Load table contents in binary format with PROUTIL
- Last Updated: February 11, 2026
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- Version 13.0
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Use the following syntax to perform a binary load:
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In the syntax, db-name specifies the database
where you want to load the data. To load one file, specify filename;
to load multiple binary dump files, specify -dumplist dumpfile where dumpfile contains
a list of binary dump files. You can chose to build indexes on your
data as it loads with the build indexes parameter.
For complete syntax details, see PROUTIL LOAD qualifier.
To prevent user logins from interfering with mass loads, run PROUTIL in database maintenance mode. For more information, see Restrict database access.
When specifying multiple files to load, you can use a dump file created with a multi-threaded binary dump, or create your own. A dump file contains a list of fully qualified file names of binary dump files. This example shows the contents of the file order.dmp_lst:
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To load all the files listed in order.dmp_lst into a database named newdb, issue the following command:
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Using the -dumplist parameter is the equivalent
of issuing 6 individual load commands. For example:
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When the load procedure finishes, it reports the number of records that were loaded.