Add privileges on every db2 table at once

Add privileges on every db2 table at once

Recently I ran into a problem where I needed to create a user in db2 and grant him only the SELECT privilege. Referring to the db2 documentation I learned that the privilege assignments take place one table at a time, like so:

Problem with the above approach is that our db2 database is using more than 70 tables, consequently running command 70+ times was going to be a hassle.

Here’s the SOLUTION to assign the SELECT privilege on every table in a given schema:

NOTE: db2 +p -tv would execute the fetched results returned by the SELECT query