db2 luw 9.7 - Event monitors

Quick steps to setup event monitoring to capture the db2 sql activity and get to the output to some readable format.

-- db2 event monitoring for tracking sql statements etc.

-- first created for troubleshooting PowerDesigner issue.

-- sql statement to create evt monitor

CREATE EVENT MONITOR evtmon_pd_issue

FOR STATEMENTS

WHERE AUTH_ID = 'USER_ID'

WRITE TO FILE '/home/db2admin' -- this is a directory path

MAXFILES 5

MAXFILESIZE 1024

NONBLOCKED

APPEND;

db2 "set event monitor evtmon_pd_issue state 1"

db2 "set event monitor evtmon_pd_issue state 0"

--After stopping the evt monitor you will see a file in "/home/db2admin" which has word "evt" in its name and has sequential number at the end if there are many files created

-- this will format out the evt monitor captured data

db2evmon -path '/home/db2admin' >> evtmon_pd_issue.out

-- in *.out file you see output in readable format (txt)

-- ones done with your experiements, drop the evt monitor(s)

db2 "drop event monitor evtmon_pd_issue"

For more information on event monitors go to

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.mon.doc/doc/c0055386.html