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Search results: Db2

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Developing and support for the c7i instance type in DB2 Purescale solution on AWS

The maximum number of EBS volumes (up to 30) that can be attached to current c6i instances that is supported with DB2 Purescale on AWS. The new c7i instance type offers support for up to 128 EBS volumes, which aligns perfectly for enhanced storage...
12 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Reads on Standby on DB2 BLU

Customer would like Reads on Standby when using HADR for Column-organized tables (BLU) . This way customer can split specifics workload between Primary and Standby. It's an old DB2_HADR_ROS restriction that should already be "fixed" in newer DB2 r...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Reduce likelihood of log disk full without increasing log primary

LOAD and CREATE INDEX and idle transactions with log volume can easily cause log disk full situation when other concurrent frequently committing transactions fill up active log space.
over 7 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

ALSM full mirror log support

Today, ALSM only extract once from primary log path. If mirror log path gets used, ALSM does not extract on mirror log path.
5 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Improve Standby Replay Performance

In our environment, the replay on the standy database is not able to keep up with the speed at which the PRIMARY is able to process data. Our replay gaps often exceed 100 GB, and this means that any failover would be delayed. We use HADR for high ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

Allow updates to HADR Standbys

Allow for updates to be issued on HADR standbys like Informix allows. Here is a extract from the informix manuals: You can enable applications connected to secondary servers to update database data. If you enable write operations on a secondary se...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration