HOWTO: SAP Sybase IQ: Grant bulk copy to a user (bulk read from a client file)

We need to grant permission for the user to use readclientfile and we need to turn that option on if the application doesn’t do it itself.

grant readclientfile to testuser;
set option testuser.allow_read_client_file=on;
commit;

Oddly enough we can grant readclientfile to a group and turn on the option to a group but IQ will silently ignore the group option.

This works:

grant readclientfile to testgroup;
set option testuser.allow_read_client_file=on;
commit;

This doesn’t work:

grant readclientfile to testgroup;
set option testgroup.allow_read_client_file=on;
commit;

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