Monitoring and controlling online utilities

You can monitor utilities, run utilities concurrently, terminate utilities, and restart utilities.

Monitoring utilities
You can check the status of any DB2 online utility jobs. You can also check the phase in which the utility is executing or stopped.
Monitoring processor use by utilities
You can run traces to collect data about the amount of processor time that is used by online utilities.
Subsystem parameters for refining DFSMSdss COPY operation with utilities
You can use subsystem parameters to control whether utilities that invoke DFSMSdss COPY use FlashCopy® technology.
Determining why a utility failed to complete
If an online utility job completes normally, it issues return code 0. If it completes with warning messages, it issues return code 4. Return code 8 means that the job failed to complete. Return code 12 means that an authorization error occurred.
Terminating an online utility
You can terminate the execution of an active utility or release the resources that are associated with a stopped utility.
Restarting an online utility
If a utility finishes abnormally, you might be able to restart it. You need only resubmit the job and DB2 attempts to restart it. However, you might need or choose to make other changes before you resubmit the job.

Parent topic: DB2 online utilities