Use the DB2 System States attributes to create situations to monitor system-level performance and exception alerts.
Active Stored Procedures The number of stored procedures currently executing. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Active Triggers The number of triggers currently executing. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Active User Functions The number of user defined functions currently executing. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Archive Device The CCUU address of the device that is to be used for mounting the tape. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of four characters.
Archive DSN The data set name of the archive file being waited on. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 44 characters.
Archive Volser The volser for tape volume being waited on. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of six characters.
ASIDs Stored Procedures The number of unique active threads executing stored procedures. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
ASIDs User Functions The number of ASIDs executing user functions. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Current Thread Count The current number of active threads. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
DB Wait Percent The percentage of threads that are waiting for database services. Valid entry ranges from 0.0 to 100.0.
Dist DB Inactive The state will be true if this DB2 system is not enabled for the Distributed Data Facility (DDF). Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of one character.
Dist Receive Rate The DDF Receive bytes per second in units of 1,000. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Dist Send Rate The DDF Send bytes per second in units of 1,000. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
EDM Current Pages The current number of EDM pages that are being used. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
EDM Total Pages The total number of pages allocated for the EDM pool. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
EDM Utilization Current EDM pages divided by total EDM pages. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Global Trace Active The state will be true if this DB2 system currently has the global tracing active. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of one character.
Indoubt Threads The number of threads that are in an INDOUBT status. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Interval Time The number of seconds since last sample. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Originnode The node name of the DB2 system. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 32 characters.
Spare Enumeration Used for alignment only. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of one character.
Thread Wait Limit The number of threads waiting because the system thread limit (MAXDBAT) has been reached. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Thread Wait Lock The number of threads in a suspend state because they are waiting to obtain a lock. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Time The date and time, as set on the monitored system, indicating the instance when the agent collects information. The timestamp format for SCAN and STR functions is CYYMMDDHHMMSSmmm (as in 1020315064501000 for 03/15/02 06:45:01) where:
C = Century (0 for 20th, 1 for 21st)
Y = Year
M = Month
D = Day
H = Hour
M = Minute
S = Second
m = millisecond
Trigger Depth The depth of the largest trigger stack. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
User Waiting Threads The count of users waiting for threads. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
Wait Tape Mount The state will be true if the DB2 system is waiting on a tape mount to recover from an archive log. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of one character.