舉個例子，對于數據庫SAMPLE中程序包DB2INST1.P0203450，使用下面命令：
db2expln -d SAMPLE -g -c db2inst1 -p P0203450 -s 0 -t
其中
-g 是指給出存取計劃的圖形輸出(用字符模擬的)
-s 0 是指分析所有的SQL命令
下面是相應的輸出：
DB2 Universal Database Version 7.2, 5622-044 (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 1991, 2001
Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM
IBM DATABASE 2 SQL Explain Tool
Processing package DB2INST1.P0203450.
******************** PACKAGE *********************
Package Name = DB2INST1.P0203450
--------Prep Date = 2002/12/17
--------Prep Time = 16:02:04
--------Bind Timestamp = 2002-12-17-16.02.04.373971
--------Isolation Level ---------= Cursor Stability
--------Blocking---------------- = Block Unambiguous Cursors
--------Query Optimization Class = 5
--------Partition Parallel ------= No
--------Intra-Partition Parallel = No
--------Function Path----------- = "SYSIBM", "SYSFUN", "DB2INST1"
Processing Section 1.
-------------------- SECTION ----------------------
......
-------------------- SECTION ----------------------
Section = 2
SQL Statement:
update STAFF set NAME = 'test'
where ID = 350
Estimated Cost = 75
Estimated Cardinality = 2
Access Table Name = DB2INST1.STAFF ID = 2,3
| #Columns = 2
| Relation Scan
| | Prefetch: Eligible
| Lock Intents
| | Table: Intent Exclusive
| | Row : Update
| Sargable Predicate(s)
| | #Predicates = 1
Update: Table Name = DB2INST1.STAFF ID = 2,3
End of section
Optimizer Plan:
------UPDATE
------( -2)
------/-- \
-TBSCAN --Table:
--( 3) --DB2INST1
---| -----STAFF
Table:
DB2INST1
STAFF
......
可以用下面命令找出數據庫中存在的程序包：
db2 "select pkgschema, pkgname from syscat.packages"
上面例子中的程序包DB2INST1.P0203450是一個存儲過程。