# ADABAS file unload

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adabas-file-unload/99874>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Adabas, Adabas-on-Mainframes, Adabas-Utilities-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [March 13, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adabas-file-unload/99874 "2012-03-13T17:16:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![srij\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@srij\_p](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/srij_p)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adabas-file-unload/99874/1 "2012-03-13T17:16:48Z")

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I have been trying to unload an ADABAS file using ADAUTIL. While trying to DECOMPRESS, the syntax used is -  
ADACMP DECOMPRESS INFILE = # (# is the File we are trying to unload). This results in all the records being written in the error file. The error is due to a NC (Null Compression) field present in the file.

I would like to know, how can I unload an ADABAS file, having a NC field?

One probable solution is to use FORMAT parameter, but that gives an extracted file with a different format.

How can we unload an ADABAS file, having NC field, without using FORMAT parameter?

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**Author:** ![jimmy\_helu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jimmy\_helu](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/jimmy_helu)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adabas-file-unload/99874/2 "2012-08-25T20:38:09Z")

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I suspect this is completely readable - it is just not text. Look at the record in hex.

Your statistics show no records were read/written. Possibly because of syntactically correct jcl and/or control statements that are still not what you want.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adabas-file-unload/99874/3 "2012-08-25T22:08:24Z")

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Please open an incident with Software AG support for this.

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**Author:** ![srij\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@srij\_p](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/srij_p)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adabas-file-unload/99874/4 "2012-08-27T11:06:31Z")

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Yes. The option NC gives the correct data in hex.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adabas-file-unload/99874/5 "2021-04-02T15:01:38Z")

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