Teradata Parallel Data Pump

Chapter 3: Teradata TPump Commands
IMPORT
Syntax Element
USING (parms)
FROM m
FOR n
THRU k
Description
Character string with the parameters passed to the user exit routine
The parms string can include one or more character strings, each delimited
on either end by an apostrophe or quotation mark.
Maximum size of the parms string is 1K bytes.
Parentheses within delimited character strings or comments have the same
syntactical significance as alphabetic characters.
Before passing the parms string to the user exit routine, the following items
are replaced with a single blank character:
• Each comment.
• Each consecutive sequence of white space characters, such as blank, tab
and so on, that appears outside of delimited strings.
The entire parms string must be enclosed in parentheses. On channelattached
client systems, the parentheses are included in the string passed to
the user exit routine.
Note: The parms string must be FDLINMOD for the user exit routines
written for the prior Pascal version of the FastLoad utility (program
FASTMAIN).
Logical record number, as an integer, of the record in the identified data
source where processing is to begin
If a FROM m specification is not used, Teradata TPump begins processing
with the first record received from the data source.
Number of records, as an integer, starting at record m, to be processed
If a FOR n or a THRU k specification is not used, Teradata TPump continues
processing through the last record obtained from the data source.
Logical record number, as an integer, of the record in the identified data
source where processing is to end
If a THRU k or a FOR n specification is not used, Teradata TPump continues
processing through the last record obtained from the data source.
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