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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag-and-drop design and powerful Extract-Tranform-Load (ETL) capabilities. This book shows and explains the new interactive features of Spoon, the revamped look and feel, and the newest features of the tool including transformations and jobs Executors and the invaluable Metadata Injection capability. We begin with the installation of PDI software and then move on to cover all the key PDI concepts. Each of the chapter introduces new features, enabling you to gradually get practicing with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kind of data manipulation and work with simple plain files. Then, the book teaches you how you can work with relational databases inside PDI. Moreover, you will be given a primer on data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. During the course of this book, you will be familiarized with its intuitive, graphical and drag-and-drop design environment. By the end of this book, you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements. Besides, your will be given best practices and advises for designing and deploying your projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Using the Pan and Kitchen utilities


Pan is a command-line program used to launch the transformations designed in Spoon. The counterpart to Pan is Kitchen, which allows you to run Jobs. In this first section, you will learn the basics about these utilities.

Running jobs and transformations

Kitchen, the program that executes Jobs from a Terminal window, comes in two versions:kitchen.bat and kitchen.sh. You will use one or the other depending on the platform—Windows or Unix-like systems respectively. Pan, the program that executes transformations from a Terminal window, also comes in two versions: pan.bat and pan.sh.

Note

You will find all these files—kitchen.bat, kitchen.sh, pan.bat, and pan.sh—in the PDI installation directory.

The simplest way to run a Job or Transformation with these utilities is just providing the full path of the kjb or ktr file that you intend to execute. You will execute Pan or Kitchen according to the following table:

Task

Windows

Unix-based system

Running a Transformation

pan...