122 Unleashing DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
8.1 Overview of the ingest utility
To make mission-critical decisions in the business environment of today, data
warehouses must have data that is current and available 24x7. DB2 10 features
the ingest utility, a new data movement utility that meets these demanding
requirements and can be a key component of your extract, transform, and load
(ETL) operations.
The ingest utility is a high-speed, configurable, client-side DB2 utility. With its
multi-threaded architecture, the ingest utility can pump massive amounts of data
quickly and continuously into DB2 tables from files, or pipes, with minimal effect
on concurrent user workload and data server resources.
The ingest utility differs from other ...