Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Importing User Information into the NDS Database
Quote The default characters for delimiters are quotation marks (“ ”). If you don’t
have embedded quotation marks in fields in your database and you generate
the data file with quote delimiters, no parameter is needed.
Specifies the character used to delimit fields when exporting data to the
data file. You might want to change the delimiter from quotation marks to
different characters if your data has embedded quotation marks and you
don’t want to delete them.
For example, if you have any embedded quotation marks in fields in your
database, you could export data using carets (^) as the delimiter. You would
enter QUOTE=^ as the quote parameter.
Replace value Allows you to overwrite or add data to multivalue properties.
For example, to import new telephone numbers to User properties without
saving the existing numbers, type REPLACE VALUE=Y.
The default is “N,” so if you don’t want data to be added to multivalued
properties, no parameter is needed. You do not need to set this parameter
for single-value fields, because the new value automatically overwrites the
existing value.
Separator The default separator is a comma. If you have no embedded commas in
fields in your database and you generate the data file with comma
separators, no parameter is needed.
If the fields in your database have embedded punctuation, (such as
commas), you should not use the same punctuation as field separators when
you export the data to the data file. If you do, UIMPORT won’t be able to
distinguish between new fields and embedded punctuation. Instead, use a
different character as the separator.
Specifies the character used to separate fields when exporting data to the
data file.
For example, if you have any embedded commas in fields in your database,
you could export the data using a semicolon (;) as the field separator. You
would enter SEPARATOR=; as a control parameter.
Table 4-1 UIMPORT Control Parameters
Control Parameter Explanation