You can use BTEQ's .IMPORT option to load data. This is very simple to use ,provided, your input file is in Indicdata or data format.

The syntax for this looks like following

.IMPORT DATA FILE = filename

using (:field1,:field2,:field3,....,:fieldn)
insert into targettable(column list)
values
(:field1,
:field2,
.....
.....
:fieldn);

You can learn more on BTEQ's Import and Export option from BTEQs reference Manual.
Wish you best of luck .

Hi Dude,
since u wanna load the data from txt file, i believe it should be in delimited fmt.
The following script uses ',' as field delimeter.
Also, its capable of loaded 'n' number of records.
Give it a try.


.LOGON demotdat/sarathy_user,*****;
.IMPORT VARTEXT ',' FILE=C:\TD\data\ABC.TXT;
.REPEAT *
USING
emp_no (VARCHAR(6)),
emp_name (VARCHAR(25)),
emp_street (VARCHAR(25)),
emp_city (VARCHAR(25))

INSERT INTO sarathy_db.emp
values
(
:emp_no,
:emp_name,
:emp_street,
:emp_city
);

.QUIT;

I have one more query here.
when we import data from file everytime a record is inserted into the table a display message for executing query is shown up in spool. If i have 1000 records in input file it resutls in 1000 display's (Total elapsed time was 0.13 seconds.)
Can anyone please help to suppress these display messages. Thanks in advance.

Comment on SwathyG post

We can load fixed length data file so long as text file and the column length are in sync.

For Swathy_Teradata post

use
.SET ERROROUT STDOUT

in your bteq script.
You could then redirect your output to a log file as in this case

/usr/bin/bteq < /home/sunopsis/util/scripts/test.bteq > /home/sunopsis/util/log/test.log

Hope this helps.

Vinay

Thanks Vinay but the issue still exists. .SET ERROROUT STDOUT is helpful only when there are error messages.
.REPEAT *
USING
emp_no (VARCHAR(6)),
emp_name (VARCHAR(25)),
emp_street (VARCHAR(25)),
emp_city (VARCHAR(25))

INSERT INTO sarathy_db.emp
values
(
:emp_no,
:emp_name,
:emp_street,
:emp_city
);
Above query in mainframes with 5 records in source file results in
*** Starting Row 0 at 12:32:37 on Tue Mar 27, 2007
*** Total elapsed time was 0.10 seconds.
*** Total elapsed time was 0.07 seconds.
*** Total elapsed time was 0.02 seconds.
*** Total elapsed time was 0.03 seconds.
*** Total elapsed time was 0.01 seconds.
*** Warning: Out of data.
*** Finished at 12:32:37 on Tue Mar 27, 2007
*** Total number of statements: 5, Accepted : 5, Rejected : 0

*** Total elapsed time was 0.25 seconds.

*** Total requests run successfully = 5
*** Successful requests per second = 20.395
In case the source file has 100 records then 100 messages corresponding to elapsed time are populated. I want only one response as
*** Total elapsed time was 0.25 seconds.

From your example it looks like you are running on windows, In case you are using unix for production, something like this might help ....

bteq < mybteq.btq 2>&1 | awk '/^BTEQ/,/Starting Row/ /Finished at/,/$$$$$$$$$$$$$/' >mybteq.log

Hi Swathi,
i don't know about mainframe BTEQ, but on Windows/Unix there are two solutions to suppress that "one output line per row":
- using more than 1 session
- using a ".PACK 1"

Dieter

Hi Swati,

.set quiet on might work for you.

Sharda

Does anybody know how to suppress the same messages on a mainframe BTEQ?

Thanks,

Fernando Urrutia

Hi,
Im trying to import data into tables from a file using BTEQ import.

im facing weird errors while doing this

Like:

if im using text file as input data file with ',' as delimiter as filed seperator im getting the error as below:

*** Failure 2673 The source parcel length does not match data that was defined.

or

if im using EXCEL file as input data file im getting the error as below:


*** Growing Buffer to 53200
*** Error: Import data size does not agree with byte length.
The cause may be:
1) IMPORT DATA vs. IMPORT REPORT
2) incorrect incoming data
3) import file has reached end-of-file.
*** Warning: Out of data.




please help me out by giving the syntax for BTEQ import using txt file as input data file and also the syntax if we use EXCEL file as the input data file


Also is there any specific format for the input data file for correct reading of data from it.
if so please give me the info about that.


Thanks in advance:)

Some solution found out for the above query(Post #16675):
I've used the text file with data in which i used ',' as the field seperator and also the datatypes for all the fields in the USING clause are changed to 'varchar' irrespective of their original datatypes:
The code looks like this:

.LOGON TDPP/login_name,password
.import vartext ',' file = d:\input file path.txt
.QUIET ON
.REPEAT *
USING COL1 (VARCHAR(2))
,COL12 (VARCHAR(1))
,COL13 (VARCHAR(56))

INSERT INTO table name
( COL11
,COL12
,COL13)
VALUES ( :COL11
,:COL12
,:COL13
.QUIT




the code also works with fields seperated with a tab.
but it works only for
vartext ' ' (in the 2nd line of code)
but doesnt work for
vartext '\t'