querying backup process

[Tambi Dude]

I am new to DB2. The version we are using is 8.2.3

I have to query DB2 to find out all backups for a given database and take
following
information

Backup Date, Start Time, End TIme, Status
If failure, the error code.

I am working on a script of someone else.

The command used is db2 list history backup since YYMMDD for DBNAME.

And then I have to filter out the information from the output.

Is there a better way. Like some sort of system catalog tables where I can
query.

Thanks.

[Ian]

Tambi Dude wrote:

I am new to DB2. The version we are using is 8.2.3

I have to query DB2 to find out all backups for a given database and
take following information

Backup Date, Start Time, End TIme, Status If failure, the error code.
I am working on a script of someone else.

The command used is db2 list history backup since YYMMDD for DBNAME.

And then I have to filter out the information from the output.

Is there a better way. Like some sort of system catalog tables where
I can query.

Yes, see the ADMIN_LIST_HISTORY table function that was introduced in
8.2. This gives you the ability to query this information with SQL.