BTEQ Large File (LF) Support | Basic Teradata Query - BTEQ Large File (LF) Support - Basic Teradata Query

Basic Teradata® Query Reference - 20.00

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Lake
VMware
Product
Basic Teradata Query
Release Number
20.00
Published
October 2023
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en-US
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2025-04-02
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

LF support is used by 32-bit BTEQ on all supported UNIX platforms.

There are two exceptions to the 32-bit BTEQ LF support. 32-bit BTEQ fails if either of the following conditions occurs:
  • The I/O Encoding used is UTF16, and a Large RUN file is being read.
  • The Session CharSet is UTF16, and an IMPORT command has been used where a large TEXT (REPORT or VARTEXT) format data file has been specified.

In both the these cases, BTEQ uses 32-bit Shared ICU Libraries for Teradata (TDICU) functions to handle the respective files. Since the 32-bit TDICU does not support LF, BTEQ fails.