I tried $sth->execute or die "Cant execute ($stmt) - $DBI::errstr\n"; but the or condition is not reached even thought the execute failed due to the table being offline. There are conditions where I would not find any data and that is OK, but if I don't find data due to the table not being available that is a problem. So I tried checking the fetch status 
$status = $sth->execute;
print "Status = $status\n"; # the RC is always -1  weather the execute
+ worked or not

my $col1;
$sth->bind_col(1,\$col1);
while ($sth->fetch || die "Cant fetch data - $DBI::errstr\n") { 
    print "ID: $col1\n";
}

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The problem with this is that when fetch runs out of a data to return it hit the || and dies, or if not data was found the script then dies.

In reply to Re^2: DB2 checking for an error on select by dgarnier
in thread DB2 checking for an error on select by Anonymous Monk

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