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Data streams can have the following formats:

You can specify the format in commands to load an unload as a processing specification for the data stream (syntax rule stream_format_spec).

The SAP DB Loader requires that data streams with clear text values have the format COMPRESSED. If this is not the case, you must explicitly specify the FORMATTED format or, with binary coded data streams, FORMATTED BINARY format in the load or unload command.