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Resolution for error 9506 in data replication during DDL changes

In our environment we are using IIDR (CDC) to replicate data from various DB platforms (Source - Oracle, DB2 LUW, AS400, DB2 ZoS) and target the replicated data into Datastage Flat File agent. The data written into flat file will get matured every...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Connect to existing Docker Job to get inside Container

Ability for a User to connect or attach to existing none interactive Job from terminal, that User schedule by bsub, to get access inside Docker Container.This is to be able to troubleshoot from inside running Docker Container. This is critical fea...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Avoid informix instance restart after parameter DBCREATE_PERMISSION being changed.

Informix instance need to be restart once parameter DBCREATE_PERMISSION being changed. It will cause the downtime/business interruption every time user being add/remove. Request avoiding Informix instance restart after DBCREATE_PERMISSION paramete...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
over 6 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

avoid sort of imagecopy in recovery scenarios RFE 124061

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124061 We still had the sort work dd statements generated with 9 datasets each and Cyl,(900,900) but still jobs failed in certain cases when using DB2SORT (a...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

hostcache auto-delete function in the mbatchd restart

Dynamic hosts remain in the cluster unless you intentionally remove them.And the manual related to it is as follows.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=cluster-remove-dynamic-hostsSuppose we delete the hostcache file, not modify ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Always generate ALTER TABLE SQL for Identity Columns RFE 71287

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=71287 Could you please add a new parameter to Cloning Tool where it will always generate the ALTER TABLE Restart even if restart-valuie is not set in catalog. If a table wit...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

fix systemctl script to restart sbatchd

The root sbatchd crashes frequently in our cluster (and without anything useful in the log), but systemctl is not configured to restart the daemon. Please see the details in the related support case, but essentially we need to make it so this daem...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Unique DB2 Message To Indicate That GRECP and LPL Recovery Is Complete And There Are No More Objects Flagged As GRECP or LPL

We are using GDPS automation to drive our disaster recovery processes and we have been running into a number of problems with LPL and GRECP recovery due to contention during startup of data sharing groups. This in turn causes failures when MQ shar...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change SD behavior after a connection broken with SSM, in order to decide whether or not it is necessary to restart the application

Following multiple network issues in the GRID infrastructure, we observed that the SD decides each time to restart SSM after a broken connection even if there is no problem between the client and SSM: the workload continues to run and no broken co...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Delivered