Want to schedule and automate DB2 exporting to Excel task?
Using DBToFile, a DB2 tool, you can scheduled exporting DB2 data to Excel task easily, just a few mouse clicks!
Let computer automate repetitive exporting DB2 data to Excel busy work, DBToFile make our life easier!
Here you can download and install DBToFile.
Schedule and automate DB2 exporting to Excel files task
1. Select and run a task from follow list:
- Export multiple similar DB2 tables to a single Excel sheet
- Export DB2 table to Excel
- Export DB2 to Excel XLSX format
- Export DB2 query results to Excel
- Export DB2 tables to Excel sheets in 1 Excel file
- Batch export DB2 tables to Excel files
- Create Excel report from DB2 database
- Export DB2 table to Excel using dynamic filename with current date
- Export DB2 query to Excel using dynamic filename with current date
2. Save session and create .bat file.
More about DBToFile – the tool to export data from DB2 to Excel
DB2 → EXCEL reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in DB2 | in EXCEL |
|---|---|---|
| Int | INTEGER | 1234 (a real numeric cell) |
| Bigint | BIGINT | 9007199254740993 (exact only while the cell stays text) |
| Decimal | DECIMAL(p,s) | 1234.56 (numeric cell, format controls the displayed decimals) |
| Float | DOUBLE | 1.234E+10 (numeric cell) |
| Text | VARCHAR(n) | text cell; leading zeros survive only if the column is text |
| Long text | CLOB | text cell; wraps inside the cell rather than the row |
| Date | DATE | a serial number plus a date cell format |
| Datetime | TIMESTAMP | a serial number plus a date-time cell format |
| Binary | BLOB | not representable as data |
| Boolean | SMALLINT | TRUE / FALSE (a real boolean cell) |
| JSON | CLOB | a text cell; the quotes are part of the value |
Dialect differences
DB2 is a database server and EXCEL is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference - the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.
| Property | in DB2 | in EXCEL |
|---|---|---|
| port | 50000 | — |
| identifiers | "double quotes" | Not applicable; a cell holds exactly one value |
| row limit | FETCH FIRST n ROWS | — |
| dates | DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP | Stored as a serial number; only the cell format makes it lo... |
| long text | CLOB | — |
| binary | BLOB | Only as text or an embedded object, not as a data column |
| separator | — | Cells, not delimiters |
| encoding | — | UTF-8 internally, declared in the package |
| typing | — | Real cell types: text, number, date, boolean, error |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Multiple sheets, each a flat grid |
| ceiling | — | 1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns per sheet; 255 sheets per w... |
Command line
| Side | Command |
|---|---|
| DB2 | EXPORT TO out.csv OF DEL |
| DB2 (load) | db2 IMPORT FROM file OF DEL |
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