System information and Kettle variables

There is also the possibility to obtain system information (for example, the current date or the JVM free memory). You can pick any of these and add them as a part of your flow. You can do so by using the Get System Info step. Take a look at the following screenshot:

Getting system information

In this case, besides all of the fields coming from the input file, you will see a new field, named today, containing the system date. If you run a preview of the preceding step, you will see something like the following:

Previewing data with system information

As you can see, the value is repeated in all rows. ...

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