Escalation due to prohibition by COPY-pending status

If the target space is in COPY-pending status (and the installation option ESCALATE=YES),

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escalates a FULL NO, FULL AUTO, or CHANGELIMIT request to a full request.

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will escalate to full copies in the following situations:

  • When no backups exist after you have run the DB2 MODIFY utility.

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Escalating-incremental-copies-to-full-copies

  • If the table space is currently unrecoverable because you ran a LOAD or REORG utility with LOG NO specified. Even if you turn off the COPY-pending status indicator, which these utilities turn on,

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    detects the situation by examining the SYSIBM.SYSCOPY rows.
  • After you have executed a CHECK DATA utility with the LOG NO option. You must run a full image copy because this utility does not set the modified-page indicators when you specify LOG NO.

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    cannot determine which pages have actually changed, so it cannot produce a valid incremental copy.

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issues messages and return codes as shown in Escalating-incremental-copies-to-full-copies in these COPY-pending cases. The same table also shows how

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processes an incremental request of this type when the installation option ESCALATE=NO.

 

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