You are already familiar with the log that PDI generates every time you run a Job or Transformation. In Spoon, you see it in the Logging
tab of the Execution Results
window. When launching a Job or Transformation with Pan/Kitchen, you see the log in the terminal.
In Chapter 2, Getting Started with Transformations, you also learned about the different levels o the log. In Spoon, you specify the level in the Log level
drop-down list inside the Options
box in the Run Options window. To do the same when using Pan/Kitchen, you append the
/level:<logging level>
option, where the logging level can be one of the following: Error
, Nothing
, Minimal
, Basic
, Detailed
, Debug
, or Rowlevel
.
The next sample screenshot shows you how to run a Job with minimal details in the log:
Setting the log level in Spoon
The following sample shows how you provide the same selection as an option in the Pan/Kitchen command line:
/level:Minimal
Besides sending the log to the...