Utility Information
So without further ado, let's see how DISPLAY can help us manage the execution of IBM DB2 utilities. Issuing a DISPLAY UTILITY command will cause DB2 to display the status of all active, stopped, or terminating utilities. So, if you are working over the weekend running REORGs, issuing an occasional DISPLAY UTILITY allows you to keep up-to-date on the status of the job. Of course, you can issue DISPLAY UTILITY any time you wish, not just over the weekend...By monitoring the current phase of the utility and matching this information with the utility phase information, you can determine the relative progress of the utility as it processes.
Of course, this works only on IBM's utilities. If you are using another vendor's DB2 utilities (e.g. BMC, CA, CDB) you will need to work with the parameters and monitoring capabilities provided by your particular vendor of choice.
For the IBM COPY, REORG, and RUNSTATS utilities, the DISPLAY UTILITY command also can be used to monitor the progress of particular phases. The COUNT specified for each phase lists the number of pages that have been loaded, unloaded, copied, or read.
You also can check the progress of the CHECK, LOAD, RECOVER, and MERGE utilities using DISPLAY UTILITY. The number of rows, index entries, or pages, that have been processed are displayed by this command.
Log Information
You can also use the DISPLAY LOG command to display information about the number of logs, their current capacity, and the setting of the LOGLOAD parameter. This information pertains to the active logs. DISPLAY ARCHIVE will show information about your archive logs.
Of course, to be able to issue either of these commands requires either specific DISPLAY system authority or one of system DBADM, SYSOPR, SYSCTRL, or SYSADM authorities.
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