The ARSLOAD program is the main IBM® Content
Manager OnDemand data indexing and loading
program. The ARSLOAD program calls the indexing program if the input
data needs to be indexed, creates input files for the storage manager,
and updates the Content Manager OnDemand database.
The ARSLOAD program saves processing messages in the system log. You
can open the System Log folder and list the messages that were generated
when an input file was processed.
You typically
configure the ARSLOAD program to run as a daemon (UNIX servers) or service (Windows servers), to periodically check specified
file systems for input files to process.
You typically
configure the ARSLOAD program to run as a monitor to periodically
check specified IFS directories for input files to process.
The ARSLOAD program can use the following sources for
input files to process:
- one or more file systems specified with one or more -d parameters,
- one or more load file names.
If you omit the load file name, the ARSLOAD program will
run in
daemonmonitor mode
and attempt to load input data from the directories that are specified
by the
-d parameter. If you omit the load file
name and do not specify the
daemonmonitor mode parameter (
-d),
the ARSLOAD program will issue a usage note and exit.
Important: When running the ARSLOAD program in daemonmonitor mode, the .ARD and .PDF file
name extensions are required to initiate a load process.
When you run the ARSLOAD program, you must provide the user ID of a
Content Manager OnDemand user with administrator authority for the application group into
which the input data will be loaded. There are several ways that you can provide the user ID:
- Do not specify the -u parameter. In this case, the current
user profile of the job that is running ARSLOAD is used as the Content Manager OnDemand user ID. This is the recommended method.
- Use the -u parameter each time that you run the ARSLOAD program.
- On UNIX servers, set a default system
administrator userid and password in the ARSLOAD.CFG configuration file. The
ARSLOAD program uses the values in the ARSLOAD.CFG file unless you specify
otherwise (with the -u parameter).
- On Windows servers, the Load Data service
uses the userid and password of the instance owner. If you run the ARSLOAD program from the command
line, you should use Windows unified logon. See the
-u parameter for details.
Important: After you upgrade to Content Manager OnDemand Version 9.5, keep in mind
that ARSLOAD now automatically excludes duplicate rows during load
(thereby lessening the count for the number of rows loaded by ARSLOAD).
Meaning, if duplicate rows are present, then only one is loaded.