Hi,

I want to know what goes into stdout and what goes into stderr in the case of db2 commands. I had noticed everything going into stdout only. Some errors which I expected would go to stderr have also landed in stdout.

Can somebody please help me out with this. Or direct me to a place where I can get this info.

What is the name of the program you are executing? Do you think we are mind readers?

db2 command though a unix command, seems to have one output ; which you capture by -o out option are appending '>out ' after the command. If you think of db2 as a script, it does what ' su - db2inst1 "-c smscrpt 1>out 2>>1"
does.

I beleive that the original poster is using DB2 for OS/390.

Hi,

I am sorry if the question wasn't clear. I am not looking for any specific command. I want to know in general (for any db2 command) what is supposed to go into its stdout and what is supposed to go into its stderr. I have a situation where I need to work on the stdout and stderr of any db2 command and process it in someway. For this I need to know what kind of messages go into its output and what kind of messages go into its stderr. Messages which I expected to go to the command's stderr also landed in its stdout. So I was wondering if there's documentation somewhere which talks about what kind of failures leave info in stdout and what kind of failures leave info in stderr.