Teradata TPump Command Input - Parallel Data Pump

Activity

Description

Support

Support commands establish the Teradata TPump sessions with Teradata Database and establish the operational support environment for Teradata TPump.

Support commands are not directly involved in specifying a Teradata TPump task.

Task

The Teradata TPump task commands specify the actual processing that takes place for each MultiLoad task.

The task commands, combined with Teradata SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements, are used to define Teradata TPump IMPORT and DELETE tasks.

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

Lets the form of the DATE data type specifications be defined for the Teradata TPump job

DISPLAY

Writes messages to the specified destination

ELSE (see IF, ELSE, and ENDIF)

Followed by commands and statements which execute when the preceding IF command is false

ENDIF (see IF, ELSE, and ENDIF)

Delimits the group of Teradata TPump commands and statements that were subject to previous IF or ELSE commands or both

IF (see IF, ELSE, and ENDIF)

When followed by a conditional expression, initiates execution of subsequent commands and statements

LOGDATA

Supplies parameters to the LOGMECH command beyond those needed by the logon mechanism, such as user ID and password, to successfully authenticate the user

LOGMECH

Identifies the appropriate logon mechanism by name

LOGOFF

Disconnects all active sessions and terminates Teradata TPump support on the client

LOGON

Specifies the LOGON string to be used in connecting all sessions established by Teradata TPump

LOGTABLE

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

NAME

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

ROUTE

Identifies the destination of output produced by the Teradata TPump support environment.

RUN FILE

Invokes the specified external source as the current source of commands and statements

SET

Assigns a data type and a value to a utility variable

SYSTEM

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

Defines a field of the data source record
Used with LAYOUT command

DML

Defines a label and error treatment option(s) for the Teradata SQL DML statement(s) following the DML command

END LOAD

Indicates completion of Teradata TPump command entries and initiates execution of the task

FILLER

Defines a field in the data source that is not sent to Teradata Database. Used with LAYOUT command

IMPORT

Identifies the data source, the layout, and the DML operation(s) to be performed, with optional conditions for performing these operations

LAYOUT

Introduces the record format of the data source to be used in the Teradata TPump task
This command is followed by a sequence or combination of FIELD, FILLER, and TABLE commands.

PARTITION

Establishes session partitions to transfer SQL requests to Teradata Database

TABLE

Identifies a table whose column names and data descriptions are used as the field names and data descriptions of the data source records
Used with LAYOUT command