Starting with DB2® Version 9.7, you can access monitor data through a light-weight alternative to the traditional system monitor. Use monitor table functions to collect and view data for systems, activities, or data objects.
Data for monitored elements are continually accumulated in memory and available for querying. You can choose to receive data for a single object (for example, service class A or table TABLE1) or for all objects.
When using these table functions in a database partitioned environment, you can choose to receive data for a single partition or for all partitions. If you choose to receive data for all partitions, the table functions return one row for each partition. Using SQL, you can sum the values across partitions to obtain the value of a monitor element across partitions.