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An administrator might configure some parameters that control the behavior of data pipelines to modify the default behavior across the System or specific nodes. You can use the ALTER SYSTEM ALTER CONFIG SQL statements to control the configuration parameters. Syntax
SQL
ALTER SYSTEM ALTER CONFIG SET 'sql.pipelineparameters.parameter_name' 'parameter_value';
ParameterData TypeDescription
parameter_namestringThe name of the pipeline parameter, either general or specific to the BINARY format.
parameter_valuestringThe value for the pipeline parameter.
General Parameters
General Parameter NameDefaultData TypeRequired Value and Description
sql.pipelineparameters.targetTimePerExtractorTask600UINT64_T
Target execution time in seconds for run_extractor tasks for file loads.
sql.pipelineparameters.defaultPartitionsPerExtractorTask-1INTNumber of partitions per task.
If you set this parameter to -1, the number is based on available CPU cores.
sql.pipelineparameters.defaultExtractorCores-1INTNumber of cores to use in a task.
If you set this parameter to -1, the number is based on available CPU cores.
Binary Format Parameters You can modify these parameters to change the default behavior of the BINARY data format extraction.
Binary Format Parameter NameDefaultData TypeRequired Value and Description
sql.pipelineparameters.extract.binary.defaultEndiannessbigstringThe endianness of transforms when you do not specify it in another way.
Supported values are big or little.
sql.pipelineparameters.extract.binary.defaultCharsetibm1047stringDetermines the default character set to use when you load data in the BINARY format.
sql.pipelineparameters.extract.binary.defaultAutoTrimPaddingtrueBooleanDetermines the default for whether a padding character should be trimmed when decoding data in the BINARY format to a string.
sql.pipelineparameters.extract.binary.defaultPaddingCharacter’ ‘CHARDetermines the default padding character to trim from the end of a string when decoding data in the BINARY format.
This parameter is effective only if the extract.binary.defaultAutoTrimPadding parameter is set to true.
Examples Set the target execution time for the extractor task to 600 seconds.
SQL
ALTER SYSTEM ALTER CONFIG SET 'sql.pipelineparameters.targetTimePerExtractorTask' 600;
Set the default endianness of transforms to little endian for the BINARY extract.
SQL
ALTER SYSTEM ALTER CONFIG SET 'sql.pipelineparameters.extract.binary.defaultEndianness' 'little';
The configuration values only go into effect after the ALTER SQL statement succeeds and you restart the affected nodes.
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Last modified on May 27, 2026