User-Defined Session Character Sets - MultiLoad

Teradata MultiLoad Reference

Product
MultiLoad
Release Number
16.10
Published
May 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-07-11
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

Teradata MultiLoad also supports user-defined session character sets when the character sets defined for Teradata Database are not appropriate for the site. Use a session character set that matches the data, such as:

  • EBCDIC037_0E for mainframe-attached clients (for the United States or Canada)
  • LATIN1_0A, LATIN9_0A (for Western European languages) or UTF-8 for UNIX system clients
  • LATIN1252_0A for Western European Windows clients

Do not use ASCII or EBCDIC session character sets.

For information on defining a character set, see SQL Data Definition Language (B035-1184).