The issue of transparent reroute of the connection when the IP address
gets moved is something we are working on (i.e. writing code to solve).

Ian wrote:

> Noons wrote:
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>> Blair Adamache <badamache@2muchspam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:<bk7qnv$igs$1@hanover.torolab.ibm.com>...
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>>> For more formal approaches, DB2 supports High Availability through
>>> the following packages / methods:
>>>
>>> HACMP on AIX
>>> Microsoft Cluster server on Windows
>>> Sun Cluster on Solaris
>>> Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris
>>> Heartbeat on Linux
>>> Steeleye on Linux
>>> Serviceguard on HP
>>
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>> Does the cost of all that extra stuff get added
>> to the TCO when comparing prices with products
>> that don't need all that jazz to do the same?
>>
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> HDR doesn't take care of failing over IP addresses, does it?
> What about automatically switching from backup to primary when
> one system goes down? (without rolling your own scripts to
> do the detection / failover).
>
> DB2 can do "HA" without the 3rd party HA products using log
> shipping. Granted, log shipping is primitive in comparison
> to HDR, but I think that it is closer in functionality than
> HACMP/MSCS/etc.
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