Using MAXASSIGNEDVAL from SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCES (IBM DB2 for Z OS)

SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCES has a column called MAXASSIGNEDVAL, that gets assigned whenever the values for IDENTITY/SEQUENCE columns are getting generated (at least for the cache).

SELECT MAXASSIGNEDVAL 
FROM SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCES
WHERE SEQUENCEID = 
(SELECT BSEQUENCEID FROM SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCESDEP
WHERE DCREATOR = 'USER1'
AND DNAME = 'EMP_TABLE'
AND DCOLNAME = 'EMP_ID');