Use cases
This chapter provides an overview about how IBM Db2 Mirror for i provides continuous availability for different planned and unplanned outages.
5.1 Planned outages
For a planned outage scenario such as performing hardware, operating system (OS), or application maintenance on the Db2 Mirror secondary node, Db2 Mirror replication can be suspended, which causes the primary node to track changes and the secondary node to block changes (if the planned maintenance affects the primary node, a Db2 Mirror role swap can be performed). After the ...