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 Open Data Set The current number of open data sets.
Current Thread Count The current number of active threads. Valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.
DB2 ID The name of a DB2 subsystem.
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.
DSMAX The maximum number of open data sets allowed to be specified in DSNZPARM.
DSMAX Approaching Max The number of data sets opened is approaching the maximum number of open data sets defined by the DSMAX parameter in DSNZPARM.
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.
Group or Subsystem Name The DB2ID or data sharing group name. Valid value is alphanumeric with a maximum of 8 characters; for example, TDDB241G.
Group Object Analysis Status The status of the Event Manager for Object Analysis.
MIX | Some Event Managers are active |
NO | Event Manager is not active |
YES | Event Manager is active |
Group or Subsystem Type Indicates whether a group or subsystem is a DB2 or a data sharing group.
DB2 | DB2 subsystem |
DSGRP | Data sharing group |
In Doubt 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.
Lock Conflict Count The total number of owners and waiters that are in lock conflict. Valid value is an integer in the range 0 - 99999999.
Lock Escalation Exclusive The number of times that the allowable number of locks per table space was exceeded resulting in page (IX) lock to escalate to table or table space lock in exclusive mode.
Lock Escalation Rate The number of lock escalations (exclusive and shared) per second in this interval.
Lock Escalation Shared The number of times that the allowable number of locks per table space was exceeded, resulting in page (IS) lock to escalate to table or table space lock in shared mode.
MVS System An ID for the MVS System Management Facility (SMF). Valid format is alphanumeric with a maximum of 4 characters; for example SP11.
Number of DB2 systems The total number of monitored DB2 systems. Valid value is an integer in the range 1 - 64.
Number of GBP Connections The total number of Group Buffer Pool (GBP) Connections.
Object Analysis DB Count The total number of monitored databases in a specific data sharing group that are participating in object analysis. Valid value is an integer in the range 0 - 4999.
Origin Node Name The node name of the DB2 system. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 32 characters.
RIDPool Fail No Storage Due to insufficient storage for the candidate RID lists, DB2 was unable to use more than one index when accessing a DB2 table.
RIDPool Fail No Storage Rate The number of RIDPOOL fallbacks per second in this interval.
Spare Enumeration Used for alignment only. Valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of one character.
Status Indicates whether a DB2 subsystem or data sharing group for a monitored entity is operational. Valid values are OFFLINE or ONLINE.
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.
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.