Hello Everyone,
I am new to DB2.I have couple of questions.
Before to my question.I am using DB2 type 4 driver.(db2jccjar).
I have a data base and trying to retrieve all the table names under the data base from java client.
I have used the following code.

Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
String query="list database directory show detail";
stmt.execute(query);
But it throws me an exception as follows.
DB2 SQL Error: SQLCODE=-104, SQLSTATE=42601, SQLERRMC=END-OF-STATEMENT;irectory show detail;JOIN <joined_table>,
I would really appreciate if some one can help me out for this question.
Thanks in advace.

"LIST DATABASE DIRECTORY" lists, well, databases, not tables. Besides, it is not an SQL statement but rather a CLP command, so you cannot execute it via JDBC.

The best way to obtain the list of tables is by using a java.sql.DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() call. If you must query the database, the information you are looking for is in the SYSCAT.TABLES table.

Thanks a lot for your quick response.Yes you are correct i wanted to execute from JDBC .Can you please explain little bit about SYSCAT.TABLES??????
I would really appreciate if you can send me a reply....

Thanks a lot for your quick response.Yes you are correct i wanted to execute from JDBC .Can you please explain little bit about SYSCAT.TABLES??????
I would really appreciate if you can send me a reply....

A little bit (and a lot) about SYSCAT.TABLES is written in the fine DB2 SQL Reference manual, a link to which you can find in the sticky post at the top of this fine forum.

Hello,
Thanks for your response.I was trying to use java.sql.DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(); Hopefully which will return all the table names to me.But for execute this i need to give the following input such as 1)catalog2)schemaPattern3)tableNamePattern4)column NamePattern.I don't understand any of these.I don't know the table names and how many tables are there.
I would really appreciate if some one can give me a response back.....

the first thing todo would be to study some basics about any relational database. this is common for all
schema tablename columnname or see the help
SYSCAT.TABLES catalog view