Customizing the IQ Loader data format

The IQ Loader Interface uses default values for delimiters, null handling, and character sets when writing to the data file or pipe, and when generating the LOAD TABLE script. You can specify default values in the ETL Server INI files as follows:

Group

Key

Values

Default

Description

iq_loader

rowdelim

Any string. '\n' for line break.

' \n '

Line delimiter

iq_loader

coldelim

Any string. '\t' for tab.

' |@#& '

Column delimiter

iq_loader

nullreplace

Any string. If empty, NULL clause is not added to the load script.

' [NULL] '

String used for NULL values

iq_loader

characterset

Any character set supported by IQ.

' ' (=auto)

Encoding used in data file