Hello, I need to extract data for 2-3 tables, but the only backup image I have is online. Is there a way to skip the roll forward and connect to the database?
Thx

You must have the logs that were active during the on-line backup. Do you use the "include logs" option when taking the backup?

The image is several months old so I don't know if the "include logs" option was used. Is there a way to check?

Try "db2ckbkp -H"

db2ckbkp shows:
Includes Logs -- 0

So, logs are not included.


Any other option to get data from this backup image?

No, if you have an online backup image without the transaction logfiles it is useless, sorry.

What you can do is to restore this online image and then use db2dart /ddel option to dump the data into ASCII files. You need to supply several parameters including the table/tablespace id which you can obtain from running db2dart <db name>. ddel option doesn't dump all column data types (it will warn which columns it will not be able to dump). If you're unable to get the data using db2dart or don't have the DDL to recreate the tables, then you can try opening a pmr to get help (may be a billable service...)

Correction: db2dart /ddel will dump data into delimited ASCII (DEL format)