Usage Notes - Parallel Data Pump

Teradata Parallel Data Pump Reference

Product
Parallel Data Pump
Release Number
16.10
Published
May 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-05-22
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

Although there is no explicit limit to the number of LAYOUT commands allowed, there is a practical limit. The implied limit on usable LAYOUT commands per Teradata TPump load is 100, because Teradata TPump allows up to 100 IMPORT commands within a load, and each IMPORT can reference only one LAYOUT.

A LAYOUT command must be immediately followed by a combination of FIELD, FILLER, and/or TABLE commands. This sequence of commands, referenced by the layoutname, may describe one or more record formats contained in one or more client data sources (see redefinition options for FIELD, FILLER, and TABLE). The LAYOUT command sequence is terminated by the first subsequent command that is not a FIELD, FILLER, or TABLE command.

A layoutname may be used by one or more Teradata TPump tasks (delimited by BEGIN LOAD and END LOAD) in a single job step and must be defined prior to any IMPORT commands that reference it. All IMPORT commands in a single Teradata TPump task must reference the same layoutname in the LAYOUT clause.

If a field-level MACROCHARSSET is present for a field of character type, TPump generates a CHARACTER SET clause in the macro creation DDL for the corresponding field using the specified character set.

If no field-level MACROCHARSET is present for a field of character type, but a layout/schema-level MACROCHARSET is present, TPump generates a CHARACTER SET clause in the macro creation DDL for the corresponding field using the specified layout character set.

Absent user specification, the following clause will be generated for each character macro parameter CHARACTER SET LATIN, when the client session character set is:
  • Is ASCII
  • Is EBCDIC
  • Ends in _0A or _0E
  • Ends in _zx, where “z” is other than 0 (digit zero)
  • Ends in _zx, where “z” is other than 0 (digit zero)
  • Does not end in _zx or _zxx, except for KATAKANAEBCDIC, UTF-8, or UTF-16

TPump generates CHARACTER SET UNICODE in all other cases.