{"id":27,"date":"2017-02-07T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/colin\/morethanfour\/post\/Finding-the-Data-Dictionary-in-DB2"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T10:12:00","slug":"finding-the-data-dictionary-in-db2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2017\/02\/07\/finding-the-data-dictionary-in-db2\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Data Dictionary in DB2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not creating a special &#8220;DB2&#8221; category for this post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for metadata, or some kind of data dictionary similar to those available in MS SQL Server or Oracle DB, to describe the tables and columns in a schema in DB2.<\/p>\n<p>The closest match so far seems to be information in the SYSIBM library:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waveform.org.uk\/~dave\/sample\/plain\/schema_SYSIBM.html\">https:\/\/www.waveform.org.uk\/~dave\/sample\/plain\/schema_SYSIBM.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Specifically: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SQLCOLUMNS<\/li>\n<li>SQLTABLES<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chartio.com\/resources\/tutorials\/how-to-view-the-definition-of-a-table-in-ibm-db2\/\">https:\/\/chartio.com\/resources\/tutorials\/how-to-view-the-definition-of-a-table-in-ibm-db2\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not creating a special &#8220;DB2&#8221; category for this post \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve been looking for metadata, or some kind of data dictionary similar to those available in MS SQL Server or Oracle DB, to describe the tables and columns in a schema in DB2. The closest match so far seems to be information in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}