Retrieving Column Descriptions

You can add information to the end of the connection string that enables the JDBC driver to retrieve column descriptions in addition to column names. The column description is the long column name from the data dictionary. Additionally, the column description is retrieved in the language of the user who is building the query in BI Publisher.

To display the column description, add CDSC=1 to the connection string. If the CDSC value is 0 or the CDSC tag is not in the connection string, column descriptions will not be retrieved from the database.