how to see the schema of a db2 table (file)

Question

As in subject... is there a way of looking at an empty table schema without inserting any rows and issuing a SELECT?

Answer 1

Are you looking for DESCRIBE?

db2 describe table user1.department

Table: USER1.DEPARTMENT

Column             Type        Type
name               schema      name               Length   Scale    Nulls
------------------ ----------- ------------------ -------- -------- --------
AREA               SYSIBM      SMALLINT                  2        0 No
DEPT               SYSIBM      CHARACTER                 3        0 No
DEPTNAME           SYSIBM      CHARACTER                20        0 Yes

Answer 2

Looking at your other question, DESCRIBE may not work. I believe there is a system table that stores all of the field information.

Perhaps this will help you out. A bit more coding but far more accurate.