The universes aren’t held in the repository (system) database in XI, they’re in the file system. The system database just holds a pointer to the universe. I guess it’s the SDK if you need this sort of information, or else something like Noad’s EQM, which is probably overkill if all you want to do is document the universe. However this post looks like it might do what you want - Document a universe using Excel and the Designer SDK
Gillian 
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