Removing members from the data sharing group

One of the features of Db2 data sharing is incremental growth, which entails being able to add members to an existing group. However, a situation might occur in which you want to remove members from the group, either temporarily or permanently.

For example, assume that your group does the job it needs to do for 11 months of the year. However, a surge of additional work every December requires you to expand your capacity. You can quiesce some members of the group for those 11 months. Those members are dormant until you restart them. A quiesced member can also remain dormant indefinitely.

A quiesced member (whether you intend for it to be quiesced indefinitely or only temporarily) still appears in displays and reports. It appears in DISPLAY GROUP output with a status of QUIESCED.

To permanently remove a member, you can delete it from the data sharing group by following the procedure in Deleting data sharing members.

If a data sharing member cannot be deleted with the usual process because of missing BSDS data sets, see Deleting data sharing members with missing BSDS data sets.