Transferring Data with the Load and Unload Facility

The data Load and Unload facility provides a simple two-stage process for copying data by name between databases with a similar, but not necessarily identical structures:

Unload	Exports database tables to an ASCII file, named database_name.txt
Load	Loads table data from an ASCII file, created by the data Unload utility, into the target database

This section is divided into the following topics:

Unloading Data from the Source Database
Loading Data into the Target Database
Understanding the Data Format