DB2 CLI result output

Question

When running command-line queries in MySQL you can optionally use '\G' as a statement terminator, and instead of the result set columns being listed horizontally across the screen, it will list each column vertically, which the corresponding data to the right. Is there a way to the same or a similar thing with the DB2 command line utility?

Example regular MySQL result

mysql> select * from tagmap limit 2;
+----+---------+--------+
| id | blog_id | tag_id |
+----+---------+--------+
| 16 |       8 |      1 |
| 17 |       8 |      4 |
+----+---------+--------+

Example Alternate MySQL result:

mysql> select * from tagmap limit 2\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
     id: 16
blog_id: 8
 tag_id: 1
*************************** 2. row ***************************
     id: 17
blog_id: 8
 tag_id: 4
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Obviously, this is much more useful when the columns are large strings, or when there are many columns in a result set, but this demonstrates the formatting better than I can probably explain it.

Answer 1

I don't think such an option is available with the DB2 command line client. See http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?t=708079 for some suggestions. For a more general set of information about the DB2 command line client you might check out the IBM DeveloperWorks article DB2's Command Line Processor and Scripting.