The DB2GSE.GEOMETRY_COLUMNS catalog view

This catalog view shows selected columns of the catalog table that contains information about layers.

When you create a layer, IBM® Spatial Support for Db2 for z/OS® registers it by recording its identifier and information relating to it in a catalog table. Selected columns from the catalog table comprise the DB2GSE.GEOMETRY_COLUMNS catalog view, which is described in the following table.

Table 1. Columns in the DB2GSE.GEOMETRY_COLUMNS catalog view
Name Data Type Nullable? Content
LAYER_CATALOG VARCHAR(30) Yes NULL. There is no concept of LAYER_CATALOG in IBM Spatial Support for Db2 for z/OS.
LAYER_SCHEMA VARCHAR(30) No Schema of the table or view that contains the column that was registered as this layer.
LAYER_TABLE VARCHAR(128) No Name of the table or view that contains the column that was registered as this layer.
LAYER_COLUMN VARCHAR(128) No Name of the column that was registered as this layer.
GEOMETRY_TYPE INTEGER Yes Data type of the column that was registered as this layer. If the column has a user-defined subtype of any of the geometry types defined by spatial support, then this value will be null.
SRID INTEGER No Identifier of the spatial reference system used for the values in the column that was registered as this layer.
STORAGE_TYPE INTEGER Yes This field is not being used. The value always will be null.