Teradata Parallel Data Pump

Chapter 3: Teradata TPump Commands
RUN FILE
Syntax Element
charpos1 and charpos2
Description
Start and end character positions of a field in each input record which
contains extraneous information
Teradata TPump ignores the specified field(s) as follows:
• charpos1: only the single specified character position is ignored.
• charpos1 THRU: character positions from charpos1 through the end of
the record are ignored.
• THRU charpos2: character positions from the beginning of the record
through charpos2 are ignored.
• charpos1 THRU charpos2: character positions from charpos1 through
charpos2 are ignored.
Usage Notes
Once Teradata TPump executes the RUN FILE command, further commands and DML
statements are read from the specified source until a LOGOFF command or end-of-file
condition is encountered, whichever occurs first. An end-of-file condition automatically
causes Teradata TPump to resume reading its commands and DML statements from the
previously active source (or the previous RUN source when RUNs are nested), either SYSIN
for z/OS, or stdin (normal or redirected) in UNIX. After SYSIN/stdin processes any userprovided
invocation parameter, it remains the active input source.
If an end-of-file condition occurs on fileid, SYSIN/stdin is read because there are no more
commands or statements in the PARM string.
The command source specified by a RUN FILE command may contain nested RUN FILE
commands to 16 levels.
On UNIX systems, an asterisk (*) can be used as the fileid specification for the system console/
standard input (stdin) device. The system console is the:
• Keyboard in interactive mode
or
• Standard input device in batch mode
Example
.RUN FILE LOGON;
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