When you create a FastExport connection, you select the PowerCenter code page that FastExport uses to read Teradata sources. FastExport uses the fexpcodepagemapfile.dat file to map the PowerCenter code page name to the Teradata character set that FastExport supports. For example, if you select “MS Windows Latin 1 (ANSI), superset of Latin1” as the connection code page, PowerCenter uses the code page named “MS1252” while Teradata uses the character set named “Latin1252_0A.”
The fexpcodepagemapfile.dat file maps the most appropriate Teradata character sets to PowerCenter code pages as specified in
Teradata International Character Set Support
. Teradata character sets must be enabled on the database before you can use them. By default, only the following character sets are enabled on a Teradata database:
ASCII
EBCDIC
UTF8
UTF16
If the PowerCenter code page you select in the FastExport connection does not exist in fexpcodepagemapfile.dat or if the assigned Teradata character set is not enabled on the database, the Integration Service fails the session.
The fexpcodepagemapfile.dat file is located in
<PowerCenter installation directory>\server\bin
. Verify that the file includes the PowerCenter code page you select in the FastExport connection and that the assigned character set is enabled on the Teradata database. You can use a text editor to assign additional PowerCenter code pages to Teradata character sets or to modify the existing mappings. Assign a PowerCenter code page to a Teradata character set by entering the names on a single line in the following format:
Use the following rules and guidelines when you edit the file:
To designate a comment, start a line with an exclamation point (!).
A line cannot consist of blank spaces or tab characters only.
If the file maps a single PowerCenter code page to multiple Teradata character sets, FastExport uses the character set that is assigned last in the file.
Teradata does not distinguish between Big Endian and Lower Endian for UTF-16 encoding of Unicode. If you process UTF-16 characters, select the “UTF-16 encoding of Unicode (Platform Endian)” code page when creating the FastExport connection in the Workflow Manager.