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db2look fails to genereate table DDL for entire database

Troubleshooting


Problem

db2look failing with "Recreate table DDL failed with rc = -2146303891" when executed from a cron job

Symptom

On a DB2 Partitioned Database, using cronjob to execute db2look fails to generate DDL for all tables in the database. The following messages are generated in the db2diag.log :


2013-04-06-21.17.09.712948-240 I184594438E502      LEVEL: Severe      
PID     : 3700                 TID  : 46921351686464PROC : db2sysc 1
INSTANCE: db2inst1          NODE : 001          DB   : SAMPLE      
APPHDL  : 1-38315              APPID: *N1.db2inst1.130407011307        
AUTHID  : DB2INST1
EDUID   : 99864                EDUNAME: db2agent (SAMPLE) 1          
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, catalog services, sqlrlCreateTableDDL, probe:0      
RETCODE : ZRC=0x8012006D=-2146303891=SQLR_CA_BUILT                    
          "SQLCA has already been built"                              
                                                                       
2013-04-06-21.17.09.713051-240 I184594941E587      LEVEL: Error        
PID     : 3700                 TID  : 46921351686464PROC : db2sysc 1  
INSTANCE: db2inst1             NODE : 001          DB   : SAMPLE      
APPHDL  : 1-38315              APPID: *N1.db2inst1.130407011307        
AUTHID  : DB2INST1
EDUID   : 99864                EDUNAME: db2agent (SAMPLE) 1          
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, relation data serv, sqlrr_recreate_ddl, probe:150  
DATA #1 : String, 51 bytes                                            
Recreate table DDL failed with rc = -2146303891.                      
                                                                       
DATA #2 : Hexdump, 4 bytes                                            
0x00002AACBA7EAF88 : 6D00 1280 m...


The reason code -2146303891 is mapped to SQL0902C which means that "A system error occurred and subsequent SQL statements cannot be processed."

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Modified date:
01 May 2025

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