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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

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 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 ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Possibility to filter requests in the Task Inbox

Filtering capability based on Primary Category and Tag/classification, to be able to differentiate recipe cycles (tags) in different data domains (categories) and artifacts.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add the capability to add artifacts directly from the category screen

Our users work a lot based on categories ("data assets"). So they add terms/rules under a certain category. That is their "home base". Now in order for them to add a term, they need to move to "Business terms" and add one - choosing as primary cat...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 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

Enable Primary Key & Foreign Key Support for all connections Especially for GBQ connection

We request an Enhancement to support Primary key and foreign key relationships in GBQ connection types. Currently this functionality is unavailable in v5.1.1, impacting our ability to maintain data integrity and enforce relationships in our Data l...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 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...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration