Teradata Parallel Data Pump

Chapter 1: Overview
Teradata TPump Commands
Table 8: Teradata TPump Commands
Activity
Teradata
TPump
Command
Function
Support ACCEPT Allows the value of one or more utility variables to be accepted from either a file or an
environment variable.
DATEFORM
DISPLAY
ELSE (see
IF, ELSE, and
ENDIF)
ENDIF (see
IF, ELSE, and
ENDIF)
IF (see IF,
ELSE, and
ENDIF)
LOGDATA
LOGMECH
LOGOFF
LOGON
LOGTABLE
NAME
ROUTE
RUN FILE
SET
SYSTEM
Lets the form of the DATE data type specifications be defined for the Teradata TPump job
Writes messages to the specified destination
Followed by commands and statements which execute when the preceding IF command is false
Delimits the group of Teradata TPump commands and statements that were subject to previous
IF or ELSE commands or both
When followed by a conditional expression, initiates execution of subsequent commands and
statements
Supplies parameters to the LOGMECH command beyond those needed by the logon
mechanism, such as user ID and password, to successfully authenticate the user
Identifies the appropriate logon mechanism by name
Disconnects all active sessions and terminates Teradata TPump support on the client
Specifies the LOGON string to be used in connecting all sessions established by Teradata TPump
Identifies the table to be used for journaling checkpoint information required for safe, automatic
restart of the Teradata TPump support environment in the event of a client or Teradata Database
hardware platform failure
Sets the variable SYSJOBNAME to the jobname string specified. The jobname string can be up to
16 bytes in length and can contain kanji characters
Identifies the destination of output produced by the Teradata TPump support environment.
Invokes the specified external source as the current source of commands and statements
Assigns a data type and a value to a utility variable
Suspends Teradata TPump to issue commands to the local operating system.
Task BEGIN LOAD Specifies the kind of Teradata TPump task to be executed, the target tables to be used, and the
parameters for executing the task
FIELD
DML
END LOAD
Defines a field of the data source record
Used with LAYOUT command
Defines a label and error treatment option(s) for the Teradata SQL DML statement(s) following
the DML command
Indicates completion of Teradata TPump command entries and initiates execution of the task
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