Thanks Justin,
So no way to pick it up from the DB field value? for atleast version 9.5 / 8.5 separately? if no option then I will have the ARSXML export and parsing as Alternative option please.
thanks for your help and support.
Of course you can do it. Nobody will do anything to stop you from doing it.
But it is considered as not supported.
And from one version to another it can change without anybody telling you (release notes) that something has changed, since this is internal not documented information. IBM can change it at any time.
the official way to do that is really to use the XML as Justin rightly suggested.
If you don't need it, because you need it for some "one shot" action, I suggest that you take one field value without the updateable setting, do a select of that field in the DB.
Change the setting with your admin client/xml, and redo the select, and try to find which bit(s) is/are changed.
As an information, if your field is "updateable", then it doesn't mean you can update the field, your user needs also to have the update right.