Teradata Parallel Data Pump

Chapter 3: Teradata TPump Commands
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Syntax Element
CONTINUEIF
condition
Description
following:
position = value
where position is an unsigned integer (never an asterisk) that specifies the
starting character position of the field of every input record that contains the
continuation indicator, and where value is the continuation indicator specified
as a character constant or a string constant. Teradata TPump uses the length of
the constant as the length of the continuation indicator field.
In the CONTINUEIF option, the condition specified as position = value is
case-sensitive; verify that the correct case has been specified for this parameter.
If the condition is true, Teradata TPump forms a single record to be sent to
Teradata Database, by concatenating the next input record at the end of the
current record. (The current record is the one most recently obtained from the
external data source.)
If the condition parameter is false, Teradata TPump sends to Teradata Database,
the current input record either by itself, or as the last of a sequence of
concatenated records.
Note that the starting position of the continuation indicator field is specified as
a character position of the input record. Character positions start with
character position one. Teradata TPump removes the continuation indicator
field from the input records so that they are not part of the final concatenated
result.
For other fields whose startpos is specified as an unsigned integer, the startpos
refers to the field position within the final concatenated result. Consequently,
the continuation indicator field cannot be defined as all or part of a field
defined with the FIELD, FILLER, or TABLE commands. Refer to the startpos
parameter of the FIELD command.
When the character set of the job script is different from the client character set
used for the job (for example, on z/OS the job script must be in Teradata
EBCDIC when using the UTF8 client character set, or UTF-16 client character
set can be used with the job script in UTF8), Teradata TPump translates the
specified value, which is either a character constant or a string constant, from
the script character set form to the client character set form before evaluating
the condition. Teradata TPump uses the length of the constant in the client
character set form as the length of the continuation indicator field.
Caution:
When using the UTF8 client set on the mainframe, be sure to
examine the definition in International Character Set Support to
determine the code points of the special characters required.
Different versions of EBCDIC do not always agree as to the
placement of these characters.
The mappings between Teradata EBCDIC and Unicode can be
referred to in Appendix E of International Character Set Support.
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