The DIAGNOSE Utility

The DIAGNOSE Utility

The DIAGNOSE utility is an online utility that can be used to diagnose problems, especially problems with other DB2 utilities. Sample JCL is provided in Listing 31.9.

Listing 31.9. DIAGNOSE JCL

 //DB2JOBU  JOB  (UTILITY),'DB2 DIAGNOSE',MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=X, //        NOTIFY=USER //* //**************************************************************** //* //*                    DB2 DIAGNOSE UTILITY //* //**************************************************************** //* //UTIL EXEC DSNUPROC,SYSTEM=DSN,UID='DIAGNOSE',UTPROC=" //* //*  Display all records in the SYSIBM.SYSUTIL DB2 Directory table //* //DSNUPROC.SYSIN    DD  *     DIAGNOSE DISPLAY SYSUTIL /* // 

The DIAGNOSE utility can be used to force dumps for utility abends and format SYSIBM.SYSUTILX information for printing. It should be used only under instructions and supervision from an IBM Support Center.