db2i-survey

db2i-survey is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ebizsoft/agentic-claude-code. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,784 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for exploring DB2 for i, the database system used on IBM i computers, also known as AS/400. It inventories libraries, tables, columns, possible relationships, and duplicate or unused copies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when surveying an unfamiliar IBM i database, documenting its structure, finding likely join fields, or separating active data from old library copies.
Why use it?
Broad metadata queries on older IBM i systems can create heavy workloads, so this procedure emphasizes safer, smaller checks before wider exploration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ebizsoft/agentic-claude-code/db2i-survey
Any agent
npx skills add ebizsoft/agentic-claude-code --skill db2i-survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ebizsoft/agentic-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,784 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00101 $0.01784
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00178

Measured 4d ago against content hash 489f7f01c200, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

db2i-survey scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/db2i_probe.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/db2i-survey/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DB2 for i Survey & Exploration

Platform check first: "DB2" is three products. This skill is for DB2 for i (IBM i / AS/400 — QSYS2 catalog, jdbc:as400: URLs). If SELECT 1 FROM QSYS2.SYSSCHEMAS FETCH FIRST 1 ROW ONLY fails with SQL0204, you are on DB2 LUW or z/OS — read references/other-db2-variants.md: the stall rules mostly don't apply there (their catalogs are stored, not computed), but the analysis playbook and catalog translation table do.

The mental model (why naive exploration fails)

On DB2 for i, the SQL catalog (QSYS2.SYSTABLES, SYSCOLUMNS, …) is not stored data — it is a façade computed over Machine Interface object metadata. A catalog query resolves by touching live file objects. On an old, fragmented box with invalid access paths, a schema-wide catalog query triggers access-path rebuilds and cross-library resolution on every run: your "metadata read" is the workload. Single-object reads are fast on the same box for the same reason stat is fast where find / is not.

For scale: a ~300-schema / ~15,000-table instance that stalled indefinitely on one schema-wide SYSCOLUMNS list completed a full survey — every schema triaged, tables dictionaried (~11,000 columns), ~600 queries — in about a minute with zero failures once every query followed the rules below.

Rules of engagement (inviolable — every query, no exceptions)

  1. Enumerate via QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('LIB','FILE'), never via SYSTABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA=…. It reads object metadata directly — it's ls, not a catalog join.
  2. Pin TABLE_SCHEMA AND TABLE_NAME on SYSCOLUMNS/SYSKEYCST. Never resolve across *LIBL. Schema-wide catalog reads are forbidden during exploration.
  3. No ORDER BY on exploratory queries — sorting a computed view forces full materialization. (Exception: ORDER BY ORDINAL_POSITION on a single-table column read is fine.)
  4. Cap everything: FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY in the SQL and a client-side max-rows; set a per-statement query timeout so a stall dies in seconds, logged, instead of hanging the survey.
  5. Row counts from QSYS2.SYSTABLESTAT/SYSPARTITIONSTAT — catalog CARD is stale and older LPARs lack NUMBER_ROWS entirely.
  6. Snapshot once, analyze offline. Pull inventories/dictionaries to local CSVs in one pass; iterate on the copy, never re-scan the live box.
  7. Read-only, structure-only. Use a SELECT-only profile. Survey queries touch only QSYS2 catalog/metadata functions — never SELECT * business rows. Structure (names, text, counts) is shareable; row data is not.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 125 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 489f7f01c200

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db2i-survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository ebizsoft/agentic-claude-code (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,784 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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