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Search results: Db2

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Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
over 10 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Need to support inplace reorg on partitioned table with global indexes

This is critical in a 2 sense; 1) Performance The customer has many range-partitioned table with global indexes and most of them left unreorganized because INPLACE REORG on Inplace reorg on range-partitioned table with a global index is not suppor...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Optimizer does not use HIGH2KEY/LOW2KEY for columns with COLCARD 1

Optimization issue if a business_time_oriented table has only one row. In syscat.columns the content of the business_time columns are detected (high2key, low2key) but the value can not be found in the distribution statistics. This leads default fi...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
about 8 years ago in Db2 3 Delivered

Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Possibility to influence the naming of NSDs in a Db2-managed pureScale installation

We run a regular cloning of a Db2 pureScale to provide a time consistent copy which is used for BI/DWH purposes.This is done via storage features, in our case with HDS (Hitachi) Shadow Image (similar to IBMs FlashCopy). We don't have any issues to...
7 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted