FAQ. DESCSTAT=YES required for DB2 on z/OS ------------------------------------------ Key: HBX-548 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-548 Project: Hibernate Tools Issue Type: Improvement Components: reverse-engineer Affects Versions: 2.1, 3.0alpha, 3.0alpha2, 3.0alpha3, 3.0alpha4, 3.0beta1, 3.0beta2, 3.0beta3, 3.1alpha5, 3.1beta1, 3.1beta2, 3.1beta3, 3.1beta4, 3.2LATER Environment: DB2 os/390 Reporter: Matthew Aston Priority: Trivial Attachments: DB2OS390MetaDataDialect.java When using Hibernate Tools with DB2 on z/OS (Mainframe), be aware that you need to set DESCSTAT=YES and rebind the packages in order for getMetaData().getColumns etc to work. NB. setting this will slightly increase your package size on DB2. The reason for this is that within the Hibernate Tools class, org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.dialect.JDBCMetaDataDialect, calls are made with the column name, e.g. rs.getString("INDEX_NAME"). DB2 will not provide the column names without the DESCSTAT setting. i.e. positioning works e.g. rs.getString(3). DB2 calls a packages SYSIBM.SQLTABLES, SYSIBM.SQLCOLUMNS etc. Alternately you can implement your own org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.dialect.MetaDataDialect that works around this limitation.