Using the Activity Monitor to Actively Monitor Application Locks - Page 2

Investigating a Locking Problem Using the Activity Monitor

Once you open the Activity Monitor, you need to select the database that you want to work with. By default, the first database that you create in the default instance is selected.

You can work with any database in any instance on your system. If you want to work with a different database than the default one selected by the wizard, click on the ellipsis and select the instance and database that you want to work with, as shown in the Select Database window. On my system, I just have a single instance cataloged (called HEALTH) that has a single database (called SMART).

Once you decide what database you want to work with, you can choose what type of problem you want to investigate. You can see in the following figure that you have some provided reports or investigative paths that you can follow. You can also create your own, or new reports based on existing paths. For this example, since I am interested in investigating a locking issue that the Health Center automatically brought to my attention, I selected the Resolving an application locking situation monitoring task.

Since some systems could have hundreds of connections or multiple applications, you can filter the information that the Activity Monitor returns. I set up this example on my laptop, so I do not need to concern myself with filtering.

The Summary window lists all of the provided reports that DB2 UDB will return to you so that you can investigate your locking problem:

A locking report is then returned to you from the DB2 UDB engine. You can see in the figure below that there are a number of locks that are waiting on other locks, but have not timed out yet. Also, notice that you can filter the results in this window as well.

You also have access to the other reports that DB2 UDB generated for you. To see these reports, click the Report drop-down box:

Obviously, if you select a different report, that report is shown in the Activity Monitor. The following figure shows the largest number of rows read for the SQL executed against the database (one of the provided reports you have the option of selecting):

Since all of the applications are blocked right now (you will see this visually in a moment), there are no SQL statements listed here. What you will find, however, is that the column information returned changes for each report.