The SYSCOLLATION compatibility view contains the collation sequence information for the database. It is obtainable via built-in functions and is not kept in the catalog. Following is definition for this view:
ALTER VIEW "SYS"."SYSCOLLATION"
as select 1 as collation_id,
DB_PROPERTY('Collation') as collation_label,
DB_EXTENDED_PROPERTY('Collation','Description') as collation_name,
cast(DB_EXTENDED_PROPERTY('Collation','LegacyData') as binary(1280)) as collation_order