Wildcard

Rather than building your own script, import.exe can be passed a wild card to build the script. Execute the import utility by specifying the path to import.exe located in the FAIRCOM\ODBC\32bit directory and pass -f *.dat as follows:

C:\FAIRCOM\ODBC\32bit\import -f *.dat

Passing -f *.dat tells import.exe to create the Data Dictionary (CTSYSCAT.FCS) and add all of the files with the “.dat” extension located in the current directory. When the import utility sees the -f switch, it also creates a text-based import file, IMPORT.TXT, listing all the data files located in the current directory. This script can be used by import.exe to re-create the dictionary.