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Search results: Db2

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Extend the configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines for program DSNTRIN with APPLCOMPAT a

Program DSNTRIN give the ability to pass some configuration control statement for DB2-supplied-routines as per the doc: Configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines Configuration control statements supply the basic input for the DSNT...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Some SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection of the read only appplicationin the standby

SPDB use blow SQL in one of the application. those SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection ot eh read only applicaiton in the standby side. drop table、create table(include PARTITION BY RANGE)、drop indexã...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Automatic bad pages' repair on Primary DB in HADR environment.

In HADR env. which is running the primary and the standby database(s), when a bad page will appear in the Primary database – DB2 will be able to identify and repair the bad page, while the recovery can be easily based on the good copy of the pag...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Standby IDs should be

db2pd does not show corresponding STANDBY_ID on standby servers when using multiple standbys.For example: Invoking db2pd on the PRIMARY database shows the STANDBY_ID's (1=PRINCIPAL, 2 and 3 = AUX), invoking the db2pd on the related STANDBY's does ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

pureScale support HADR multiple standbys

It is a current limitation that in pureScale HADR can only support one standby. It is a requirement to be able to support more than one standbys, typically with one of the standby in the same data centre as the primary, and another standby in a re...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

After HADR takeover new HADR primary should be able to request archive logs from old HADR primary on behalf of HADR auxiliary (s) that require archive logs from old primary in order to rollforward.

After HADR takeover new HADR primary should be able to request archive logs from old HADR primary on behalf of HADR auxiliary (s) that require archive logs from old primary in order to rollforward. We have 3 node HADR Site1a Primary Site1b Standb...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

To relax DB2 primary group of instance naming restrictions

My organization has all the users and Groups on active directory. The groups on active directory always get prefixed by some characters which are in Upper case due to the type of group we are requesting. Also addition of this prefix add more chara...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

HADR SSL support for cipher configuration

Currently with v11.1 Mod4 Fixpack 4 there is no functionality to change the SSL cipher used to communicate between Primary and Standby. The DBM CFG parameters SSL_VERSIONS or SSL_CIPHERSPECS do not apply to HADR. HADR is hard coded to use TLS v1.2...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Compression of Primary Key Indexes with Version 10.1 FP 5

While doing some testing with, we noticed that when you create a table compressed, that ALL indexes automatically get compressed. We found out that we have the ability to specify "normal" indexes without compression, but you can not have an uncomp...
over 9 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Add an optional control to stop HADR when non-logged operation occurred on primary

Currently, if there were non-logged operation such as loading data into a table on HADR primary, the log replay will continue on standby and the HADR state is still peer. But that table on standby can't be accessed. The application may not work on...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration