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Search results: Db2

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Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration
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DB2-LUW: Enable online backup of standby db

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I have heard this multiple times: Why can't we do an online backup of the standby database (to disk, to TSM, to Commvault, to ....)? We want to avoid extra IO and CPU on the primary. Our standby does not look overloaded. At least an online backup ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Backup on HADR Standby

Backup consume resources in primary. If we offload backup in Standby then Primary can be easily served for application use alone . Currently we were able to take backup only in primary and all workloads along with Backup utilise CPU resources .If ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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

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 ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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

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