Chapter 11. Creating Advanced Transformations and Jobs
Iterating over a list of items (files, people, codes, and so on), implementing a process flow, and developing a reusable procedure are very common requirements in real world projects. Implementing these kind of needs in PDI is not intuitive, but it’s not complicate either. It’s just a matter of learning the right techniques that we will see in this chapter. Among other things, you will learn to implement process flows, nest jobs, and iterate the execution of jobs and transformations.
Enhancing your processes with the use of variables
For the tutorials in this chapter, you will take as your starting point a Time for action tutorial you did in Chapter 2 that involves updating a file with news ...
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