34 Moving Data Across the DB2 Family
3.1 Overview of the Unload utility
The Unload utility is an alternative and a replacement offered with DB2 for z/OS V7 to the
REORG UNLOAD EXTERNAL function. With Unload, you can unload rows from an entire
table space or select specific partitions or tables to unload. You can also select columns by
using the field specification list. If a table space is partitioned, you can unload all of the
selected partitions into a single data set, or you can unload each partition in parallel into
physically distinct data sets.
Unload can be used to unload data from one or more source objects to one or more BSAM
sequential data sets in external formats. The source can be DB2 table spaces, DB2 Image
Copy data sets.
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