I am db2 9.1 3a fix fack.

Any db2 command it taking while to excute even
db2 terminate
db2 list tablespaces
db2 connect to dbname

any thing.

What could be the issue. New boxes. recently created the databses. No changes yet on db box.

My guess: You didn't activate the database explicitly (with the ACTIVATE DB command), so the DB2 client has to activate the DB for the first connection implicitly (and the DB is deactivated again when the last connection disconnects). During activation, DB2 will allocate the primary log files and the various shared memory segments (among other things). This could take a while..