Not sure what you are asking, but if you alter a table to add a new column to a table, a row will be inserted into the sysibm.syscolumns catalog table (better to view it via syscat.columns view if using DB2 LUW). There may be some other rows added to the DB2 catalog if you do a certain kind of runstats or if you create any indexes, constraints, FK's etc on the new column.