Data files can be structured in various ways. The
High-Performance Loader (HPL) supports data-file
records of the following formats:
- Fixed-length
- Delimited
- COBOL
- Other formats
You can define new format components at any time. Also, you can
test your format before you actually load or unload data.
The ipload utility includes options that let
you modify the data before it is inserted into the database.
The
ipload utility stores information about
formats in the
formatitem and
format tables of the onpload
database.
Important: To prepare the format component, you
must know the format of the records in the data file. If you do not
know the data-file format, you must get it from the person who provided
the data file.
Release date: March 2013