Data Movement Utilities Guide and Reference

Using AutoLoader

Before Using AutoLoader

Before invoking the AutoLoader utility:

1. Create a temporary working directory. This directory must be accessible to all participating database partitions. It is from this directory that you will invoke the AutoLoader utility.
2. Modify your AutoLoader configuration file (see Example AutoLoader Session), and copy it into the working directory.
3. Ensure that the svcename database manager configuration parameter and the DB2COMM profile registry variable are set correctly. This is important, because the AutoLoader utility makes remote database connections from the working partition (from which you invoke the utility) to the database partitions (on which the table is defined).

Invoking AutoLoader

The AutoLoader utility is invoked through the db2atld command:

   db2atld [-config config_file] [-restart] [-terminate]
 
      where "-config config_file" specifies an AutoLoader configuration file
      (the default is "autoloader.cfg"); "-restart" requests restart
      of an interrupted AutoLoader operation (the configuration file
      does not need to be modified to restart); and "-terminate" requests
      termination of an interrupted AutoLoader operation.

A sample configuration file, autoloader.cfg, can be found in the sqllib/samples/autoloader directory. It is recommended that you copy, rename, and customize the sample configuration file according to the operations that you want the utility to perform.