dev/null

There can be situations where customer wants to switch from circular logging to Archival logging and vice versa. Currently, when a switch from Circular Logging to Archive Logging is requested, Db2 sets the database state in "Backup Pending" state ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 7 Functionality already exists

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

DMC alert forwarding to Microsoft Teams

A Public/Federal customer requires the ability to forward DMC/database alerts to Microsoft Teams in the on-prem Cloud Pak for Data platform.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review