Chapter17.Diagnosing Problems

Chapter 17. Diagnosing Problems

This chapter describes how to investigate problems you may encounter while working with DB2 and how to isolate them using diagnostic information. Once you isolate a problem, you can search for previously reported problems and identify workarounds.

In this chapter you will learn about:

• The big picture of DB2 problem diagnosis

• Obtaining more information about an error message

• Collecting diagnostic information: First Failure Data Capture (FFDC)

• The trace facility