andyw wrote:
> 1. "administrative routines and views" looks like only for DB2 9.x. my
> application using db2pd capacility should support DB2 8.x ~ 9.x
The number of functions was indeed increased in DB2 9/9.5.
Many of them do exist in DB2 8.2 however, even if they ra enot grouped
as such in the InformationCenter.

> 2. db2pd should access memory of DB2, so no overload DB2. but
> accessing through SQL should overload DB2.
Overload is such a strong word.
Would you mind telling us what yuou are trying to achieve?
Do you represent a tools vendor? If so, are you an IBM Partner?
You would not be the first partner getting acccess to APIs not part of
the InformationCenter. Just ask...

BTW, itGain parses db2pd output.

Cheers
Serge



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Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab