db2top -B

Today’s post is about the -B option, useful for terminals that don’t support bold text.

Everywhere that db2top would normally print bold text, the -B option causes db2top to print reverse text instead. For example, the Dynamic SQL screen highlights active statements in bold, as seen below:

db2top Dynamic SQL screen with no -B option

If we instead specify the -B option when we launch db2top, we would see the following on the Dynamic SQL screen:

db2top Dynamic SQL screen with -B option applied