The onpload utility uses different set routines, called drivers, to handle different file formats. For example, the delimited driver handles delimited file formats. The routines in a driver process data unloaded from or loaded into the data file. The onpload utility includes drivers for widely used data-file formats. You can prepare additional, custom drivers for other formats and bind them into the onpload shared library. The set of available drivers is stored in the driver table.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| drivername | CHAR(18) | Name of driver (primary key) |
| drivertype | CHAR(1) | Data-file format: Fixed, Delimited, COBOL |
You can use the procedure that Appendix H describes to build custom drivers. A custom driver takes data from a file and constructs input for onpload that is in a format that onpload recognizes (Fixed, Delimited, COBOL).
To add custom drivers to the driver table, see Drivers Window.
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