How to view DB2 Table structure

Question

How to view the table structure in DB2 database

Answer 1

The OP doesn't mention if this is DB2/400 being discussed, but I found that the only way I could get the table structure including the column name descriptions was to use DSPFFD.

DSPFFD FILE(TBNAME) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(SOMELIB/TBDESC)

This puts the description of TBNAME in a table called TBDESC in the SOMELIB library. You can then query that with:

select * from SOMELIB/TBDESC