Re: ARCUNLOAD problem (from Jake Salomon!)
Posted in 1998
Topics: Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion
Hi, Jake. June here.
> Greetings family, Jake Salomon here!
>
> I ran into a bit of trouble last night using the ARCUNLOAD program. This
> is the utility that allows retrieval from tape of a single table.
>
> The unload ran for 13 hours and returned "successful". However, I cannot
> seem to locate the output unload file! It is neither in the current
> directory, /tmp, nor the temp_file or output_file given as parameters.
> These last 2 files are not empty, but are filled with a mixture of binary
> and ascii characters that doesn't resemble an unload file at all. They
> are also identical!
The unload file IS a binary file -- it's an onunload file, not an ASCII unload
file. You must use onload to re-load it into your OnLine instance. It should
be in your output_file, which, incidentally, should not be identical to your
temp_file.
June
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