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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 19, 2019

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Automatic Journaling of Access Paths

When journaling is started on a library, you can created inheritance rules which will cause journaling to start on objects of type *file, *dtaara, and *dtaq. When indexes are created over tables the object gets journaled (type = *file) but not the access path for the object. There is no provision to allow us to automatically cause an access path to be journaled. This does not make sense. Journaling the object header for an index or logical file, while helpful, does not really do much for you. I would like IBM to provide the ability to allow us to specify that objects with access paths start journaling automatically as they are created.


Use Case:

Access Paths rebuild time is a key determinant in how long it will take to recover a system in the event of a failure. The system uses SMAPP to try to keep the access path recovery to 50 minutes, but this is not good enough. We are implementing PowerHA and would like to have all access paths journaled so that in the event of an unplanned switch we're as up to date as possible. Without the ability to have access path journaling started automatically, we are left to having to remember to do this, implement this in our change management system (not sure if this can be done), or write our own utility to program to review access paths and determine if they're journaled. It does not seem consistent that all files and indexes can be journaled, but not their access paths.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 23, 2021

    IBM does not intend to provide a solution to this request at this time, so it is being closed. As mentioned earlier in the discussion, there are existing solutions for this request.

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 17, 2019

    The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM not implement this request. There are work-arounds as described in comments below.

    Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.

    For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac

    For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/

    Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 13, 2019

    50 minutes is the default for SMAPP, but you can reduce that time using CHGRCYAP.
    It would typically not be a best practice to implicitly journal every index in a library.
    For example, an index over a relatively small table that is used as a queue (such as some 3rd party applications do) is heavily updated, but the index is small so the recovery time will be trivial while journaling it will end up causing a lot of extra space in the journal.
    If you are going to explicitly journal indexes at all, a much better practice is to perhaps explicitly journal only larger critical indexes but use SMAPP to journal all others.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 22, 2019

    Joe, if you implement Quick-EDD/HA - Tools, you will not have to worry about this.
    https://www.syncsort.com/en/products/Data-Availability/Quick-EDD-HA

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