All numeric
external data types (INTEGER, REAL, DECIMAL, ZONED) are interpreted as binary values.You can use the
FASTLOAD command and the DATALOAD command to load external binary values into database tables.DATALOAD TABLE hotel
hno 01-04 INTEGER
name 09-18
zip 20-25 DECIMAL
city 27-36
price 41-44 REAL
INFILE 'hotel.data' FORMATTED
Prerequisites
You must specify the source data stream in the load command with either the
FORMATTED format or the FORMATTED BINARY format. The data stream must be coded in binary.