Hello Justin,

Thanks for your help.  The arsdbarc folder is stored under the ARS_DB2_ARCHIVE_LOGPATH registry key in Windows. This folder contains hundreds of LOG files which seems to be related to Archived Transaction logs of the db.

I'd like to know if I can delete this folder files.

Olivier BALTUS

Hi,

The CMOD instance is back up every night using the db2 backup command (offline). Is it safe to remove the content of the arsdbarc folder after the backup is taken? 

Thanks for your help,

Hello,

I have a beginner's question regarding db backups, and in particular with db2. 

Until now, I was using the arsdb tool to perform offline backups of the db2 database of the CMOD MP instance. Until I noticed that the LOGSTREAM directory of the db which, I believe, contains the transaction logs, was not cleaned as I thought by performing an offline backup.

I contacted IBM support for explanations, and they told me that it was not recommended to use arsdb to make backups, that it relied on a userexit function that was no longer supported since version 9. I am surprised that this important information does not appear clearly somewhere.

In the meantime, I will therefore use the backup function of db2. What do you think of my backup script?

net stop "OnDemand....."
db2 terminate
db2 deactivate db ARCHIVE
db2 backup db ARCHIVE to D:\Backup WHITHOUT PROMPTING
db2 activate db ARCHIVE
net start "OnDemand....."

Last but not least, could you please tell me if I can safely delete the files in the LOGSTREAM folder after doing a full offline backup?

Thanks

Hello

I was reading some documentation regarding distributed CMOD architecture where you have a library server and one or more object servers.
And a few questions came to mind for which I found no answer. Where should storage sets be defined? On the library server? Or on the Object Server? Or both?

I suppose that the main purpose of this type architecture is offloading the library server from the the load activities? And ARSLOAD is then executed on the Object Server? Am I right?

Thanks for your help,

Olivier

Hello,

I am planning an installation, and I'd like to know if external storage basically a NFS mount on the CMOD server can be used as storage for the Archive storage manager?

Thanks for your help

Thanks a lot. That is exactly what was looking for.  :) I owe you a drink.

Good morning,

We have a CMOD server running on Windows, and we would like to load the reports from the AS/400 directly to the CMOD Server. I know that we can transfer these reports from the iSeries world to the Windows server using file transfer protocols such as FTP, and then use ARSLOAD on the CMOD Windows server to ingest them. But, what if we want the "ingestion" to occur on the AS/400 side? Aside from installing an iSeries CMOD instance on the AS/400, what are the other options?

Thanks for your help,   

Olivier