When you design and implement jobs and transformations in PDI, you not only want certain tasks to be accomplished, but also want a work that can be reused, easy to maintain, and more. This chapter explains several techniques meant to accomplish these objectives. We will cover the following topics:
- Using Kettle variables to give flexibility to your transformations
- Reusing part of your transformations using mappings
- Copying and getting rows as part of a process flow
- Iterating the execution of transformations
The basics about Spoon have already been covered. Therefore, in this chapter, we will not give much space to details such as how to configure a Text file input step. Instead, we will focus ...
