Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

Executing jobs in an iterative way

For a long time, PDI developers used to ask, can I run a Job inside a transformation? The answer was definitely a no. In order to solve the requirement, the solution was to create jobs and transformations nested in complex ways. Now you can avoid all that unnecessary work by looping jobs in an easier way. There is a Job Executor step—analogous to the Transformation Executor that you know—that can easily be configured to loop over the rows in a dataset.