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DB2 - Problem description

Problem IC75027 Status: Closed

MEMORY LEAK IN APPLICATION HEAP WHEN SUPPORT FOR EXTENDED INDICATORS
FEATURE IS ENABLED

product:
DB2 FOR LUW / DB2FORLUW / 970 - DB2
Problem description:
When support for extended indicators feature is enabled, 
you may find memory leak in application heap. 
 
Extended indicators support is a new feature from 
V9.7 Fix Pack 2 and is by default enabled in JDBC driver. 
 
 
You can monitor growing memory usage in application 
heap by running "db2pd -db DBNAME -memb appctl". 
 
The output(snippet) is shown below as an example. 
 
Memory blocks sorted by size for apph pool: 
PoolID     PoolName   TotalSize(Bytes)     TotalCount LOC   File 
1          apph       11284444             245314     3982 
1315556668 
 
 
The application may eventually receive  error SQL0954C. 
You may also find "Out of memory failure for Application 
 Heap (APPLHEAPSZ)" error and SQLO_NOMEM_APPH in db2diag.log.
Problem Summary:
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* USERS AFFECTED:                                              * 
* ALL                                                          * 
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* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         * 
* See Problem Description above                                * 
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* RECOMMENDATION:                                              * 
* Upgrade to DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 5                        * 
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Local Fix:
You can disable Extended Indicators support by 
specifying accordingly in the connection properties. 
 
The following is an example: 
 
String url = "jdbc:default:connection"; 
Properties prop = new Properties(); 
prop.put("enableExtendedIndicators", "2"); // public final 
static int NO = 2 
 
    try { 
      con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, prop);
available fix packs:
DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 6 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 8 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 9a for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Solution
First fixed in DB2 Version 9.7 Fix Pack 5
Workaround
not known / see Local fix
Timestamps
Date  - problem reported    :
Date  - problem closed      :
Date  - last modified       :
14.03.2011
12.12.2011
12.12.2011
Problem solved at the following versions (IBM BugInfos)
9.7.FP5
Problem solved according to the fixlist(s) of the following version(s)
9.7.0.5 FixList