Limiting resources for a stored procedure

DB2® stored procedures are especially designed for high volume online transactions.

Procedure

To establish limits for stored procedures:

Take one of the following actions:

Set a processor limit for each stored procedure, by updating the ASUTIME column of the SYSIBM.SYSROUTINES catalog table. This limit allows DB2 to cancel procedures that loop.
Set a limit for the maximum number of times that a procedure can terminate abnormally, by specifying a value in the MAX ABEND COUNT field on installation panel DSNTIPX. This limit is a system limit that applies to all stored procedures and prevents a problem procedure from overwhelming the system with abend dump processing.
Set a limit for the maximum number of times that a specific procedure can terminate abnormally, by specifying the STOP AFTER FAILURES option on the ALTER or CREATE PROCEDURE statement. This limit allows you to override the system limit specified in MAX ABEND COUNT and specify different limits for different procedures.