9.7.3 DESCRIBE

Purpose

The DESCRIBE command displays a list of attributes for the object type that is provided as an argument. The tag modifiable indicates whether an attribute can be modified using the ALTER command.

Syntax

DESCRIBE object_type

Usage Notes

• The object_type is one of the supported object types.

• The list of attributes can be used as arguments in the LIST command.

• DESCRIBE does not display all of the attributes for the objects.

• DESCRIBE ALERTDEFINITION
  
• DESCRIBE ALERTHISTORY
  
• DESCRIBE DBSERVER
  
• DESCRIBE IBPORT
  
• DESCRIBE LUN
  
• DESCRIBE METRICCURRENT
  
• DESCRIBE METRICDEFINITION
  
• DESCRIBE METRICHISTORY
  
• DESCRIBE PHYSICALDISK
  
• DESCRIBE ROLE
  
• DESCRIBE THRESHOLD
  
• DESCRIBE USER